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Our waiting was finally over. After three years of trying, we were finally met with a positive pregnancy test. My husband made me re-do the pee stick every morning for three days to be sure. We were so excited, but waited to tell our families until nine weeks.I knew that at eight weeks we were safe, right? When we reached 12 weeks, I was even more confident. By 20 weeks, seeing our little boy squirm and wiggle in perfect anatomy and size made me feel so safe and secure in our future as a family of three. I was filled with confidence and love during our maternity shoot and the baby shower at 30 weeks. I waited to post those beautiful pictures to ...
Holden's pregnancy was like many first pregnancies. We were thrilled and couldn't wait to meet our first baby. Holden and I were both very healthy and we naively believed nothing could go wrong. A nursery was lovingly painted and created, books were read together, my diet was the healthiest it had ever been, and we enjoyed reading any and all pregnancy books and updates on our phones' pregnancy apps. We were so grateful God was giving us a chance to be parents to a son. Life was perfect.
On August 28, 2010, Chet and I were filled with joy and hopeful nerves as we realized I must be in "real" labor. After a call to L&D, we jumped in the ...
On July 20, 2018, our third child was due to join our family. Her room was pink, her brothers were excited, her Dad and I were ecstatic for a girl. It felt so different this time. We had all the ideas of bows and frilly things, and had decided exactly what her wedding day would be like.
Our firstborn came at 31 weeks after a quick and scary bout with preeclampsia, so this pregnancy they watched my blood pressure carefully. On July 6th, I was 38 weeks, and that afternoon I got a high blood pressure reading on my cuff at home. I called the nurse and she asked me to come to the hospital. However, in the hospital that day, my blood pressure ...
My husband, Josh, and I found out we were pregnant shortly after Thanksgiving in 2019. To be quite honest, I was very anxious and fearful about it because this child would be my fourth C-Section, and we had experienced complications with our third son that could affect this pregnancy. I brought my fears before the Lord (at the time I was mostly fearful that I would die in childbirth, leaving my husband and children behind) and He comforted me greatly as I read in 1 Thessalonians 5: 9-11.“For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live ...
In the midst of my darkest valleys, our faithful God has shown me His grace in the most surreal ways that I have ever experienced.
As a young wife, I was so excited as I anticipated the moment when I would be blessed with a pregnancy. My husband and I prayerfully considered our readiness for parenthood and trusted that the Lord would provide a child in the near future. Shortly after beginning to mentally prepare for motherhood, our first baby came into our lives. I became pregnant with our baby in April, 2019 and carried her for eight months on this earth. I embraced the pregnancy and was overcome with joy as I awaited her birth.
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In March 2019, Mike and I found out that we were pregnant. We were ecstatic. I had suffered a miscarriage in June of 2018, and I felt really hopeful about this pregnancy. My due date was November 17, 2019. We were living in Florida, and we quickly decided to move back to Maryland, where I am originally from, to be around my family and friends who would be playing a huge role in our child's life.
We moved back to Maryland in June and started buying things for the baby's room little by little. It was so fun for us. Every weekend we had a project to work on. Then, we found out that we would be having a little boy. We started going crazy buying ...
In December 2018, after an early loss in 2017 and one long year of fertility treatments, we were pregnant. I remember like it was yesterday—waking up that morning to take my test on the scheduled day per my treatments. Honestly, I expected it to be negative, but it wasn’t. Finally, we were going to have another baby.
Scan after scan our little girl continued to grow, her heart beating strong. She always measured a little further behind, but no one ever showed too much concern. We went back and forth on a name for her. We allowed our daughters to help pick a name. At first, they chose Princess Flower. Of course, that was quickly vetoed. ...
We both heard it clearly: God’s call on our lives to be parents. We felt hopeful, grateful, and a little scared. In time, we questioned those words “parents” repeatedly and even doubted our ability to hear God accurately or trust Him, because what we didn’t know and barely understood was that our first child, Isaac, would be the child we wouldn’t raise here on earth.
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My husband, Eric, and I were hopeful when we started planning for a family. Getting pregnant proved difficult. My sister and friends announced their pregnancies, threw baby showers, and grew beautiful, round bellies, while I got my period month after month and ...
My husband and I were expecting a baby girl just before Thanksgiving this year; she was due on November 26. We had already been blessed with a little boy first, our adorable 2-year-old son, Peter, and were excited to have a little girl second. At the first trimester genetic screening, the doctors informed us of some physical abnormalities they were seeing. Since our son had no such abnormalities, and my pregnancy, labor, and delivery with him were free from complications, it was a surprise to receive the news. They did mention that because our baby was so small at that age everything could look normal during the next screening. Especially after a ...
In June of 2017, I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child. My husband and I were so excited to add to our family. My oldest was hoping for a baby sister as she has two younger brothers. Our excitement quickly turned to heartache when an ultrasound at 12 weeks revealed that our baby had a cystic hygroma and the start of hydrops.
A blood test revealed that our unborn baby girl had Turner syndrome, and because of the complications that she was presenting, she only had a 1% chance of making it to birth. We decided that her name was going to be Aletheia (which means truth) Hope Arete (which means virtue). I knew I would need to cling ...
