Author’s Note: This post contains mention of pregnancy after loss. If that’s not something you want to read about right now, feel free to skip this post. A rainbow baby is a term to describe a baby born after loss. Just like a rainbow after a storm symbolizes hope, a rainbow baby is the peace […]
My chemical pregnancy. I was convinced I was going to get pregnant the month after my miscarriage, but I didn’t. In the second month, I was convinced I wasn’t pregnant. But then I took a pregnancy test and got a very, very faint second line. I thought it was a fluke. I didn’t tell anyone
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Trigger Warning: This article discusses miscarriage and pregnancy loss. After my ectopic pregnancy, I remember someone consoling us by telling us we had a little baby in heaven. Up until that point, I hadn’t thought much about the baby. I hadn’t known I was pregnant until I found out that the pregnancy was nonviable, so
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I write this story, not because it’s an unusual story, but because it is such a common story. This is not the story I planned to write. I wanted to write another pregnancy success story about my miracle, a rainbow baby after an ectopic pregnancy. But this is the story I was given. In the
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I am not a doctor or a nutritionist. I am simply a woman on the internet who got diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I want to share what I learned through the experience and give some tips to others who may be in the same position. I did not expect to get gestational diabetes. I was
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Dealing with Pregnancy Anxiety After dreaming about and anticipating pregnancy for three and a half years (read our infertility story), when I finally got pregnant, it was not anything like I thought it would be. As an infertile person who deeply desired to be pregnant, I had romanticized it. What I fantasized about was the
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My husband and I went through three and half years of infertility before conceiving our first child. You can read the full story about that here. I was so happy and thrilled to finally be a mother, but the lifestyle change was a rough adjustment for me and my husband. Working full-time on top of
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