Athena

Early Miscarriage at 7 weeks on June 13th, 2008

Sidney, Australia

A Journey of Loss and Hope and a little Miracle

I’m lying on a squeaky bed. I can feel the metal bars across my back on the worn out thin mattress and I can smell the crispness of potent detergent in the sheets. I am being rolled along a corridor and all I can see is the dirty sealing and the lights flashing as I go past. I hear people dash from door to door; their blue, white and pink uniforms flash before me. One of the lights somewhere needs its bulb changed as all I can hear is the buzzing and buzzing, fading, fading. Welcome to day surgery Athena. The first operation in my life, ever. I was always a healthy kid, even as adventurous as I was; I never had any bumps or broken bones. But today at 32 years old, I was having a laparoscopy. In layman’s terms, 4 probes. One through the belly button, 2 above the groin and one conveniently in my vagina. One of the probes was thick enough to have the tiniest of cameras attached to it. My Fertility Specialist wanted to take a look inside my uterus and see whether there was anything to explain my infertility. Infertility - the word I had become quite accustomed to now for nearly 2 years. Today though was not the happy ending story. There’s another 4 years to this tale of eventually holding my child in my arms.

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Kelly

Pumpkin lost December 17th, 2009

Little Longhorn lost June 23rd, 2010

Fort Hood, Texas

My husband Justin and I got married in August of 2008, and we were so happy to start our life together! In January of 2009, Justin decided to join the Army, and I couldn't have been more proud of him. He went off to Basic Training, followed by 4 months of technical schooling. During his time at school, I spent my weekends making the 4 hour drive to visit and to try to start our family. We did the best we were able to with having no control of our schedule! In September of 2010 we moved to our first duty station - Fort Hood, Texas. It was the start of a new chapter for us, and we were so ready for whatever came our way.

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Peggy

Eight First Trimester Miscarriages

Farmington Hills, MI

I will keep this on the short side because it is a story that spanned 9 years. We found out we were pregnant for the first time in December of 1998 after being married for just over a year. Since it was December, we figured Christmas was the perfect time to tell our families and we were so excited and bursting to tell them. 

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 Betsy

Mom to Baby November

Baby March

and Baby August

Denham Springs, LA

After five happy years of marriage, my husband Jason and I decided that it was time to expand our family.  Boy, were we surprised when I got pregnant immediately!  I got my BFP on a Saturday morning.  We and I were both standing in the bathroom, watching as the two lines began to materialize on the test.  We were nervous but excited!  I called my OB and scheduled my first appointment.  It was basically a consult visit.  I remember sitting in an office to find out what insurance would cover, then having bloodwork drawn.  I signed all sorts of forms.  We left with hospital information packets and formula samples.  We were on Cloud 9!

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Jennifer

Mom to Angel Baby Harlan

November 30, 2009

My husband and I have been trying to have a baby nearing for well over two years. Everyone around us was having no difficulties in conceiving. After many frustrating months filled with disappointment, I finally saw those two beautiful pink lines on October 9, 2009. We finally were expecting our long awaited bundle of joy.

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Bryce

Mom to Kaden Nathanie

May 1, 2010

Sacramento, California

March 10, 2010: It was a Wednesday morning, when I started thinking. I thought about how I had been having a hard time making it from breakfast to lunch without a snack in between. I thought about how I had recently felt the need to nap everyday with my 8 month old. I thought about how I had cut back to 1 cup of coffee in the morning instead of my usual 3. Then I thought about the last time that all these things happened...so I took a pregnancy test. I had to take 2 tests before I truly believed, I'm pregnant...again! This was an unexpected, but nonetheless, exciting surprise. Once we got over the initial shock and worry of having a 16 month old and a newborn, we were nothing short of ecstatic about the new baby we would soon welcome.

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Colleen

Four First Trimester Miscarriages

Scottsdale, AZ

I got my first positive pregnancy test in January of 2009, two days after my birthday. My husband and I were not trying to get pregnant, but not being overly diligent about preventing it either. I was 26 and he was 29, and we were planning to wait another year or two to start trying, but when the test came back positive, we were happy and relieved to not be going through the fertility problems a couple people we know were going through. I lost that pregnancy at 7 weeks, in February. I was willing to chalk it up to paying my statistical dues.

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Andrea

Mom to Lucas Peter

Born December 1st, 2009, Passed December 25th, 2009

Keswick, Ontario

I found out that I was pregnant on April 15^th 2009. My husband and I were completely shocked and delighted because we had only just started trying the month earlier. 

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Heidi

Mom to Twins

April 18, 2008

While it was still dark the morning of March 19, I woke my husband up to the sight of a positive pregnancy test.

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Miranda

Mom to Baby Bean

Miscarried on May 17, 2009

Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

My husband and I started trying to get pregnant the second we got married on October 31, 2008. We weren't putting much pressure on ourselves, just going about our lives and figuring eventually we would get pregnant.

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 Lacie

Mom to Jack Conover

Stillborn on September 6th, 2010

Collinsville, Oklahoma

Jack Conover was stillborn at 31 weeks on September 6, 2010. Would I have ever thought it would happen to me? I didn't. I had a perfect pregnancy. I was healthy, hardly ever uncomfortable and no complications. Jack was stillborn due to a true knot in his umbilical cord. He was perfect in every way. His skin was so pink, he had a head full of dark hair, and the biggest hands and feet you'd ever seen on something so tiny! Sometimes it's still hard to believe what happened.

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Patricia

Mom of Two Angel Babies

Baby "A" Miscarried February 24th, 2010

Baby "L dot" Miscarried June 30th, 2010

Ontario, Canada

My Husband Josh and I were childhood sweethearts. We started dating when we were 19 and he proposed to me in April of 2008. We got married that winter in January of 2009. We decided to start trying in November of 2009. I immediately went off Birth Control pills that day. It took a couple of months but on February 20^th of 2010 my husband and I were thrilled to find out we were expecting. I immediately made my first appointment with the dr and she sent me for bloodwork. My beta levels came back the next day. They were only at 20. My dr said it could have been because I was either really early or that I could be having a miscarriage. Three days later my husband and I were out for breakfast when I knew something just wasn’t right. I excused myself to use the bathroom where I had noticed I was bleeding. My husband then took me to the ER where they confirmed that my beta levels had dropped to 17 and told me that I had indeed had a miscarriage. They told me to come back in a week if the bleeding continued. It stopped after 3 days.I was 6 weeks along.

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Jan

Mom to Baby Smith, died on July 2nd, 2008 at 9 weeks

Angel Smith, died on September 24th, 2009 at 8 1/2 weeks, Carley's twin

Carley Noel Smith, died on November 20th, 2009 at 18 1/2 weeks

Scottsburg, VA

My big story is my twins. I found out I was pregnant with the twins on August 10, 2009 my 2nd wedding anniversary. We were so happy and I was SO SCARED. Because of losing the baby the year before. I waited till I was almost 11 weeks before I went to the Dr for my first appointment just because I was scared and wanted to allow enough time for them to grow and be sure we saw a heart beat. Well I was nervous so bad, and my mom went with me. I closed my eyes and ears until the ultrasound tech tap me on my leg and told me to open my eyes and see my baby. There she was just jumping all around in her sac. But I could also see off to the side there was another sac and there was no movement and not really a shape of a baby. Sure enough I had lost another baby. But they told me that the other twin would be fine I would go through "Vanishing Twin Syndrome" and the other baby should be good.

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Jaime

Miscarriage at 5 weeks, June 2000

Miscarriage at 5 weeks, June 2009

Mom to Sydney Alexis, born at 20 weeks on February 10th, 2009

Fenton, MO

I always knew I wanted to be a mom.  When my husband Eric and I got married in 1998, we were 19 and 20 and he was still in college so we thought we would wait until he finished school to have a baby.  I had always had irregular cycles so I had a feeling it wouldn't be easy for me to get pregnant.  We both wanted to have four children, so we hoped that it wouldn't be too difficult for us to conceive.

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Merle

Mom to Hope, miscarried on October 30, 2009

and Luke, born still on July 26, 2010

Cypress, Texas
 

Everything begins when I met my better half James in 2004 and got hitched on April 14, 2007. We discussed how we wanted a family down the road, James wanted to wait five years before trying to start a family and I wanted to wait two. In this case I won because on September 6, 2009, I was late on my period. I was sick the week prior to that and had been on antibiotics so I figured that is what caused my period to be late.

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Sheri

Mom to Oliva born still on March 19, 2010

Ontario, Canada

Olivia's story:

In October 2009 we became pregnant with a July 2010 due date. This was our first time pregnant and we were overwhelmed with the news. As the weeks passed and the baby grew, so did our acceptance of what was about to happen. It was completely surreal until the day we heard her heartbeat through the Doppler, and then we knew there was no turning back. Everything was progressing to plan and we travelled to Los Cabos, Mexico in February for a babymoon to celebrate our last months together as a childless couple.

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Marie

Mom to Dumpling lost in December 2008

Perogee lost in April 2009

Snowflake lost in May 2009

Canadian Embassy, Moscow

Still a Woman?

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Cathy

Mom to Makinsey Lynn

Born May 28, 2010

Grew her wings on August 8, 2010

Tecumseh, Michigan
 

September and October of 2009 were both very busy months for us. We had 2 weddings, 2 bridal showers, 2 Bachlorette parties, a baby shower, 2 birthday parties, a Halloween party...basically we were booked up for those 2 months solid. November 11th 2009 I started getting sick and was sick the rest of the week until Saturday and Sunday. Monday came around and I was sick again. On November 18th 2009 I just happened to think "Hmmm, when did I have a period last?" I couldn't remember at all so I decided to take a test just to be sure. It came back positive, but this time was different.

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Megan

Mom to Little Lost One, March 11, 2009

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 

Travis and I met my freshman (his junior) year at college. A friend of mine dragged me to a party at his fraternity house, and one of the first people we met there was Travis. We spent the whole night talking and at the end of the night as I went to leave, he gave me a quick kiss and asked me to come back tomorrow. I did (Oct. 13, 2000), and we've been together ever since. We were married six years later, on October 13, 2006. It was a perfect autumn day, everything we could have hoped for!

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Amy

Mom to Triplets

Miscarried triplet #1 at 12 weeks in January 2010

Avery, born still on March 23, 2010 at 23 weeks

Alexander, March 24, 2010 - March 24, 2010 at 23 weeks

Derry, New Hampshire
 

My husband and I tried for years to get pregnant. We were finally lucky after a few years of fertility medication to get pregnant in November 2009. In December 2009 we found out we were expecting triplets.

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Lauren

Mom to Bean, miscarried at 6 weeks, August 7, 2010

Sprout, miscarried at 9 weeks, 6 days, September 3, 2010

Naples, New York
 

It is so hard to know where to begin with our story. Right now it just seems like a mash-up of the greatest happiness and the most painful sadness my husband and I have ever experienced.

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Natashia

Mom to Robbie 
Born still March 27, 2008

Canada
 

Robbie died on March 27, 2008. My baby died due to knot in his cord and placental abruption. Robbie died at 38 weeks gestation. My world crumbled down on me and our family. The worst feeling any Mother or Father should have to endure.

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Megan
Mom to Jillian Hannah
Born on December 5, 2009
Passed away Peacefully on December 9, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts
 

I got pregnant with Jillian in July 2009. I loved every second of being pregnant, despite terrible morning sickness and back pain. I was more in love with our baby girl than I had ever thought possible and couldn't wait to meet her at the end of March 2010.

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Adrianne

Mom to Tre,' January 12, 2008

and Walter, July 3, 2008

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 

I have had many losses in my life, many of them in the first trimester. I had 4 early losses before I got pregnant with my first son Tre'.

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Sylvia

Mom to Baby K

Lost on approximately October 9, 2009 at 9 weeks gestation

Kansas

My husband and I began dating in 2000 while I was a junior and he was a senior in high school. We waited until July 2, 2005 to get married. Six months later, we were pregnant with our daughter. We had no trouble conceiving her, and my pregnancy was relatively easy. She was born on October 11, 2006 after being induced for extremely low amniotic fluid. We decided to not try for another baby until after she turned two. I was terrified of having 'two under two,' but little did I know what was in store for us.

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