I am a 36-year old woman who's tried for five years to get pregnant using both traditional and medical/artificial means. My husband and I have been married for almost 12 years, and are also in the process of trying to adopt a little boy from Vietnam (but it's not going well). Despite being able to belt out a whooping 22 eggs during a retrieval and husband's super sperm count, and after taking...
For ten years we were a family of two. Three if you count our dog. We had a dream. Marriage and children and the whole happy ending. In 2003 we found out that our dream may not come true. First clomid three times. Five IUIs. Four IVFs. Thousands of dollars and many years. And still a family of two. Three if you counted the dog.
It was during that emotional roller coaster that I started this...
I am a wife, mother and labor & delivery nurse. Life is pretty busy and trying to find a balance between all of these is the joy of my life. This past summer, I reached a goal of mine by running 5K races. I found myself unexpectedly pregnant this summer. Unfortunately, that pregnancy ended in my first miscarriage at 11 weeks. I had a D&C August 27, 2009. My blog...
As celebrity-driven cultural images of pregnancy are dictating how women should look and feel during pregnancy, The Baby Bump Project, founded by Dr. Meredith Nash seeks to reveal how everyday women struggle with the pressures be pregnant and perfect. Far removed from the glossy image of the baby bump as a fashionable appendage, this blog sheds light on the glaring gap between the fantasy world...
Myah is a university student from New Brunswick, Canada, and the mother of baby Faith Hope. Faith was diagnosed with anencephaly, a condition deemed "incompatible with life," when Myah was 19 weeks pregnant. Myah's unconditional love for her child, together with her faith in God, carried her through the remainder of her difficult yet much-cherished pregnancy. Baby Faith was born on...
