by Jodi | Mar 25, 2026 | D&E, Stories, Turner Syndrome
The Red Papasan Chair by Ruika The first night I held my one-year-old son to sleep in the red papasan chair was the night that I realized I simultaneously hadn’t thought about my daughter in a while and I also missed her terribly. Tears streamed down my...
by Jodi | Mar 15, 2026 | Anencephaly, D&E, Hydrocephalus, Stories
My Blueberry By Laken – Blue’s Mom I wasn’t planning to get pregnant. At the time I was single and had just moved into a new apartment so imagine my surprise when I decided to take a pregnancy test for fun on November 2, 2025, just for it to turn...
by Jodi | Feb 9, 2026 | D&E, Stories, Trisomy 18 (Edward's syndrome)
James was going to be our last baby, the perfect ending to our family. By Sarah – James’ Mom We were so excited when we saw those two little lines on the pregnancy test in August. My husband and I had decided we wanted three children back when we...
by JD | Dec 5, 2021 | D&E, Hydrocephalus, Stories
By Yin “Your baby’s head is big. I don’t want to alarm you, but just be prepared.” These words from my sonographer changed my life forever. A few hours before the sonogram, l was anxious. I kept visualizing walking out of my 20 week anatomy scan with reports of a...
by JD | Jul 28, 2021 | Congenital Heart Defects, D&E, Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome, Stories, Tricuspid Atresia
Editor’s Note By special request of the author, this story is published exactly as it was submitted to us. We were crushed, devastated, horrified. The rug had been swept outfrom under us. In amatter of a few days, we had gone from excited to meet our little...
by JD | Jul 28, 2021 | Congenital Heart Defects, Cystic Hygroma, D&E, Fetal Hydrops, Stories, Turner Syndrome
The doctor came in with a very sympathetic demeanor and started saying words like cystic hygroma and hydrops and fatal and miscarry and chromosomal issues. We completely lost it. “What do you mean?” I wanted to scream. I just saw a normal happy little moving baby on...
