by JD | Mar 6, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Every year we have cake on her birthday in her honor. By S.O. Before going in for my first sonogram, I dropped my other two children off at my parents’ house. My sisters and their children were there, along with my pregnant sister-in-law, and everybody was...
by JD | Mar 6, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Oligohydraminos, Posterior Urethral Valves (PUV), Stories
Our baby boy was born on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the same hospital where I was born. A Grieving Mother It is hard to know where I should begin to express to others the story of what happened to us. Particularly when it is linked to an ending which was far from...
by Amy Collier | Mar 6, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Stories
It is so hard to go through the pain of childbirth only to go home empty handed. By B.B. I was barely 24, single and living with my parents when I found out I was pregnant. I wasn’t certain if I was ready to have children and ambivalent about continuing the...
by Amy Collier | Mar 5, 2015 | Fetal Hydrops, Induction/L&D, Polyhydraminios, Termination after 24 weeks
Every year we make cards for Jamie’s birthday. We attach them to balloons, sing to her and release the balloons. My husband and I weren’t yet trying for number three, but we always felt there would be one more baby for us. God had just decided it would be...
by JD | Mar 5, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Neural Tube Defects, Spina Bifida
It felt so strange leaving the hospital and going home without our baby. We took his teddy home with us so that we could keep it forever. By Wendy I worried throughout this pregnancy. I hadn’t even bought anything for the baby, and felt awkward telling people I...
by JD | Mar 4, 2015 | Induction/L&D, Stories
I starred in my film and collapsed dramatically. My God, I didn’t want to be in this film and I didn’t want the ending that someone else was writing for me. Eliza’s Mum I should be 33 weeks pregnant. I should be huge, uncomfortable, and thinking...
