by Amy Collier | Oct 17, 2021 | Diagnoses, Stories, Turner Syndrome
People say you need to make the best decision for you, and that there’s not a wrong decision. But what do you do when there is not a right decision? By Liane I get it now. You never know true heartbreak until you know true heartbreak. I think back to the worst...
by Amy Collier | Jul 28, 2021 | Induction/L&D, Stories
I’ll never forget the emptiness I felt afterward. You’re meant to come away with a little baby after giving birth, not be sent home from the hospital with a broken heart. By Emma My husband and I spent five years trying to have a baby. In the midst of...
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...
by Amy Collier | Mar 12, 2021 | Induction/L&D, Stories, Trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome)
We had to make a choice between rock and hard place, shitty or shittier. The least shitty option for us was to terminate the pregnancy. By Jane After several miscarriages, two living children, then more miscarriages, my husband put his foot down and said, “No more.”...
by JD | Feb 26, 2021 | D&C, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
I just wasn’t expecting this. I hadn’t had time to do any research. I couldn’t think of any questions even though my mind was racing and my hands were shaking. By Stefanie A difficult beginning I’m 39 and had three previous miscarriages (no living...
