my story was like any other my ex husband and I decided to have a baby. It took us 6 mths but finally we was pregnant we was so excited to start a family. through out my pregnancy everything was fine. I was feeling fine then the last couple mths
• 3 min readJust an FYI - this is going to be long! I haven't ever written my story before, and I feel the need to get it all out there, so it will be lengthy, I'm sure. My journey to motherhood was a long one, filled with a
• 7 min readAfter having two beautiful girls, we finally had a handsome baby boy on October 11, 2013. He had to be delivered by c-section because he was breech. The OBGYN doctor was unable to turn him prior to delivery. At 40 years old, I really was feeling great until I returned
• 2 min readAs a single Mom of two beautiful daughters, I took a leap, and went to nursing school. I went down to part-time hours at my office job for the local ob clinic in which I had been working for the previous five years. I remember sitting in orientation, shaking like
• 20 min readOn August 30, 1998 I gave birth to my beautiful daughter Hailey. My pregnancy was normal up until the last month which consisted of severe swelling, anemia, heart palpatations and shortness of breath. All of these symptoms were passed of as being normal. Two days after coming home from the
• 1 min readhi im a 31yr old mother to 3, i had a normal pregnancy with my 3rd child until a couple of weeks before her birth, my ankles swelled badly and i seemed to go enormous, still she was born in the birthing pool safely and healthy 6lb in march 13,
• 1 min readToday is exactly one year since I found out I was pregnant with baby #4, so I guess it's time to share my story. Baby #1: Born August 31, 2000, 8 pound healthy baby girl born vaginally no epidural. Total time in labor 6.5 hrs. Baby #2:
• 7 min readIn 1988 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Amber Elise. She was 14 days late and I was in labor for 17 hours before the doctors decided to do an emergency C-section because the baby showed some signs of distress and Momma was too. The surgery went well,
• 7 min readMy story begins as many regular women, my husband and I decided to try for a baby and 8 months later were thrilled with a positive pregnancy test. Around 7-9 weeks I started having heart palpitations. I called my doctors office and the ruled them as normal because of the
• 4 min readWhen I was in my eighth month of pregnancy, I was working and passed out for no reason. I called the doctor and told them I'm going to the ER because I just passed out. The nurse asked why and said that I just needed to come in
• 2 min readI was diagnosed with PPCM after giving birth to my 3rd son on July 16th, 2013 at age 42. I have been short of breath since before having my baby, but I wrote it off to him taking up so much room on my body. After all, he was 10lbs
• 3 min readI had a beautiful bouncing baby boy via emergency c-section late in the evening of Tuesday, May 22,2001. After being induced twice and being in labor for about 38 hours. My sweet boy decided it was time to make his appearance, however my body was not ready. I did
• 5 min readI should have known something was wrong when I had to sit to take a shower. i should have known something was wrong when i couldn't stop coughing and couldn't lay down at all much less to sleep. i was swollen and could hardly walk and
• 4 min readI wasn’t ready to be a mother when I got pregnant. I had been throwing up like crazy- seriously, the toilet and I had become best friends after I was hugging it all day every day. I decided to take a pregnancy test just to see if I could
• 10 min readMy husband and I tried to have a secong baby for a while, my first is 4 years old i had miscarried 6 times before we heard his little miracle heartbeat, when it was time to have another we thought it would be okay but again a tubal and a
• 3 min read