When our baby was diagnosed with HLHS at our 20-week anatomy scan, the next question was, “What now?”. I had no idea what the rest of my pregnancy would look like with a CHD diagnosis. No doubt there was a wide range of emotions that I had to learn how to deal with as I […]
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I guess to start my first birth story I should start by saying we had a COVID baby. Yep. I was one of those moms that gave birth in 2020 to my very first child when the world was in such an uncertain state. My husband and I are both teachers, and our school shut
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Maybe a NICU stay was a surprise, or maybe you had time to process that you would be in the NICU, but either way, you might be asking yourself, “What do I need for my baby in the NICU?”. It’s a great question because it seems like it might be pretty pointless to bring much
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My second birth story holds a very special place in my heart. It’s a two-day journey that I will never forget. It was drastically different than my first birth story. It showed me what I was capable of, and it led us to the day we finally met our heart warrior. The Backstory If this
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I don’t know that there’s a perfect word to sum up how it feels to go through a pregnancy after losing a child. I don’t think there is one perfect word, because in my experience there are many words to describe this journey. After losing our second child at three months old I know that
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You never expect anything bad to happen to you or your children. You hear of terrible things happening to other people and think something like that will never happen to you – until it does. When we received our son’s CHD diagnosis I realized we were stepping into one of those stories. That terrible thing
