“I found some elaborate way to share the news with my husband. The handcrafted note around our dog’s neck read, ‘Surprise! You’re going to be a father!’ Then a few weeks later, surprise you’re not. By the 3rd pregnancy, there was no special announcement. I didn’t buy a single item, not even a bib. How could I?”
‘To get 2 children, I gave up 2. Creating a baby lost all allure. I was on a mission, detached from the actual act. Every app told me when to breathe, when to baby make. I couldn’t feel joy. It was all fear.’
‘I got with my boyfriend in July. By November, I was pregnant. We had been ‘irresponsible.’ We dealt with it. I convinced myself I’d killed my baby. I couldn’t look at my daughter without crying.’
“The thing is, I also got pregnant many years before at age 24. It was the first time I’d had unprotected sex, and I had split up with the father. Having a termination was my only option. This has hugely troubled me the past 3 years, but I’m not ashamed to talk about it.”
‘Everyone talks about the positives, but we rarely hear of the negatives. How we check the test 3 minutes later, and then 30 minutes later to see if that magic second line made an appearance.’
“It starts with picturing you’ll be able to announce with something like ‘Red, White, and Due’ on the 4th of July. Then August and September pass and you decide it’s okay because announcing at Halloween is just as exciting. And then Halloween passes.”
‘Look, I have this REALLY dumb idea’ Wife plans EPIC dinosaur announcement after miscarriage, announces 5th child
“I suffered a total miscarriage at home and we lost the baby. We were heartbroken…. and it took us some time to get past the loss of our baby, but we knew if it were meant to be, we would have another.”
‘I gave birth to my first daughter when I was 21. I was in college and barely knew this baby’s father before I got pregnant. Here we are, about to be parents to 6.’
“My father’s wife passed away. They had a 2-year-old son. Biologically, he is my brother. My dad had to make the heart wrenching decision on who would be best fit to raise him.”
‘I slept next to my husband for 4 nights harboring the biggest secret I have ever kept in my life. My heart was racing.’
“I don’t remember the rest of the words he spoke, I just remember the look on his face. Just like our wedding day.”
‘We lost Addy on June 3rd. We found out 3 weeks later my wife was pregnant.’ Father reveals pregnancy news 3 months after losing daughter to aggressive brain tumor
“We didn’t have much time left with her, but our hope was to have her long enough to tell her she was going to be a big sister. It would have lit up her world. That happy news was never delivered.”
‘HOLY SH*T, we finally did it!’ Wife surprises husband with shocking baby announcement after 3 years of infertility
“She explained it would be extremely hard for me to become pregnant. I broke down in that cold exam room. The only thing in my head was, ‘I can’t have kids. I can’t be a woman for this amazing man who is counting on me.’”
‘I will never forget the sound from my husband when we found our beautiful little boy unresponsive. I would do anything to go back in time.’
“It still doesn’t register that a perfectly healthy, loved and happy baby would just pass away. We did everything right. This had to be the worst nightmare ever.”
Niece ‘CONVINCED’ mom’s pregnancy surprise is her deceased uncle ‘making this dream of hers come true’
“Jay’s unexpected passing hit Ella especially hard, and despite her usual strength and positive attitude, the past couple of years have been difficult for her.”
