Content warning for pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and assault. My name is April-Marie and I live with a condition that most people do not know exists, or have a lack of proper education about it. Most people don’t understand my frustrations when I tell them I want...
I had an amazing all natural birth. Then at my baby's twenty-four-hour newborn screening, it was discovered that my son had congenital heart defects that were missed during my pregnancy. He had open heart surgery at twenty days old and spent the first seven weeks of...
Like many cesarean birth moms, Heather has heard people say, “having a c-section is an easy way out.” As you'll read below, Heather's birth experience was anything besides easy. It was traumatic. There's no type of birth that's easier than others. No birth...
Healthy, happy pregnancy, traumatic birth, and postpartum journey, most amazing and heartwarming joy. In that order. Let me first say that I was terrified of being pregnant. I thought that because I was plus size, I couldn’t have a healthy pregnancy. But my bod...
Birth trauma is real, PTSD birth trauma is real, and more people are coming forward to share their birth trauma stories! A few years ago, Cristen Pascucci, founder of Birth Monopoly, and photographer Lindsay Askins collaborated on Expositing The Silence. Their...
In 2015 at the age of 30 I was diagnosed with low ovarian reserve. Basically, I was running out of eggs and was advised to start In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) if I wanted my own biological children. We started saving immediately, while still trying to...
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