by plussizebirth | Plus Size Birth Stories
My name is Melissa! I met my wife Ariel 6 years ago at work. We got married on May 31, 2014. We knew we wanted to start a family right away, we just were not sure how we were going accomplish our dream of becoming mommies. Trigger Warning For Miscarriage Before we got... 
by plussizebirth | Plus Size Birth Stories
At my highest weight, I was almost 400 lbs. I finally found a good place where I was active and eating mostly healthy but still enjoying myself. Those changes naturally put me around 300 lbs. -310 lbs. I was happy with this, so my husband and I started trying to... 
by plussizebirth | Plus Size Birth Stories
When you search “#plussizepregnancy” on Instagram, you’ll see images of pregnant people of many sizes. What you don’t often see is people who exist in a much larger body – those who are pregnant weighing 350 pounds or 400 pounds. If... 
by plussizebirth | Plus Size Birth Stories
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... 
by plussizebirth | Plus Size Birth Stories
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... 
