PCOS Birth Story

This birth story isn’t the experience Brook ever thought she’d have to share, but it’s hers and it matters! Just like all Plus Size Birth stories matter. 

My wife and I wanted to start a family right away, we just were not sure how we were going accomplish our dream of becoming mommies.

This story of miscarriages and one stillbirth contains a trigger warning for pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and assault.  My name is April-Marie and I live with a condition that most people …

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.

Women like Jessica, in her red fitted plus size maternity dress, continue to break down barriers. They show us that size is not a limiting factor when it comes to your dream maternity photos! 

Recently the site CafeMom launched, Plus-Size Pregnant & Proud with the desire to lift the veil around plus size pregnant and provide comfort to plus-size moms to be.

I envisioned myself in a long flowing dress accenting a round baby bump. However, these are my adoption maternity photos, and I couldn’t be happier!

I planned things for a living. The decision to have a child was no different. This is my story of four years of trying to conceive with PCOS.

I thought my body was a failure because we had a different journey than others. But then I look at my daughter and think to myself “my goodness, my body was perfect for her”.

For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to be a mommy. I never expected it would be such a struggle to get here. This is my plus size infertility story.