When I was going through the thick of infertility, I thought that getting my Rainbow Baby would be my “happy ending” and that somehow, having a baby in my arms would fix what I’d gone through. Getting my Rainbow Baby here and in my arms was my solitary focus. It was the thing that kept…
Before I experienced a miscarriage, I had no idea what a “Rainbow Baby” was. However, after experiencing recurrent pregnancy loss, the term took on an important meaning in our family. A “Rainbow Baby” is a baby that is born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or after the loss of an infant. Many people refer to them…
In 2019, I experienced three early-pregnancy losses and was diagnosed with recurrent pregnancy loss due to unexplained secondary infertility. (You can read more about that here.) Last year, in 2020, we finally had our triple “Rainbow Baby” and yet, I still talk about our miscarriages and post about them on Instagram. Why? Well, simply put,…
During 2019, I had three miscarriages. Doctors couldn’t tell us the reason for our losses, and since we had a daughter who had been born in 2017 without complications, we ended up with the diagnosis of unexplained secondary infertility. According to the World Health Organization defines secondary infertility as “[w]hen a woman is unable to…
It can be hard to know what is appropriate to give someone who is experiencing a miscarriage. If you’re reading this article, chances are that you know someone who has recently had a miscarriage. As someone who had three miscarriages in a single year, I know that the people around me had a really hard…
In the span of a single year, I’ve been pregnant three times. And yet, I have no baby in my arms to show for any of them. This is my story of recurrent pregnancy loss. Our First Loss When my husband and I began trying for our second child together, we thought that the journey…
Chances are, there aren’t many people in your personal life that understand the personal hell you are going through right now – miscarriage recovery. Unless a person has gone through a miscarriage, they have absolutely no capacity to understand. Instead of resenting them for their ignorance, try to be glad that they have never faced…
Deciding when to announce a pregnancy is a decision that only you and your partner can make. Only you will know when the time is right to share the news with loved ones, acquaintances and coworkers. Having gone through three pregnancies now, two of which were lost during the first trimester, I’d love to share…
In January, my husband and I had a miscarriage. (You can read about that experience here.) Then, in April, we found out that we were pregnant again after trying to conceive for one cycle. Though we felt INCREDIBLY lucky and excited, we knew immediately that pregnancy after miscarriage was going to be an unique journey….
