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6 January 2018 We got pregnant around the time my Grandmother was put on hospice. I was her caregiver and finding out we were pregnant was giving her reason to keep fighting. I believed I got pregnant because God was taking away my Grandma. This would be my second pregnancy...
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12 February 2014 My husband Brad and I always knew we wanted to have children and it was when I was 29 that we started trying. It didn’t happen like we had hoped, naively believing that we’d click our fingers and presto our first child would be on the way,...
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10 May 1997 I don’t know how to write this so I’m just going to do my best. I’m 14 years old and I have an older sister, who was stillborn. Her name is Matilda May Wilson and she will be 18 on May the 10th 2015. She is three...
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14 July 2014 Scott and I were married in October 2013 and we thrilled to discover that we were pregnant upon returning from our honeymoon. Getting pregnant came easily to us. We felt very fortunate. Our excitement soon turned to devastation when we received the results of our 12 week...
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26 April 1988 On 26th April 1988 I was at home with my [then] husband and 4 year old daughter, I was 37 weeks pregnant and everything was going along fine. I remember my water broke but there were no contractions, nothing unusual; here as it was the same scenario...
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21 September 2011 My pregnancy would be classed as a ‘dream pregnancy’, I had no morning sickness and no pregnancy symptoms to complain of. I was under an obstetrician & at 32 weeks I saw him for my regular appointment. I sat down & remember saying to him that I...
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15 February 2014 On the 13th of February 2014 I went to a routine check up with my obstetrician. I was 34 weeks pregnant. I’d pretty much skipped out of work that day. I had a delivery of decorations arrive for my baby shower. Which was scheduled for 2 weeks...
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31 March 2012 This is my Alice story…. We were like any couple expecting their first baby, nervous, excited, clueless. My pregnancy was uneventful, although I was huge! I started to measure weeks ahead and by full term I was 4 weeks ahead in growth. It was our due week...
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9 October 2017 This is Hamish’s birth story. It was only 7 days ago I woke up feeling a little bit funny. Something was just not quite right. I couldn’t feel my baby moving in my stomach. I was 1 day off 39 weeks pregnant and eagerly anticipating the arrival...
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13 April 1958 This year I’ll be 58. When my mum was 19 she got married and was already 3 months pregnant with my elder brother. Thinking while breastfeeding she couldn’t get pregnant, I was conceived and born 13 months later. April 13th 1958 at St Marys Hospital Armley Leeds...
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13 September 2016 When my Husband and I found out we were expecting we were over joyed. Being first time parents was thrilling and exciting. We had a healthy pregnancy during our first trimester. Not long into my second trimester at 20 weeks I went in for a routine scan...
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23 November 2015 Every part of my pregnancy was normal and routine, and there was never anything to indicate that there was going to be a problem. At my 33 week check up my obstetrician asked, as always, if I was feeling lots of movement. And, as always, I told...
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23 September 2014 It was a Saturday in September 2014. I had been feeling flu-like symptoms for a few days and put it down to being 35wks pregnant and having 2 small children to run after so thought nothing of it. All of a sudden I broke out in a...
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12 September 2013 Andrew and I met in July 2012. I knew the first moment he kissed me that he would change my life. We found out that we were expecting our first child together (I have 2 boys from a previous relationship and Andrew has 1. They were 12,...
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19 March 2016 People take getting pregnant and having babies for granted but after a miscarriage last year I treasured every kick and movement that Dolly gave me.. My pregnancy had gone smoothly and Dolly was a good size and I was having regular strong kicks.. 4 days before we...