Hayden An Unexpected Twist 48 hours later, on Saturday, we had more blood work to make sure that everything was progressing as expected. They had cleared me to go on the trip back home to North Carolina
Hayden "Unfortunately, you are miscarrying again" It was finally time. We had waited the 48 hours we needed to to find out if the baby was okay after the cyst bursting on Tuesday. The doctors said that the baby
Hayden Brofest Begins! Evan's college friends have an annual tradition of getting together, which they have dubbed "Brofest." This event is planned for months, and is highly anticipated. This year, four of them were
Hayden Something Is Wrong... It was my husband's birthday, and we have a tradition of laying out birthday presents on the placemat in the morning. We celebrated together, and had dinner plans later that evening. I went
Hayden Telling... Everyone The first time we were pregnant, we were really sure that we did not want to wait the recommended first trimester to tell people for several reasons: Safety in pregnancy is never 100%
Hayden Telling Evan's Family We had already planned on going to see Evan's family the weekend after we found out that we were pregnant, because Evan's sister, Emily, was in town and Evan's birthday was coming up
Hayden Telling Jessi's Parents We could not wait to tell our families! We were able to convince my (Jessi's) parents to Google Hangout the next day under the guise of "planning my trip home." My
Hayden Finding Out It was early in the morning on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, and I convinced Evan to let me take a pregnancy test today. We had just taken a month off of fertility, as
Avery Where Are We Now So, now it's mid-December and it has been about three months since we lost our precious Avery. We are still grieving and recognize a part of us will always be grieving. It has
Avery Telling People About the Miscarriage So, Evan and I told everyone who knew that we were pregnant about the miscarriage with in the first couple days after the first of the news. We then updated everyone that the
Avery The Heart of the Gospel I have undoubtedly never in my life been so blessed by the caring of others than during this season. I am tearful just remembering it. We had 2 of our friends bring us
Avery The Story of Avery On Sept 26th, we took the medications at home to induce our cleaning process. I underestimated the emotional and physical toll that taking the medications myself would have on me, and in hindsight,
Avery Our Third Ultrasound Over the next few days, my heart just ached at the loss of our baby, but simultaneously, I did not feel sure of the doctors decision that this was a miscarriage. They did
Avery Our Second Ultrasound On September 15, we were scheduled for our second ultrasound to date how old our baby actually was. Evan has been wonderful and has gone with me to every single appointment since we
Avery Pregnancy Annoucements Here is a precious montage video that Evan put together of all of the special moments where we told our friends and family that we were able to catch on video. They didn't
Avery Trying to Keep the Secret! So, we have been trying to wait to tell people that we are pregnant until after our next ultrasound where they will try again to date our pregnancy. The natural question after you
