Infertility & Miscarriage

A gray boxed lit up on my phone, and my heart began to race as I read the words, “I lost it”. “What?” I quickly replied. Her delayed response only confirmed the ache she must have been feeling as...

Orlando Mom Collective Guide to Pregnancy + Postpartum When it comes to pregnancy and postpartum, it seems like there are SO many options! So where can you go to get information about infertility, OB/GYNs, doulas, surrogacy, lactation consultants, and postpartum...

A New Year = New Year resolutions that I might not keep (at least not on a consistent basis). Frankly they’re always the same resolutions: eat healthy, exercise more, travel more, more time for me… I do try to eat...

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*brought to you by Donor Egg Bank USA You know you want a baby, and you know you want to experience pregnancy, complete with feeling those little baby kicks. But for one of many possible reasons, you have decided to...

I always thought I'd be that mainstream Mama, up on the latest baby trends, and who loves a good Pottery Barn Kids catalog and adorable preppy baby clothes. However when it came to trying to conceive and then choosing birth providers, I was...

You know her. She is a daughter, sister, wife, friend, aunt, co-worker. She is a mother. Without her child. I remember it well. It was my friend, Noelle's first Mother's Day since burying her child. I couldn't imagine the emotions she was feeling...

There is a lot of tabu that comes along with announcing pregnancies before the second trimester. Some women feel it's bad luck, while others just want to make sure everything is 100% healthy with the pregnancy. In reality, you...

  6 years, 24 days 316 weeks, 3 days 2215 days 53,160 hours 3,189,600 minutes That's the amount of time that passed between our wedding and the birth of our twin daughters. It seemed like forever. Time crawls when you are a childless mother. Infertility starts...

It might seem weird to have an infertility post on a “mom’s blog” but I want to change that, because it shouldn’t be weird. While I’m a mom to a two and a half year old little girl, I’ve...

We’re expecting! But for a while, we didn’t know what we were expecting. We’ve had two precious kids and we’ve had two miscarriages. This fifth pregnancy could've been kid three or miscarriage three. Either way, it was going to...

by Elisabeth Myrick former OMB Contributor About a year ago, I wrote about my miscarriage experience for Babyourself magazine (now The Moms Magazine). The article focused on how telling my closest friends and family about the pregnancy early on, actually helped...