http://www.fetalhope.org/blog Leading the way to HOPE.... Fri, 28 May 2010 03:32:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In all honesty, I was a little hesitant to write my story for the Fetal Hope Foundation because it did not have a happy ending.  But after much thought, I realized that my story could help others cope with a loss and possibly provide some kind of hope.  Because I ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=23 We recently sat down to talk with Dr. Courtney Stephenson, DO, FACOG, one of Fetal Hope’s newest additions to the Medical Advisory Board and Director of the recently opened Charlotte Fetal Care Center in Charlotte, NC, to learn more about her journey and inspiration behind treating fetal syndromes like TTTS. 1.       ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=22 When my fiancé and I went in for our routine 20 week ultrasound, we were ecstatic to find out the sex of our beautiful bundle of joy. Being so naïve at the time, my biggest fear was that the baby wouldn’t be positioned in the technician’s favor and we wouldn’t ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=21 Ours is a story that needs to be told as it is one of hope and of success, and I have realized during this journey that it is not always a certainty that these kinds of stories close with a happy ending.  Ours does, and my wish is that parents ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=20 “The most amazing experience in life is to be a parent and one can only truly sense it by becoming one. The first time you lay your eyes on your child you know deep down inside that your life as you know it will revolve around him or her.” The above ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=19 We learned at about 7.5 weeks that we were pregnant with twins, but that they (doctors) did not see a membrane separating the two babies.  Having had two very easy singleton pregnancies before, I had no idea that two babies could even be in the same sack.  We were referred ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=18 2nd Pregnancy Our first child, Veronica, was born in 2006 in Charlotte, NC.  We loved being a family, and a year later decided we wanted another child.  After a couple months of trying to conceive our second child, we were excited to receive a positive pregnancy result on our home pregnancy ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=17 May 10, 2008...that was the day we found out we were having twins.  One would expect the doctor to share the news by using an excited tone “WOW….there are two”.  But instead, the conversation went more like, “oh there are two, don’t go online and look up twin complications”.  We ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=16 Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty – the list goes on and on. We have all read most of the more popular fairy tales.  Some of us have them memorized after having read them a thousand times.  Well, we were living the fairytale until we were introduced to something we had ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=15 Harris Family Within that past couple of years my husband and I have experienced four miscarriages.  The loss of a child, no matter at what stage, is heartbreaking.  Doctors told us after each miscarriage that there is nothing wrong with us, we are still young and that we will go on ... http://www.fetalhope.org/blog/?p=14