I’m almost a bit embarrassed to tell my little guy Henry’s story of IUGR (Intrauterine Growth Restriction) – because, in comparisMore ...

Being almost 40 and pregnant was very nerve-racking.More ...

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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 am human and dealing with the raw emotions of losing children, I had to really put a filter on my thoughts.  I had to weed out the anger and resentment in order to expose the hope that I have found today.  InsteMore ...

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.More ...

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 be able to find out the gender.More ...

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 who find themselves searching for answers to the millions of questions running through their minds, and who are in desperate need of a sliver of hope, will find it in reading our story.

“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.”More ...

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 to a specialist and were told that we should wait at least 12 weeks to allow for a membrane to present itself.  So we went for weekly ultrasound appointments and were lucky enough to see a separating membraMore ...

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 test.  A couple of days later we went into our OBGYN and they confirmed the pregnancy.  We fully expected this pregnancy to be as straight forward as our first.  Boy, were we wrong!  At oMore ...