For many couples, starting a family and having a baby is simple and happens the minute they start trying, and for some, it even happens when they don’t mean for it to. But for about 12 percent of women in the United States, getting pregnant and carrying a baby to full term is nearly impossible.
For three years, Cincinnati couple Dan Majesky,37, and wife Leah,36, have been trying to have a baby, and over those three years, they have tried everything from hormone treatments, sperm collections, and intra-uterine insemination.
After three long years of heartbreak and tears, the couple is finally expecting a baby girl this November, but when Majesky decided to announce the news, he couldn’t just ignore the struggle they’ve gone through and didn’t want to pretend like the baby they lost never existed.
“I wanted to write a little more about what we had been through on the way to that announcement,” Majesky said. “Especially regarding the miscarriage, because neither of us wanted that to go unremarked upon. That was a hard time for us — a lonely time — but that baby left a permanent mark on us, and it didn’t seem fair that it would get hidden away.”
“And you get pregnant,” Majesky wrote in the post to Facebook. “Everything looked great and we were on track, so when we went in for one final scan before being released to our obstetrician a couple weeks later, we were all smiles and jokes. ‘I’m so sorry. I can’t find the heartbeat.’ And then you’re not pregnant.”
After all the grief, pain, and exhaustion, the couple finally got pregnant. “We’re very excited, but I’ll be holding my breath for 26ish weeks. And it’s a girl. Not that gender matters! But we’re going to have a little girl! And I am stoked. We are stoked. We are pregnant,” the excited dad-to-be wrote.
Read the entire emotional letter this soon-to-be dad posted to Facebook below. It might be long, but it’s definitely worth the read.
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[Featured image credit: Facebook/Dan Majesky]
Husband Pens Emotional Letter About Fertility Struggles is an article from: LifeDaily