“I just love how it’s a world that you want to be a part of....

“I just love how it’s a world that you want to be a part of.  Everyone wants to go to Hogwarts.  And everyone knows what house they’d belong to, both of us are Hufflepuffs.  I actually didn’t get into Harry Potter until I became an adult.  But in 2017 I listened to all seven of the audiobooks during my commute to work.  We were trying to get pregnant at the time.  And it was taking longer than expected.  Our first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.  It was an extremely difficult experience, but I kept thinking: ‘One in four women have miscarriages, and I just happen to fall in that category.’  Of course I was nervous for the next time, but I thought we’d be OK.  But then it happened again.  And again.  It was difficult both physically and emotionally.  We began to wonder: ‘Is it worth it?  Do we even keep trying?  Then our first round of IVF failed,  and I sort of gave up hope.  I even joined a Facebook group for women who are childless against their choice.  We had our second embryo transfer in September.  Our goal was to make it through the first trimester.  When we got to eight weeks, that was huge, because we’d never made it past 6.5 weeks before.  Our due date is May 28th.  So I figured it was finally safe to start planning the announcement.“
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