Our story begins like many others: love, marriage, and having a child who would complete our little world seemed to be only natural. But nature often plays tricks...
A few months after I made the decision about the child, I felt that I finally succeeded! Full of emotion, I took a pregnancy test and I was stunned - it was negative. I couldn't believe it. I tried to control myself, to talk some sense into myself, but my intuition did not leave me alone. I felt like I was pregnant! I did blood tests, the results were clear: I was right! I immediately bought some wonderful tiny shoes, drew a big heart around the test result with a red marker and gave it to my husband. We were so happy! Unfortunately, on the same day the first disturbing symtoms appeared. I went to see the doctor, he said that the pregnancy was very early and that we had to wait. So we waited full of anxiety and hope, but on the next visits our joy was returning: the embryo was growing, although slowly, and when the doctor finallyshowed us a beating heart on the screen, we breathed a sigh of relief. We believed that from that moment on everything would be fine. Unfortunately, during the next visit it turned out that our baby had not grown enough and the heart was not beating as it should. It was December 23rd. The doctor told us to keep the hope, because 'it's Christmas, and on Christmas even miracles can happen'. Unfortunately not in our case... December 27th - it was our to be or not to be... A motionless image on an ultrasound screen... Our Christmas miracle did not happen - our little one's heart stopped beating. The leading doctor came to me in the hospital. After a short conversation he said 'you must be strong... Remember: you are like an armadillo and nothing will move you'. After leaving the hospital I went to the tattoo studio. The first free term. The armadillo is with me forever.
Almost a year later I did a pregnancy test again.
The first visit just before Christmas and again the same thing: the pregnancy is early, you have to wait. 27.12 we were sitting in the same waiting room again, experiencing a terrible deja vu - we were waiting to be or not to be. This time the image of the ultrasound was not motionless: the heart was flickering evenly and strongly on the screen. Today our rainbow daughter is over 3 years old and every day she challenges us for two :)
The wrap in the pictures is RAINBOW BABY: https://bit.ly/3lSadwX