“There is no greater agony\u00a0than bearing an untold story inside you.” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –Maya Angelou<\/p>\n
Two miscarriages and a subsequent year of unexplained infertility inspired me to write and eventually share our story in this space.\u00a0 2016 was a year of loss for us, and\u00a02017 left us wondering if we would ever have a child of our own.\u00a0 On our “we don’t have kids so why not?” bucket list vacation to Ireland, we found out that we were pregnant again after a year of not being able to conceive.\u00a0 On March 16th, 2018 we welcomed our rainbow baby, Fiona into this world and began the parenthood chapter of our lives.<\/p>\n
I’ve\u00a0<\/span>been a Neonatal ICU nurse for\u00a08 years as a graduate from the University of Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) \u00a0I met my husband in a wedding in 2011 and we married in April of 2013. \u00a0Tony has his PhD in clinical psychology from\u00a0Notre Dame (Go Irish!)\u00a0and is currently doing a post-doctorate research fellowship specializing in sleep deprivation, emotions and memory.<\/p>\n Outside of my relationship with infertility and parenthood, I am an enthusiastic crafter and love to restore and up-cycle furniture.\u00a0 Our family of five including our two cavalier king Charles spaniels is currently residing in Boston, although we will always\u00a0call the Midwest home.<\/p>\n If you are here because you or someone you know is on a similar journey to parenthood, I hope the words you read bring you some sense of understanding and peace.<\/p>\n Here’s to hoping and seeking joy, in all moments of this journey we call life-<\/p>\n Kate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “There is no greater agony\u00a0than bearing an untold story inside you.” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 –Maya Angelou Two miscarriages and a subsequent year of unexplained infertility inspired me to write and eventually share our story in this space.\u00a0 2016 was a year of loss for us, and\u00a02017 left us wondering if we would ever have a child of our own.\u00a0 On our “we don’t have kids so why not?” bucket list vacation to Ireland, we found out that we were pregnant again after a year of not being able to conceive.\u00a0 On March 16th, 2018 we welcomed our rainbow baby, Fiona into this world and began the parenthood chapter of our lives. I’ve\u00a0been a Neonatal ICU nurse for\u00a08 years as a graduate from the University of Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) \u00a0I met my husband in a wedding in 2011 and we married in April of 2013. \u00a0Tony has his PhD in clinical psychology from\u00a0Notre Dame (Go Irish!)\u00a0and is currently doing a post-doctorate research fellowship specializing in sleep deprivation, emotions and memory. Outside of my relationship with infertility and parenthood, I am an enthusiastic crafter and love to restore and up-cycle furniture.\u00a0 Our family of five including our two cavalier king Charles spaniels is currently residing in Boston, although we will always\u00a0call the Midwest home. If you are here because you or someone you know is on a similar journey to parenthood, I hope the words you read bring you some sense of understanding and peace. Here’s to hoping and seeking joy, in all moments of this journey we call life- Kate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8oEBX-4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopemeetsjoy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}