MEET ALEX
I love babies and I love mamas. I am passionate about birth and motherhood. My life-long love affair started when I was very young loving on my baby brother, I dressed up as a mom or babysitter for Halloween many years, and started babysitting the week I turned 12.
My husband and I started trying for a baby in 20…and thus started my infertility journey. Two years in and no positive pregnancy tests, but also no money for fertility treatments led us to foster care. I became a mama for the first time with about 30 minutes notice in August 2019 when I picked up the cutest 3 day old baby girl from the hospital. I loved on her for 15 months until she was reunited with her birth parents. Now I simply love her from afar. We fostered 3 other children over the next year or so.
In 2021 a move to California put an end to our foster care journey and gave us the means to pursue fertility treatments. I did 4 medicated IUIs in 2022 and never saw a positive pregnancy test so we moved on to IVF. My egg retrieval in October 2022 resulted in 8 euploid embryos and we started preparing for transfer!
In January 2023 we transferred one embryo and I saw those precious 2 pink lines for the very first time, and the second, third, twentieth…I took a lot of pregnancy tests! We saw and heard our precious boy’s heartbeat February 21st and it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard. In March 2023 we were discharged from our fertility clinic and I was registered with the local birth center.
Just three days later my world fell apart, the bleeding started, a trip to the ER confirmed there was no longer a heartbeat, and I miscarried naturally at home that night. Losing my son Ethan was the hardest thing I’ve ever been through.
As we prepared for a second transfer life threw another plot twist and my husband and I decided that our marriage was not the right thing for either of us. I have not given up on my dream of holding my own baby in my arms, but through grief and heartache a new dream was born. I have found my calling as a doula. Supporting moms on their journeys through infertility, pregnancy, birth, and those early days postpartum brings me so much joy and fills my life with love and purpose.
Besides all things babies I also love reading, weightlifting, dressing up for Halloween, Gilmore Girls, GBBO, hanging out with my girl friends, playing games, and baking!
