Help Braden & Emily have a baby.

Braden and I are high school sweethearts and have been together since 2014. We got married in 2020 and in early 2021, we decided we were ready to grow our family.

We were naive to pregnancy loss and believed two pink lines meant we would have a baby in our arms in 8 months or so. Our expectations were proven wrong when we lost our first pregnancy in the summer of 2021. Our medical team told us miscarriage is more common than people think and to try again.

A few months later, our second baby died. No substantial testing was done at the time and we were advised to keep trying because eventually, a pregnancy would stick.

In March of 2022, we lost our third baby. A few more tests were run after that miscarriage but no answers came with the results.

In October that year, our fourth pregnancy ended. We were referred to a doctor at a different hospital. More extensive testing was run, but still no explanation for our recurrent loss.

In March of 2023, we lost our fifth baby. We asked to be referred to a new specialist. Within a few months, Braden and I had been tested for everything doctors can think of—and a number of things I’ve requested from my own research, and we still couldn’t find answers.

In December of 2023, we tried a different approach and I was seen by a functional medicine doctor. That team uncovered a handful of things not working quite right inside my body, and we were hopeful correcting them would allow us to carry a healthy, full-term pregnancy. But it didn’t. In July of 2024, our sixth baby died.

After another miscarriage and uncovering no answers yet again, our medical specialist recommended the use of a Gestational Carrier.

I was heartbroken. I’ve always dreamed of being able to carry and give birth to my children. I wanted my husband to be able to feel baby’s kicks on my belly. I wanted to feel like every other mom. But our desire to hold our baby in our arms outweighs those thoughts, so our seventh pregnancy will be in another woman’s body.

The cost of using a Gestational Carrier is high. From tens of thousands of dollars in agency fees, legal costs, medical expenses, and Carrier compensation, the total investment surpasses $175,000.

We cannot thank you enough for reading our story and for supporting our journey to bring our living baby home with us. We’ll wait our entire lives to hold our first six babies, but we’re praying lucky number seven isn’t too far away from being in our arms.