Causes We Care About- Infertility Support
In 2019 when we started trying to grow our family we thought it would happen right away. We were young and healthy and didn't know it at the time, but we were at the beginning of our infertility journey. (To read more about story, scroll below)
It was the most emotionally painful years of our lives. Not only was it was emotionally taxing, but it cost us over $50,000 out of pocket as we didn't have fertility insurance.
Because of this we want to give back and support others going through the same path without much financial support when it comes to insurance.
As a company and brand. we give a portion of our proceeds to organizations that help couples and individuals with those challenges. A few that we donate to that have regular grant opportunities are:
If your interested in hearing a bit more about our path, here's the shortened up timeline of our story goes like this:
Sept 2020: begin testing for possible infertility after 1 year no pregnancy (on both Megan and Kevin)
Jan 2021: meet for the first time with our REI, fertility specialist
Jan - Feb 2021: try naturally with Clomid, no success
Mar - Jun 2021: 3 rounds of IUI, no success
Jul - Aug 2021: no fertility treatments as we prepare for IVF and egg retrieval
Sept 2021: stims and egg retrieval
Oct 2021: no fertility treatment, just an HSG test before FET
Nov 2021: FET #1, results in pregnancy, we are so happy!!
Dec 2021: we hear baby's heartbeat at 6 week appt, only to learn at our 8 week appt that our baby boy longer had a heartbeat and hadn't progressed. this was followed by a D&C. we were so heartbroken
Jan-Mar 2022: healing and waited for the HCG levels to return back to 0 before we could try for a second embryo transfer
March 2022: FET #2, we kept it very private and learned we were pregnant!
December 2022: Our son, Declan was born and we were, and still are, so thankful to have him in our lives!