Kim Hooper had a very unique journey to become a mom of 1 daughter here on earth. She had 4 pregnancies that ended in loss before having a pregnancy with no complications. She talks about the shocking news with the first pregnancy. I was going to have a baby but wait now my life is in danger and I have lost the baby. With another loss she remembers again the medical shock of having to wait for her body to miscarry and trying to go about her normal duties of life with bleeding, being tired and hormones fluctuating. She felt very isolated because people didn't even know she was pregnant. The third pregnancy was a baby boy that ended in a loss during the 2nd trimester. The shock of being told there is no heart beat.
She said I was ready to quit after each loss but after time went by each time, I just believed that one of these are going to be our child on earth and I was committed to that thought. A second ectopic pregnancy and I just wanted my body to be back to a baseline of health. She was told that her egg quantity and quality were not good but she still kept getting pregnant. She was also told she was not a candidate for IVF. A doctor even told her that her embryos were descend to die. Her only choice was to trust her own gut and find a medical provider that understood her. After the 4 losses she went to a new doctor that didn't see any reason medically that she couldn't try again and a fifth pregnancy happened. She now has a little girl.
Kim has co-authored a book that has been released earlier this year where she shares her story. I will have Kim back on an episode soon with her co-authors to talk about the book.
Kim's words of advice and encouragement: I am all about people feeling empowered and they go through this journey and it can strip you of any sense of power or control. It comes down to knowing what you emotional, physically, finically, relationship wise what you can handle when trying again. What you can handle in terms of going through with infertility treatments and all those decisions that have to be made. This experience is just such an opportunity to get in touch with your own inner gut instincts and intuition and it may not match up with what people are telling you to do or what you "should do", but really trust yourself and know that there is no right or wrong to what you decide and there is no right or wrong to the outcome. I think happy endings come in all different shapes and forms.
Kim's Information:
Book website: alltheloveafterloss.com
Social media: @allthelovetalk (Instagram and Twitter)
The book can be bought wherever books are sold, including:
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/all-the-love-healing-your-heart-and-finding-meaning-after-pregnancy-loss-9781684425570/9781684425563
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/All-Love-Healing-Finding-Pregnancy/dp/1684425565/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
My website: kimhooperwrites.com
Social media: @kimhooperwrites (Instagram and Twitter)
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