Cate Infertile Rainbow Mama

Cate Infertile Rainbow Mama IVF Mom to Twinbryos! Motherhood, infertility, home reno & working mom stuff! Spontaneously 🤰🏼 after IVF
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World IVF Day. 🧫 A day I never anticipated needing to appreciate. Infertility was a journey I never planned, but it led ...
07/25/2025

World IVF Day. 🧫 A day I never anticipated needing to appreciate. Infertility was a journey I never planned, but it led me to a world of incredible science that gave us the opportunity and hope for a family.

IVF was not the blueprint we ever had expected for our family, but it gave us a chance to build one. We’re incredibly grateful for the advancements that have made this possible for countless others and it is critical that there is access to IVF to all. We all must continue to advocate for the right to IVF and that it will be forever be protected.

Huge thanks to all the embryologists, doctors, nurses, and everyone involved in reproductive medicine. Your work is truly life-changing and you don’t hear that often enough. and of course, Happy 47th birthday to Louise Joy Brown, the pioneer of IVF!

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❤️🤍💙Counting my blessings endlessly.
07/09/2025

❤️🤍💙

Counting my blessings endlessly.

Happy one month to you sweet boy!🩵Updates🧸mills’ hair is brown but we are starting to see blonde and strawberry popping ...
05/15/2025

Happy one month to you sweet boy!🩵

Updates

🧸mills’ hair is brown but we are starting to see blonde and strawberry popping through
🧸Miller remains very chill and we are hoping it sticks
🧸He is 6 pounds 15 ounces so he has gained weight but he is .42 percentile and his trajectory has gone down, so some work to do there
🧸Booking LC to help determine the issues with feeding
🧸Working on trying not to freak out about the weight stuff but it feels like Deja vu
🧸They don’t measure length like my old doctors office in Chicago but the nurse did measure for me and he is about 21 inches long so up from 19.5
🧸Tantrums have been the new norm around here, I know it’s been a big adjustment for both Cal + Elle so I’m trying my best to be patient. Advice is welcome!

We Love you Millsie! 🩵

🌸Bereaved Mother’s Day🌸 On this day, we honor all Mamas:Mamas of a stillbornMamas who had an ectopicMamas who lost embry...
05/04/2025

🌸Bereaved Mother’s Day🌸 On this day, we honor all Mamas:

Mamas of a stillborn
Mamas who had an ectopic
Mamas who lost embryos
Mamas who miscarried
Mamas who suffered multiple miscarriages RPL
Mamas in the wait
Mamas who TFMR
Mamas who want to be Mama’s
Mamas of Neonatal loss
Mamas of child loss
Mamas of infant loss
Mamas who had a molar pregnancy
Mamas who had a blighted o**m
Mamas of reduction
Mamas who lost their Mama
Mamas who had a chemical pregnancy
Mamas whose adoption fell through
Mamas who gave their baby to adoption
Mamas of vanishing twin

Thinking of all of you this weekend🤍

Happy 1 week to our miracle boy, celebrating this incredible blessing on Easter Sunday! It’s been the most amazing week ...
04/20/2025

Happy 1 week to our miracle boy, celebrating this incredible blessing on Easter Sunday! It’s been the most amazing week getting to know you my sweet little peanut. 🥹

Guess what?!?!We are breaking out of the joint! He passed the second car seat test. 🥹😭🙏🏻🥰More updates:🩵Breastfeeding isn...
04/15/2025

Guess what?!?!

We are breaking out of the joint! He passed the second car seat test. 🥹😭🙏🏻🥰

More updates:
🩵Breastfeeding isn’t going great but this is normal for preterm babies. I’m excited to get home to get into a routine and try to pump.
🩵Taking formula like a champ
🩵He only lost a little weight and now weighs 5 pounds, 6 ounces. Little peanut
🩵My mom bought a going home outfit, thanks Mom. Little guy doesn’t fit into it but I was so happy to have a cute going home outfit. Don’t worry his hospital outfit comes tomorrow haha
🩵He is just such a chill adorable little guy
🩵Don’t mind my outfit, I also didn’t pack any going home clothes for myself so I have to go home in my Jammie’s
🩵Unsolicited advice, pack your hospital bag, and prepare your main essentials for the baby at home.

‘M’ is for Moon Beam 🌙We are so excited to share our perfect Baby Moon Beam, born fast and furious April 13th, at 36 wee...
04/14/2025

‘M’ is for Moon Beam 🌙

We are so excited to share our perfect Baby Moon Beam, born fast and furious April 13th, at 36 weeks 4 days. Though he be little he is quite the strong willed little guy. We have been blessed to skip the NICU as he continues to grow stronger by the minute.

In perfect theme with this guy, he continues to surprise us, keep us on our toes and have lots of unexpected adventures for us. Lots and lots more to update you all on but I wanted his internet aunties to know baby Moon and Mama Moon are both doing great! We also appreciate your love prayers and support, I know I say that a lot but it means the world to have you all cheering for our little family of 5 🧸 Oh and thanks for your patience on the update. It was a crazy day and night and we are finally settling in 🤍

PS- we still don’t know his name. So he remains baby M, Baby Moon Beam or Baby Moon. The nurses like that name as is 🥰

Have a baby on ⛳️ the final day of the Masters with  leading?! Let’s do this, it is a good day to have a baby!The  are h...
04/13/2025

Have a baby on ⛳️ the final day of the Masters with leading?! Let’s do this, it is a good day to have a baby!

The are helping us get through the intense labor moments and the best kind of distraction!!! 🏌🏽

Can’t wait to meet you little man, praying every second of today that you arrive safely🙏🏻

🧸And that’s a wrap on baby ultrasounds for ... life! It is so crazy that it was my last one ever. Sadly, baby boy was so...
04/11/2025

🧸And that’s a wrap on baby ultrasounds for ... life! It is so crazy that it was my last one ever. Sadly, baby boy was so far down and facing to my back that we couldn’t even get a picture, not one! That has never happened before and ironically when it does, it is the last ultrasound i will ever have. However, the good news outweighs not getting a last ultrasound photo because he is HEAD down. I mean really far down there, so he is no longer breech! We still have space and time to go but I do hope and pray he stays head down so we don’t need to do an ECV or planned C-Section.

Updates on the 36.5 week appointment
💕Baby weighs 5 lbs 13 oz, and is 23rd percentile. I asked if that was ok considering he was 44th percentile at my last scan, but they said it was ok
💕He is head down, like realllllly down, all the way down on my cervix
💕No longer breech
💕She showed me where his head was which then makes sense why I have been having horrible pain on my pelvic bone
💕She said Symphysis P***s Dysfunction can be more common after multiple pregnancies and combined with this head being so far down, that can cause it
💕We talked about PT for it but between costs and lack of time on my end, she said rest as much as I can and at this point it might not help anyways
💕Cervical check shows 2cm dilated on the outside, but only 1 on the inside. I never even know they checked inside. But its official my cervix is no longer closed!
💕Got blood work to check my thyroid and iron levels, TBD when those come in
💕Weekly appointments from here on out!

So that is the update, we go back on Wednesday to another check! It is crazy to think if this baby came when Cal did it would only be a week and half away or when Eloise came, 2.5 weeks away. Eeeek!

Ps- those are all my ultrasound photos from this pregnancy, so many less ultrasounds than my IVF pregnancies!

“I wish more women realized that helping another woman win, cheering her on, praying for her, or sharing a resource with...
03/08/2025

“I wish more women realized that helping another woman win, cheering her on, praying for her, or sharing a resource with her, does not take away from the blessings coming to them. In fact, the more you give, the more you receive. Empowering women doesn’t come from selfishness but rather from selflessness.” -Selene Kinder

Happy International Women’s Day!💃🏼

In my *3s* era ✨30 weeks in the  3rd trimester. It’s wild how fast it’s going and I feel like so many of you keep saying...
02/28/2025

In my *3s* era ✨

30 weeks in the 3rd trimester. It’s wild how fast it’s going and I feel like so many of you keep saying the same thing. And what’s wild is now having gone through this with Elle and cal, I know that the 3s go by the fastest (and the slowest). Before we know it he’s going to be here! We are getting so close little pup. 🥹 Can’t wait to meet you in two months.

30 week growth scan for our little 🌙 BeamUpdates✨Baby is a little peanut compared to his brother at 44th percentile✨Meas...
02/27/2025

30 week growth scan for our little 🌙 Beam

Updates
✨Baby is a little peanut compared to his brother at 44th percentile
✨Measuring 3 lbs 7 ounces
✨New estimated due date May 6th which means I’m 30 and 1 today
✨baby is still breech. All three babies have been breech so this is no shock. I often wonder if it’s because of so many uterine surgeries especially my septum removal and D&C
✨Possible ECV if he doesn’t flip. I understand the risk and I did do an ECV with Eloise and it worked out for us that we were able to do a vaginal delivery.
✨Final scan at 36 weeks to see and make a game plan about possible ECV or planned c section if he stays breech. My hope is he flips but my babies love to stay breech or transverse
✨I decided against induction for now and there is a wait list anyways. Due to this not being as high risk as my first two pregnancies and not being an IVF pregnancy ideally I would love to go into labor on my own for once.
✨So now we wait and see what this baby does in settling head down. Still lots of time for that!
✨Starting the bi weekly doc appointments and has my first one today. It’s starting to get close!!!!

As with my other two little tikes, trying to get the 3-d image was almost impossible because his hand was over his face. With Eloise we did a private scan five times before we got a clear image. Check out the comparisons. This baby from what I can see, looks identical to Cal’s ultrasound. Hoping I get a better 3-d image at the 36 week scan! 🙏🏻

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