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Family

 

 

2010 - started dating. Lindsay moved across the country to start her nursing degree. Mike soon relocated to join her. 

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2012 - Lindsay graduated and the pair got engaged and returned to Ontario to Lindsay's family farm. 

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2013 - Wedding year and a private journey for genetic testing and the result. In Vitro Fertilization with Preimplant Genetic Diagnosis (IVF-PGD) was started. 

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2014 - 1st round of IVF-PGD completed with 11 embryos mature for implant but, after testing for HD only 2 were available. Lindsay was pregnant and shared the news of the pregnancy journey alongside her HD results to family and close friends. 

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2015 - Freya was born!

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2016 - Miscarriage and a difficult mental health journey to repeat IVF-PGD for attempts at more HD-free children

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2017 - failed implant. 4th implant was a single embryo that split - unexpected identical twins. After wrapping their heads around a twin pregnancy the following ultrasound shows one fetal demise and a single fetus grew continued to grow.

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2018 - Kane was born!

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2019 - After concerns over a malplaced umbilical cord and placenta placement, Gretta was born health but small!

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2020 - Coronavirus quarantine 

Our Journey

 

Simple Definition of family

 

  • a group of people who are related to each other

  • a person's children

  • a group of related people including people who lived in the past

  • close friends and colleagues

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I admit, I even have my little animal family :)

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