HOST SOLO EPISODE: “He’s Finally Here” | Chloe Davidson on the Birth of Her Rainbow Baby, the Hardest Parts of Postpartum & Finding Joy After Loss

Welcome back to Her Kind of Brave.

Today you are joining me, Chloe Davidson, as we journey through what it actually took to get my beautiful son Cooper in my arms.

He is now four months old.

And so this episode is not just talking about what it took to get him here, which was a big helping hand from my incredible doctor, Dr. Ki Ong, who worked tirelessly to find answers for me and my husband on why we had had four consecutive miscarriages post the birth of my daughter, Layla, five years ago.

And the team at Monash IVF, they helped hold my hand every step of the way through the ups and downs of IVF.

But this episode is not just solely about that.

This episode is my birth experience and ultimately what it actually feels like to finally hold a miracle in your arms that you were never honestly really sure that you would get to hold.

And it's a pretty emotional one, but I just want to say thank you.

to all of you for your beautiful messages of love and support over this time.

I have deeply appreciated it and I'm not sure I would have gotten through everything without the care of the community where we lean on each other and tell these stories.

So now I want to tell you all about what it feels like to actually be here.

If you haven't already listened and you want

to learn more about my journey to Cooper, You can go back and listen to either of my previous episodes.

My first episode was in season one and it dives deeply into my four miscarriages, my journey with infertility, the IVF and all my immune treatments that I underwent while I was also supporting my husband through his cancer treatment.

And then in season two, I shared my follow-up.

just post a very scary thing that had happened to me, which was to have my gallbladder removed and surgery and put under whilst pregnant with my miracle baby that had taken three years for miscarriages, multiple rounds of IVF to finally make.

And that was incredibly scary.

As you can imagine, any pregnancy after loss is just its own kind of hell.

You really struggle to be able to connect with that pregnancy, or at least I did, because I was so scared that if something was going to happen, it was likely that it could happen to me.

But we made it through that gallbladder surgery and we came out even stronger.

And we made it through the subchorionic hematomas, the bleeds.

And basically that pops us up right in the middle of my timeline, which is around that 20 weeks I had recovered.

And I started to be able to believe that maybe this could actually become a thing.

Maybe I could hold my miracle baby in my arms.

We weren't totally without complications.