When I was approached to document Chelsea and Dylan in the Project Finding Your Rainbow, I was so honored.

Project Finding Your Rainbow involves a Rainbow Skirt that travels from one Rainbow Mom to the Next.

Its purpose is to document women who have dealt with pregnancy and/or infant loss. What’s even more impressive is that as of Nov 2023, there have been 324 stories!

And without further ado, here is Chelsea and Dylan’s story.

Dylan and Chelsea fell in love hard and fast the summer they met. Their whirlwind summer romance turned into a Thanksgiving engagement. After less than two years together, they were married. By the second anniversary of their engagement, they had lost three babies.

None of those pregnancies were intentional but all of them were loved and wanted.

The following April, Dylan lost his grandmother. He realized how fleeting life is and that week they started officially trying to conceive. It only took a few months for Chelsea to realize they were going to have difficulty and Chelsea went to a doctor who told her to come back the following summer in order to get an infertility diagnosis. Chelsea went back when they had planned and was told no doctor would be able to help her until she had lost 70 lbs. Chelsea tried to explain that her weight gain started when she started a medication prescribed to her but she was dismissed.

Chelsea never returned.

Two more years passed and Chelsea was able to see a doctor who would help with her PCOS diagnosis and her fertility naturally. Their beliefs aligned with hers and they taught her how to chart her cycles in a way that she could understand what was going on in her body. Within six months of seeing them, she was pregnant. Within four weeks of standing in the doorway of their home and showing her husband the positive pregnancy test, Chelsea received a phone call that the pregnancy was not viable and she was going to miscarry.

Chelsea and Dylan had told their families and closest friends. They had started buying baby things. They were planning things they’d do with their baby and their cousin who was due just a few months earlier. Their hearts were broken but they had a renewed hope. After almost five years of fighting for a baby, Chelsea’s body was finally healing. Since then, Chelsea started working harder than ever to improve her health and the chances of carrying to term.

They are waiting on the Lord, and hopeful for what is to come.