After a miscarriage, gestational diabetes, and 6 finger pricks a day, we're 4 weeks from meeting our son
My name is Anderson, I'm 33, and I wanted to come here and share my wife's high-risk pregnancy story and how it's been going so far.
My wife's name is Vanessa. She's 36 and she's 33 weeks pregnant. She's being induced on September 15th, one week before she turns 37. Our son's name is Lucas.
We've been together for 6 years and married for 3. This is her second pregnancy. The first one was 2 years ago and she ended up having a miscarriage at 6 or 7 weeks. It hit both of us hard, but it was way worse for her, since she was the one carrying him.
We both started therapy so we could pick ourselves back up and try again. In October 2025 she started getting ready. She started seeing her gynecologist regularly, started taking supplements, got back into exercising and fixed her diet. All her bloodwork improved and her OB gave us the green light. We tried for 2 months and nothing happened. We were already starting to think it just wasn't going to happen for us, and then her period was late. That's how we found out, at 4 weeks.
We were so happy. We started the whole routine of bloodwork, ultrasounds and OB appointments. But at the end of the first trimester we got hit with gestational diabetes. The fear came right back, along with that awful question of whether it was all going to happen again.
From there the appointments got more frequent and the ultrasounds went to every 2 weeks. She started insulin, checking her blood sugar 6 times a day, taking her blood pressure every day, tracking her weight, drinking 2.5 liters of water a day, plus a bunch of new meds like low dose aspirin, calcium and iron.
With all that going on it's really easy to lose track. Everything had to be written down and the whole history had to go to the OB. Paper wasn't realistic, so we tried a bunch of apps, and none of them covered everything. For a high risk pregnancy she would have needed 3 different apps, and she'd still be writing her blood pressure and blood sugar on a piece of paper to bring to the appointment.
That's when I decided to build an app just for her, with everything she needed to manage the gestational diabetes and the pregnancy as a whole. I go with her to every appointment and every scan, and I'm the one who remembers her meds, so I knew exactly what she was dealing with and what she actually needed. I kept adjusting it around her real routine.
The first version took me 2 weeks. Full of bugs, obviously, but she loved it right away. Everything was in one place, it was private, and no more carrying paper around. And it actually worked. Her OB could see the full history, figured out where the blood sugar control was going wrong, adjusted her insulin doses, and since week 16 everything has been under control.
I've kept improving it since then. It was her idea that other women going through this should have it too. I named it after her, Vanessa. It started as something just for her and now there are other people using it, which honestly still feels strange to me.
On Tuesday the 18th she hits 34 weeks. 4 weeks to go and soon Lucas will be here with us.
I hope our story helps or comforts someone going through something similar. It does work out in the end, even when it's really hard in the middle of it.
Send us good vibes for a smooth delivery and a healthy baby boy.