Morgan (right) and Marquise Goodwin.Photo: Morgan Goodwin/Instagram
Marquise Goodwinand his wifeMorgan Goodwinhave experienced losing three babies, but the couple are still determined to become parents.
In a candid chat with PEOPLE, the professional hurdler shared that she and her husband, a wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, are “definitely going to try again.”
“I am not giving up on creating my family. This is my purpose,” says Morgan, 25. “I feel as though one of my life’s purposes is to build a family of Goodwin kids running around. I’m not going out without a fight.”
Morgan and Marquise, 28,lost their twin boyslast November at 19 weeks, four days gestation. Nearly a year earlier, theylost their premature sonat 19 weeks along. The couple also experienced a pregnancy loss after Morgan miscarried following “a slip-up” in college.
“I’m going to fight until I get what I want. I believe that,” she shares with PEOPLE. “I believe that God is going to bless us.”
Morgan Goodwin/Instagram
Opening up about the loss of their twins, Morgan tells PEOPLE the boys were bornafter her water broke prematurely, leading the doctors to perform a procedure to remove her previously implantedtransabdominal cerclageso they could deliver the babies, who ultimately did not survive.
Morgan and Marquise revealed their loss in January,explaining in a videoposted to their YouTube channel that Morgan had experienced painful contractions and lost the twins due to complications.
Speaking of their difficult journey, Morgan reveals that every hardship the couple has experienced has “just brought us closer together.”
Morgan revealed to PEOPLE that she and her husband decided to share their story to potentially “help someone else” traveling along a similar difficult path.
“It’s something that [many] women experience but nobody talks about it. So you don’t talk about it,” she says. “When you experience amiscarriage or you experience pregnancy lossand you don’t see anybody talking about it, then you think that nobody else is going to do it. And you get to a point where it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t want to talk, I don’t want to tell anybody that I had a miscarriage.’ ”
” ‘Let’s not tell anybody that I had a miscarriage because Idon’t want nobody to think that I’m fault. I don’t want nobody to think that my body can’t do what it’s supposed to do,’ ” Morgan explains. “So I feel like it’s a good thing to let other women know that you’re not the only one that has lost babies.”
source: people.com
