So the other morning I was out walking the dog, and I passed an acquaintance from church on the street. Until recently, I had always know her as “K’s mom”, as her oldest boy was in one of my Sunday School classes several years back. But last fall, I ran into B at a local [...]

This past weekend we headed to Matt’s hometown for baby shower #2. It was mostly family, with a few brave friends thrown in. It was much smaller than the shower here, but it was co-ed, which was nice. It was great to catch up with people we don’t get to see that frequently. Again, the [...]

The other day while I was out on my walk, I noticed that our neighbors had a bunch of pink shiny balloons on their front porch and a “It’s a Girl!” sign. I actually had not known she was even pregnant until a few weeks ago, when I got a glimpse of her very pregnant [...]

So I’ve had a lot of new thoughts over the last 14 or so weeks, ones that I haven’t really been able to put into any sort of cohesive post. Mostly they center around the issue of infertility and how being pregnant hasn’t really changed anything for me. I think the only way I can [...]

Today was my second OB appointment. Matt will mostly opt out of the routine exams since he is such a rockstar at work and doesn’t really want to see some guy take a look up my hoo hoo. Just kidding about the rockstar part. Kind of. Anyway, today I got to hear the heartbeat! There [...]

So a few weeks ago, the agency had the first of it’s home-study preparation classes, and we weren’t there.
Back in September, when we were meeting with Dr. Awesome for our diagnostic follow-up, he said that in his 25 years of fertility practice, he has seen one couple with our situation conceive naturally.
Well, apparently now there [...]

I recently found this series of videos via Julie at a little pregnant. These are ads for a fertility drug made by EMD Serono, a fertility drug I priced out, read up on, and got hives thinking about. But anyway, the videos are really, really funny. And so incredibly true. Every single second of them. [...]

Yesterday I was on the phone catching up with an old friend, and as is typically the case these days, our conversation turned to adoption and eventually infertility. I was describing some of the reasons why we chose not to pursue IVF, and she actually understood. It was sort of surprising, just to actually have [...]

Our orientation meeting with the agency is one week away! I alternate between being totally elated and being totally overwhelmed. Elated that we can finally begin the application process, officially. Overwhelmed that we still have so far to go and so much to do before we are holding a baby. Anxious that there will be [...]

A couple months ago I made an appointment with my doctor’s PA to get some stitches removed. There had been an incident involving a loaf of bread, a knife, and my thumb (If I invite you over for lunch, you should be prepared to take me to the ER.). The PA was looking at my [...]