I met with Dr. A. three days ago for my pregnancy confirmation appointment, at 7.5 weeks. My blood pressure? Sky high when the medical assistant took it. As usual, I was huffing and puffing having just gotten back to the exam room and that was after they took my weight…
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Here we are at the end of September already. This quarter covered most of the summer, and childcare was looking pretty good for the most part. The girls were in daycare or summer camps which allowed me to continue working my usual four days a week. As I said in…
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The day before I turned 6 weeks, I spent about 80% of my day sleeping. I’d barely found out I was pregnant and hadn’t even told many people, but already I was feeling like a failure. On Sunday, my official 6-week milestone, I laid on the downstairs couch like a…
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I’ve daydreamed about this before. What would happen if I found out I was pregnant all on my own, no infertility treatments. How would I feel? I mean, everyone who’s gone through fertility treatments has to think about this, right? What would it be like to puzzle over symptoms, take…
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Our TTC journey effectively ended when the last two embryos were used. One of those became Emelia and all I wanted and hoped for was that IVF would work one last time and we would have a second child. When we got her, I felt complete. I felt good about…
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