Things are feeling a lot more real. I mean, how am I 27 weeks? Technically 28 weeks on Saturday. It’s moving fast, and I feel like I’m now stuck between wanting her to stay in and wanting her out. Squishy cheeks and all. I don’t have an appointment with my…
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I got to see Queso again because I needed a blood pressure check yesterday. My BP was 133/83, so it was slightly elevated even on my blood pressure meds, but the PA I saw in my doctor’s absence said it was OK. Baby was measuring a little over a week…
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We took Queso (not like she had a choice) to Iowa this weekend for Chris’s grandparents’ 70th wedding anniversary. 70 years, right? That’s pretty amazing and I’m hoping Chris and I can get there someday without killing each other. Olivia loved seeing her cousins and racing around the church and…
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Viability. If you haven’t gone through infertility and loss, you may not even be aware of this milestone. I wrote several weeks ago about how good I was feeling about all this, how I wasn’t thinking of having a miscarriage, of losing this baby — I was able to think…
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For six years, my body couldn’t make babies and it couldn’t keep them when I did. After five embryo transfers and two miscarriages, I finally stayed pregnant with my daughter. I may have struggled to bring her into the world, but breastfeeding was something both of us could do and…
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