That’s right, TWO heartbeats! We are having twins! I’m sooooo excited and am so blessed! A decade of barrenness and now a bloom of family! I’m reading and learning so much about twin pregnancy which is SO different from singleton pregnancy advice so I’ll post more soon. I go back again on Friday for another u/s because baby B was difficult to measure. I’ll post pics and more information! Thank you God!
A few weeks ago I pointed you to a post over at PhD in Parenting about homeschooling and public schooling. It was a great post because it generated so much discussion! As any good thought provoking post will do, it has stayed in my mind and by formulating my response to it my own views on learning have solidified. So, before I get started, I’m going to say I will be disagreeing with Annie on nearly every point and using her post to make counterpoints – but this isn’t in any way meant to be an attack on her as… Continue reading Home School vs. Public School
Ok, I’m so ashamed of my blog-etiquette lately! I have literally not read anyone else’s blog in WEEKS! My Google Reader had like 3000+ and I had to say “mark all as read.” Plus, I haven’t been commenting or even returning comments. I always hate that at the moment I’m most being supported by my readers is when I’m usually so self-absorbed that I’m not reciprocating. Sigh. Please know you comments have meant so much to me and I’ll be back in the swing of things soon! (Especially huge thanks to Dionna who is doing a fabulous job over at… Continue reading Beta #2 and Blog Guilt
I had my first beta on Wednesday and it was 503 which is excellent! (they want over 100).
I’m definitely feeling pregnant. My boobs are VERY sore and it hurts a little when Aellyn latches on (but on a side note: YEAH! for nursing through FET!!!). I have tiny pimples all over my face. I’m constipated. I’m nauseous. Everything smells weird.
Yep, I’m knocked up!
I had a dream that I had a boy. He was blonde and had blue eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed… Continue reading Beta Is In!
So, obviously (an not at all surprising to most of you) I did not manage to wait until Friday to POAS.
I dare say…that is two lines? A little darker today? I’d call that PREGNANT.
Yes, I have a whole WEEK until my beta. But, today I’m pregnant and I am going to enjoy it as much as I can. Of course, today I’m “spotting” – TMI alert – actually it is more “pink tinged toilet paper” nothing red and nothing in my undies. I think this happened… Continue reading 2 Pink Lines
What a weekend. On Friday we transfered 2 positively gorgeous hatching blastocysts! The embryologist said the “couldn’t look any more perfect.” She also thinks that one of them had two cell masses (more on that in a minute). On Saturday I turned 35. I’m praying my birthday present was implantation!
So, here are my beauties with some explanation.
First, most people I’ve shown this to says “It looks like it is dividing!” No, it is actually 100s of cells at this point and if you could see it in 3D it is a fluid-filled sphere. The reason it… Continue reading Reverence
…and are growing nicely. Transfer tomorrow at 1:30PM.
Please LORD let my babies come home into my arms! Thank you for watching over them and guiding the hands of the embryologists… Continue reading Babies Survived the Thaw!
You know I’ve written to you before when we were trying to get the Partnership for Families Grant for IVF but I wanted to write to you again on this momentous day.
Today the wonderful embryologists will be taking you out of your protective cryopreservation state so you can start growing again and come home to me. Your life is so precious and I hope I’ve been a good steward of it in keeping you frozen until now. What a journey you’ve already been on! It is like science fiction when you think of it – you are… Continue reading Dear Snowflakes,
I had my lining check yesterday. 13 cm, tri-layered, good and fluffy! Couldn’t ask for better. I start PIO on Sunday as well as Medrol and Tetracycline. Babies thaw Wednesday and transfer will be sometime on Friday. I’m so excited!
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about prayer. Whenever I go through a cycle I feel so “wrong” in my prayers. Because everything seems like a smokescreen to my real intent – Please God give me a baby! I feel like my prayers *should* be a specific way. I should say things like “your will be done” and not… Continue reading On Prayer - groans that words cannot express
Recently a DJ from an Orlando, FL radio station interviewed a midwife about nursing in public. The DJ would prefer that women not nurse in public, and his questions to the midwife were very anti-breastfeeding in nature. At one point he said something to the effect of, “well if women are allowed to breastfeed anywhere, then smokers should be allowed to smoke anywhere they want.”
Today’s piece is part of a collaborative effort that seeks to demonstrate why smoking in public is not an appropriate analogy for nursing in public (N.I.P.). Please visit the other writers’ sites to learn
