How babies are made

When I was pregnant with O, I bought this t-shirt for Ben to wear to our baby shower (couple’s shower) because I thought it was hysterical. He still has it (though hasn’t worn it since) and we were joking it would be hysterical to put “a team of doctors, nurses and embryologists” under the I [...]

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The girls are back!

So after 19 months of nursing O, my boobs have seen better days. They’re not knocking my knees and interfering with my walking or anything, but they have a definite “ski slope” shape on top…until now! They’re back! It’s like they filled back in over night! Hi ladies! I missed you! I also woke up [...]

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Somebody jumped me in a dark alley

flipped me on my belly and took out years of pent up agression on me by pummeling my ass with their fists. That’s what it feels like. I just didn’t gave this problem with the PIO last time. Maybe adding the Del Estrogen suspended in castor oil (aka rubber cement) pushed my bruised butt over [...]

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I was just thinking about nursing…

…and how ready I was to wean O at 19 months. How every day I resented the time it took to nurse him at that night b/c I was so tired of always having to do bed time. How happy I was when he weaned himself. I wish I’d known it might have been the [...]

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Guess I do have more to say

My friend Kerry was recently featured with her family in the NYT. (Her blog about her IVF w/ ICSI, twin boys and NICU stay can be found here: ourstorkgotlost.com The topic of the NYT article was on “The Gift of Life and its Price” It had to do with the high cost of twin+ pregnancies [...]

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Meanwhile, back on the farm

Child #1 continues a long tradition of foiling my efforts to get a cute Halloween picture. This was the best out of 100 shots

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I want another one like this!

Maybe Ben and I are some sort of genetic mis-match. Maybe our chromosomes are completely messed up. I don’t know, but seriously, how could we be THAT screwed up if the kid we do have came out this perfect? I have never had a school picture this cute in my LIFE, and O hit it [...]

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What’s next, the clap?

A few people have asked me how Owen’s coping with his parents (mostly his Mom, Ben’s a rock) going bat-shit crazy. Well, he definitely knows something’s up. He thinks I’ve been “sick” so has been really gentle around me, but he also seems a little worried about it. I fell asleep on the couch in [...]

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“So how many are you going to transfer?”

I’ve had this question asked of me a few dozen times in the last few days, so I thought I’d post on our answer. The answer is… we don’t know yet. Probably 2, but maybe 1. If the embryologist and RE make a compelling argument for putting back one superstar, we may be tempted. I [...]

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The light at the end of the tunnel….

Yesterday was definitely a low point. I was just freaking out that things weren’t going well, that everything would be for nothing, that it was going to just draw on forever. Then Owen got home. He was having one of those days where he just lights up your world. Happy. Cute. Sweet. We had a [...]

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