The Life I Have Imagined

I love my sisters.  All four of them. (3 bio/1 step)  They are the only ones I've got, but dear lord can this one test me.  It's De...

I read things all the time that I think about sharing, I really should just start of runner of article links in my sidebar (which I now hav...

The kids are 8 1/2 months old (nearly eight adjusted) and have surpassed their time inside, 36w4d, with their time outside, 37w2d, and t...

Thanks Linda for the post topic!  She was wondering about my decision to leave my job for our latest cycle.  This came after the decision t...

I've been dreading this day all year long.  How is one supposed to feel when you are both missing someone you never really knew and so e...

Because I need another reminder that I should be 37 weeks pregnant, the formula companies are inundating me with boxes of baby formula.  I r...

I debated writing about this at all, as people may wonder if I'm trying to garner sympathy, when I actually don't particularly enjoy...

As much as anyone has told me this, there still doesn't seem anything "normal" about what we've been through. Normal peopl...

It's now been eight weeks since I was eight weeks pg, but instead of 16 of course, I'm hopefully just two weeks out from starting BC...

Interesting article on fertility, infertility and pregnancy loss. Excerpt... Fertility, subfertility and superfertility Put simply, pregnan...

But we just keep living the same story over and over again... My post m/c hysteroscopy, HSG, 3-D saline u/s were this morning and went fine....

I hope everyone is having a great Valentine's Day, and had a great weekend. We had a lovely time at The Pen. Seriously, every time I go ...

The understatement of the century, right? Or maybe just the theme of my life? Rather the program I'm going to tonight at Pulling Down ...

My beta hCG finally came back from this morning, nine hours later... It was 3.9. It needs to be 2 or less to not have to continue testing. ...

I just heard back on the tests we had run late last week, much earlier than expected. Don't worry, I requested a paper copy, just to be ...

Well, we had our "WTF" mtg.(follow-up mtg. w/our RE to our IVF cycle) today. I, of course, had high hopes for sitting down with Dr...

I feel like I've developed bipolar disorder in the last three weeks. I'm up, I'm down, I'm flat, I'm all over the place....

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope" -Martin Luther King, Jr. I am very disappointed that my emplo...

1) Why someone would elect to get a D&C after miscarrying. - It seemed kind of vain to me how my RE explained it, but now that I am in m...

And my hCG is down to 51 (from 335 last Thurs.), the lowest it's been in over six weeks. I am bleeding again/still, passing several big ...