We made it to the second trimester! Someone pinch me! We have officially passed the farthest we’ve ever made it now. Last week after a great day on Capitol Hill advocating for infertility, we headed to Norfolk to visit Nicole and to attend our big 12-week doctor’s appointment with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist (MFM). …
I am kind of on “the other side” now. Not there quite yet, but not in the trenches of infertility either. This new normal is strange and wonderful. I’m happy and still a little scared. I will be until the babies are here in my arms. I am just feeling like a fish out of …
Speak your mind. Speak your heart. “There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo Guess what? It’s time! You wouldn’t think that reproductive rights and access to healthcare would be such a novel idea, but it’s not obvious …
Advocacy Day is almost here. I will be headed to Washington, D.C. next week to meet up with women and men from across the country to raise our voice together to talk about infertility with Congress. As part of a community blogging experience, some of the attendees are answering the five questions below about Advocacy …
Infertility gets its day in the spotlight! I woke up Thursday morning just as shocked as my family and friends to see Erick and I smack dab in the middle of the front page of The Roanoke Times. View the entire front page here. Go here to read the story. Earlier in the week, I …
This week, during National Infertility Awareness Week, I want to acknowledge some people that have made a huge impact on me throughout this journey. People who have inspired me in some way. Laura Laura was my IVF angel. My clinic put me in touch with her because she had unused medications and wanted to donate …
I couldn’t have gotten through all of these years of infertility without a support group. Without other women just like me, struggling and anguishing over the same thing. Most of my support groups are online groups and I have become really close friends with these women. We share with another and we support one another. …
Note: I know that many people that follow this blog are going through infertility themselves. I do plan to blog about Nicole’s pregnancy, so please just skip these posts if it’s too hard for you. We had our 8-week ultrasound on April 12th. Unfortunately, we were not able to go to this appointment, which was …
Recently, President Obama was quoted as saying “To change Washington, you, the American people, are going to have to sustain some passion about this.” It got me thinking that this is what we, the infertility community, have to do as well. Change doesn’t come easy and not only should we all consider contributing in some …
I have been having hip problems since last August. It just started hurting out of the blue. I have a huge loss of movement and pain. At first, I hoped it was temporary and would just go away. It didn’t, so I saw a chiropractor. That didn’t help. Then, I made an appointment with an …
