It's official....we're having a...

Everything looked great on the ultrasound. She's measuring well at 19 weeks, heartbeat looks good and she had a hilarious case of the baby hiccups. Nathan was absolutely over the moon during the ultrasound. I guess through out this whole process, I'd forgotten how much it means for to him to have a biological child. He was adopted as an infant and the only background info available is that his parents were 100% Italian, lived in NY and both were just teenagers (mom was 17) and his dad was 13. Given the fact that IVF w/ISCI is the only treatment that gives us a chance at parenthood (unless we adopt) we just feel so blessed that this cycle worked and everything looks good so far! Pink, Pink and more Pink!

Seven years today....

Since that sunny day at the church where we said "I do". It's hard to believe it's been that long.


"Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.
The last of life for which the first was made"
Robert Browning




I know we’re only promised today, but I look forward to many tomorrows as we walk this path of life together.

Your insurance saved you...WHAT??

Holy frijoles! I glanced at the refill prescription info as we picked up my Zofran last night from the pharmacy. That GENERIC "no barfiness" medication has my insurance co. paying $683 dollars per bottle. One bottle of 30 pills(I take them every 6 hours on the dot or the non-stop vomiting starts) lasts me 2 weeks. So basically my insurance will end up paying $10K for me to be barf free. This is the same insurance company that refuses to cover my $32.00 a month OB prescribed vitamins. The workings of insurance companies are very strange and obviously beyond my pea-brained intellect!! 

Last night, I just couldn’t stop thinking about all of the thousands of dollars my poor body and this little peanut have absorbed in medications since we started treatments back in the fall. The endless bottles of Repronex, Gonal-F pens, progesterone shots, trigger shots, etc. We women are so long suffering and patient when it comes to infertility and the treatment protocols. I know oftentimes we don't feel it, but can you imagine our significant others doing daily injections, popping pills, submitting to endless ghastly exams one after another, charting temps, keeping track of ovulation...it is a highly amusing and scary perspective, eh?

All of this in our deeply personal and quiet quest for that desperately desired child. All I can say is GIRL POWER! And by God's grace and the prayers and support of others, we make it through. Always a changed person when we emerge, but I think that I can honestly say that the infertility path that I've walked has shaped me into a much more empathetic, patient, understanding and more deeply grounded person. It's strange to look back and not remember what you were like on the other side of infertility, but I know that in the end we all emerge stronger and more resolved about the things that really matter in life.