Our Journey to Grow Our Family.

A story of high stakes, false starts, recalculations, the muck and chaos in pursuit of baby. We struggled, even argued, about where to go on vacation this year.

Formula discrimination and reflux babies. I honestly never thought I would be discriminated against for NOT breastfeeding. Well, it turns out it goes both ways. Since when is it okay to bash someone for formula feeding? September 10, 2013.

This is nothing new for me, but it is different now. Having kids definitely kicked it up a notch. Learning I have a special needs child kicked it up a few more. I hope to wake up tomorrow, just a mom, embracing OUR normal.

Trying to get knocked up with a little help from science. Thursday, June 18, 2015. We finally got the results and recommendations a couple of days ago. We like to start our day by banging ours heads on the wall. I need all of the pacis. She seriously has a problem. We are much too busy to pose for a picture together. Where are the donuts? I heard there were donuts at this party.

A Fragile X carrier shares the ups and downs of TTC. After all that, we got 8 eggs, and only 1 fertilized. We decided not to risk traumatizing it by doing PGD so we transferred a really beautiful embryo, the most beautiful we have ever produced, really early on Day 3. We left no stone unturned, and there were no babies under any stones. Mathnet rocked! My feelings ar.

Monday, April 27, 2015.

My honest account of life with recurrent pregnancy loss. Hello again blog world! March 8, 2015. Less than a month to go. 23 weeks and all is well. First, we entered the second trimester! It worked, and we heard her little .

Out of the blue and into the black. On August 19, 2015. On July 22, 2015. On July 19, 2015. On July 12, 2015. On June 30, 2015.

Somewhere Under the Willow Tree.