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first comes love: MY CURRENT REALITY
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Friday, May 29, 2015. Of course, I'm constantly asking Dr. Google for advice, which only yields trite, useless tips (and often conflicting: Aim for shorter, more frequent feeds! Make sure she drains both breasts at a feeding! It all leaves me feeling like a failure, and it makes me so sad and brokenhearted. Once again, I feel like my body is failing me. Infertility was hard, pregnancy was hard, and now motherho...Im so...
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first comes love: Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. I was just. So. Pregnant. I had fantasized about the magic of pregnancy for four years — imagined how cute I would look in maternity clothes, how much attention I would receive, how I would glow. I still cringe when I look at this picture. Philip and I looked at each other with excitement and terror. This is it! Selfie in the hospital elevator. The maternity ward of the hospital was quiet when w...
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first comes love: Friday, August 08, 2014
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Friday, August 08, 2014. After, we talk about our plan for the evening, for the next day. I have two acupuncture appointments scheduled for FET day: one immediately before and one immediately after the transfer. “Two acupuncture treatments, huh? 8221; Philip says. “Doesn’t that seem excessive? 8220;Yeah, you told me,” he interrupts. So that’s when it starts, roughly speaking. 8221; I say with strained politeness. T...
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first comes love: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. ONCE UPON A TIME. There was a girl who had an enviable life - an amazing husband, a beautiful bungalow-style house, two loving cats, a vibrant career, even a recent promotion! She was in good health, except for one problem: After trying for two and a half years to conceive, she was still barren. In her mind, she counted the days. She and her husband had undergone an insemination, their thi...
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first comes love: Monday, August 04, 2014
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Monday, August 04, 2014. UN-SHRIVELING ONE MEDITATION AT A TIME. One thing I really wanted to try as part of Operation Un-Shrivel My Heart was guided meditation and visualization. There are lots of these programs for sale on the Internets, but I wasn't ready to shell out $20 or more before I even knew if I could sit still for that long. Finally, I found a free download. Which is $4 and worth every fucking penny. Yeah T...
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first comes love: Monday, April 21, 2014
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Monday, April 21, 2014. These last couple of weeks were rough for Philip and me. It began with our final IVF consult, which did not go awesome. Here are some things that happened:. 1 The cheerful woman who came in to take my ultrasound chirped at me: "Let's see if that cyst went away! To which I replied, "Uhhhmm, I don't think I have a cyst? He's the one who will be administering these injections.". I replied. She ...
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first comes love: Friday, May 29, 2015
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Friday, May 29, 2015. Of course, I'm constantly asking Dr. Google for advice, which only yields trite, useless tips (and often conflicting: Aim for shorter, more frequent feeds! Make sure she drains both breasts at a feeding! It all leaves me feeling like a failure, and it makes me so sad and brokenhearted. Once again, I feel like my body is failing me. Infertility was hard, pregnancy was hard, and now motherho...You h...
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first comes love: Wednesday, July 15, 2015
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. WHY I WENT THROUGH INFERTILITY. Why did I go through infertility? It’s a question I’ve asked myself innumerable times. In the almost four years we spent trying to conceive, I cried in a lot of bathrooms, I lost friends, my marriage and faith were put to the test. So, why? Why did I have to go through all of that? For the most part, I obsessed in my own head about my misery and tortured a small...
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first comes love: BIRTH STORY
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Chronicling marriage and the rocky road of trying to start a family. Our Story So Far. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. I was just. So. Pregnant. I had fantasized about the magic of pregnancy for four years — imagined how cute I would look in maternity clothes, how much attention I would receive, how I would glow. I still cringe when I look at this picture. Philip and I looked at each other with excitement and terror. This is it! Selfie in the hospital elevator. The maternity ward of the hospital was quiet when w...
