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17 week anatomy scan results and picture

5/28/12 3:13am by Life and Love in the Petri Dish
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Sorry for the delayed post. I know I made at least a few of you nervous. I was totally wiped out yesterday and had to also prepare a talk for today. This morning, I spoke to 400 military service members for three hours. Yowza. Ex-haus-ting. It went well, but I am glad to have the talk behind me. So...on to the anatomy scan. Yesterday, at 16 weeks, 6 days, I had my first anatomy scan. I thought I would . . .  Read more

The newsfeed of pregnancies.....

5/25/12 12:31pm by Purple_Leopardess
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So the last two weeks have been hard for me the serious Facebook addict. Let me just explain I am unemployed and spend most of my day on this social networking site.I am a woman struggling to conceive. I went through 5 years of TTC with my ex and now we are pretty much a year in to my new partnership with several negative pregnancy tests under my belt.  Read more >

A glimpse into my past...

5/25/12 3:13am by An International Surrogacy Journey
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You may remember that some time ago my step-father delivered some boxes to my house (ultimately to get rid of them because he had foreclosed...we'll not go any more into that). The boxes came from the house I grew up in...that I lived in for 20 years. What was in these boxes?  At the time, I didn't know.  Your guess was as good as mine. We put the boxes in our barn with the intention that I would go through them . . .  Read more

Channeling the Champion Within, Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) Style

5/23/12 8:37pm by Fertility Withi...
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I can connect Infertility with any subject.  Today, I’m drawn to Dancing With the Stars.  If you’ve watched Season 14 you saw actress Sherri Shepherd open up about her experience with Infertility.  She shared a beautiful, loving, and touching story.  We are so thankful she used her voice to help create awareness.  However, that’s not what I have in mind.   Read more >

You Have an Inverted Chromosome

5/21/12 7:30pm by Life and Love in the Petri Dish
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Sometimes the challenges on the road to parenthood feel so overwhelming that we just want to give up. Imagine you'd finally found the perfect egg donor only to discover that one of her chromosomes was inverted and she was no longer a suitable candidate?  Read more

Pivotal Conversations: The Unexpected Room

5/21/12 6:14pm by Mihee Kim-Kort
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I sat for the second time in a room that would eventually become like a second home.  Read more >

Let's see how this goes!

5/21/12 6:09am by eventual.mama
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Hello to anyone who might read this!I am new to the blogging world and I fully expect to have no followers :) I am doing this to help me cope with the struggles of trying-to-conceive (TTC) with the assitance of a fertility clinic (FC).A bit about me: I am a 27 year-old medical professional. I am married to a fantastic man who is fully on-board with all this fertility business. We are currently living in a rental unit but we take possession of our brand new house in about a month! Really excited for that. We have one dog and two cats.  Read more >

Take that, Mr Glucose!

5/18/12 3:12am by An International Surrogacy Journey
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I am feverishly working on a Q and A Part II post, but before I do that I wanted to just give a quick update. Remember that glucose test I was freaking out about?? Well, I passed!! After you drink the sugar crap they give you (No really, it’s crap. It’s gross. At least I think so), you have to get your blood drawn exactly 1 hour afterwards. Your glucose level should be under 140. Mine was 114. Yeah, I gave myself . . .  Read more

Painting my vagina without painting my vagina

5/16/12 11:32am by Gwenn
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My new series of paintings started out as a look at how infertility is marginalized in our society and turned into an exploration of how many behaviors and lifestyles are put down based on a gender binary that was established arbitrarily.  Read more >

Back Under the Knife

5/16/12 3:14am by Bio Girl
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So I went back to the doctor once again on Friday.  They are really starting to love me around that place.  I had a follow up appointment scheduled for this coming Friday, but was just so miserable with pain on my left side that I moved it up a week. They did another ultrasound and found that the cyst on my left side is now 2.5cm (not that much bigger than it was three weeks ago) and that now . . .  Read more