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  • Acupuncture may boost pregnancy success rates

    Infertility News
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am
    When a couple is trying to have a baby and can't, it can be emotionally and financially draining.

  • Valentine's Day

    Child Bearing Hips
    Cece
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    When I was younger and still single, I used to get some cute Valentine's day cards and put them in the mail to all my female friends. Some were in relationships, some were single - but I figured it is always nice to get mail on a day when the hype is all about being loved and remembered. So I would send little packages to the special people in my life and hope it made them smile.As time went on, I've fallen out of doing that. No reason why, either. And this year, one of my Facebook friends posted the coolest thing: (Source here)Totally simple to make and really cool! My plan is to make a…

  • Bah. Sick.

    Maybe If You Just Relax
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:06 pm
    Olivia was sick. 106 degree fever sick. Bad ear infection. On the mend. Ainsley is...sick? I mean, she is technically always sick considering that her lungs suck ass (instead of air) and she needs a machine to breathe for her. But she has been doing some scary, purple-turning stuff. It might be a virus or infection but It might be her pulmonary hypertension getting worse and that is just

  • Because I just got taller

    Write Mind Open Heart
    Lavender Luz
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Pin itI had an biennial physical this week. Everything was great and one vital statistic was better than great: I am a half-inch taller than I used to be. I attribute it to yoga. A steady yoga practice can put space into one’s spine to counter the compression that comes over time. I began practicing [...]

  • Public misconceptions about who actually benefit from state benefits {guest post}

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    Dresden
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    There is a vision of what an average welfare recipient looks like. None of it is pretty. Very little of it is accurate. When I tell people who I advocate for – people with autism and with intellectual disabilities, reactions usually come close to “oh that’s so noble..” it’s clear people believe it is a [...]
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  • 377th Friday Blog Roundup

    Lollipopgoldstein
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
    Updated with name of app (see below) I have been putting off going to see my general practitioner for a yearly checkup because I’m afraid of what she’ll say about my eating habits/lack of exercise.  I’ve stopped running for the time being while I’m trying to finish a manuscript, and I’ve always eaten like crap.  [...]

  • The Other Mother

    Lollipopgoldstein
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:28 am
    So right after I posted that manifesto on defining womanhood and Josh moved the stroller back to the basement storage room, a woman wrote that she saw my posting on the listserv and wanted to know if she could buy it.  I froze not knowing what to do.  The woman was pregnant with twins, due [...]

  • Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady Asks How We Define Womanhood

    Lollipopgoldstein
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am
    Just like the movie, The Iron Lady, this post isn’t really about Margaret Thatcher at all, at least not in the political or historical sense.  It is just a long question about who is writing the Dictionary of You. I have a double snap-and-go currently in my front hallway, this behemoth that has been hanging [...]

  • How Many Blog Visitors is A Lot of Blog Visitors?

    Lollipopgoldstein
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    Remember back when it was newsworthy that Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to first hit one million followers on Twitter? That was exciting in the moment, but once that flag was firmly planted in the ground, it became a race to see who could gain 10 million followers (Lady Gaga). Or a race to see [...]

  • The Ethics of Deleting Posts or Comments

    Lollipopgoldstein
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
    I recently noticed something on self-hosted WordPress blogs: unlike Blogger where the comment-leaver can delete their comment after posting, on self-hosted WordPress blogs, the only person who can do the deleting is the owner of the blog. This fact to me speaks volumes about the division that exists in the online world about deleting — [...]
 
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  • 15 months have passed

    Wishing 4 One
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:45 am
    Superbaby will be 15 months old in a few days and I can't believe it. No apologies for not posting for a few months, I have no excuse other than this crazy active little boy taking ALL my time. I am enjoying every single moment too. We are now in Dahab our favorite place on the Red Sea. Been here a week now and looks like we will stay another. This time we are in a beautiful chalet right on the water. Two bedrooms, a living roon, open kitchen lots of room for Superbaby to run around. We wake up to the Red Sea waves crashing and the view out the window is amazing. Superbaby is crazy happy…

  • Almost a year old

    Wishing 4 One
    13 Oct 2011 | 5:56 pm
    Man am i bad, I have not been here since August! I always said I was going to maintain this blog after Superbaby arrived, and I did for awhile, but as you see I slacked big time. I will post as often as I can get around to and will not delete or dis this blog completely, ever. Thats a promise. So Superbaby will turn a year old next week and um, where did the time go? He is soooo amazing man, no words can describe how unbelievable he is. He started walking yesterday, it was so cool and I got those first on steps on video believe it or not.  He is so beautiful, I mean really…

  • It's coming

    Wishing 4 One
    13 Aug 2011 | 8:35 pm
    I've had a post in my drafts folder for like 2 weeks now LOL. Its still there and I am working on it. All good here just super busy with superbaby, less than 2 weeks he'll be 10 months. So hey for now and post coming soon. xoxo

  • Wordless Wednesday: Smile

    Wishing 4 One
    27 Jul 2011 | 5:26 pm
    Superbaby a few days past his 9 month birthday... at doctors office here in Cairo.

  • 39 weeks and diapers suck

    Wishing 4 One
    17 Jul 2011 | 4:37 pm
    Superbaby is 39 weeks old and a couple days today. Hard to believe that this little miracle of ours is going to be 9 months old next week! About two weeks ago he started HATING having his diaper and clothes changed. I mean like a tantrum kind of hate. Its not every time, but at least twice a day I have to fight him to do it. WTF? Is it his "personality" coming out? Is it that he getting more independant, or wants to be? Did this happen to you? What did you do? Four teeth coming in on the top, could be teething moodiness, although he seems to be doing ok with his teeth. I don't know. We…
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    ScienceDaily: Fertility News

  • Dietary DHA linked to male fertility

    9 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pm
    A certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail, according to new research. The study shows that docosahexaenoic acid is essential in fusing the building blocks of the acrosome together. The acrosome is critical in fertilization because it houses, organizes, and concentrates a variety of enzymes that sperm use to penetrate an egg.

  • Environmental exposure to organochlorines may impact male reproduction

    9 Jan 2012 | 1:59 pm
    Environmental exposure to organochlorine chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and p,p'-DDE (the main metabolite of the insecticide DDT) can affect male reproduction, according to new research.

  • New practice model may reduce miscarriage after assisted reproduction

    5 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am
    Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services today announced the publication of an article in the December issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Online (www.rbmonline.com) about miscarriage rates following IVF treatment with frozen thawed embryos which may revolutionize clinical and laboratory practice.

  • Potential boost for IVF success

    3 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pm
    A new technique has already been successfully used in mice to identify embryos likely to result in a successful pregnancy. A new study suggests the same technique could be used in humans, potentially boosting IVF success rates and helping to reduce the number of multiple births.

  • Women advised to avoid ZEN bust-enhancing supplements because of possible cancer risk

    8 Dec 2011 | 8:22 am
    Women who use bust-enhancing dietary supplements containing the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEN), a naturally occurring toxin that widely contaminates agricultural products, could be increasing their risk of breast cancer. No clinical trials have been published on the use of potent oestrogens like ZEN in bust-enhancing products and their use should be discouraged because of the lack of evidence of their long-term safety, says a breast cancer expert.
 
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  • 9 Jan 2012 | 10:39 am

    9 Jan 2012 | 10:39 am
    Prognosis following in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) in patients with elevated day 2 or 3 serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is better in younger vs older patients: ArticleHere is a summary of a paper by Check et. al. puvblished in Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol 2002; 29:42-4.Please note that the article is old (2000) and therefore pregnancy rates are expected to be higher in 2012. Overall the result is meaningful though. also note that the pregnancy rates in the study are per transfer and therefore do not include cancelled transfers. Also live birth  rates are expected to…

  • 29 Dec 2011 | 2:10 pm

    29 Dec 2011 | 2:10 pm
    Ivf Prognosis based on FSH and AMH levels IVF Prognosis FSH normal FSH abnormal (high) AMH normal Good Reduced AMH abnormal (low) Very Reduced Poor This table summarizes oocyte production based on (day 3) FSH and AMH (Anti Mullerian Hormone ) values. It appears , based on the study (referenced below) that AMH is the better predictor.  Please note that this table is relevant up to the age of 42yo. After 42 the disparity between FSH and AMH does not seem to matter and patients with "good" FSH levels do better , regardless of AMH values.Reference: Gleicher N, Weghofer A, Barad DH.

  • 22 Jun 2011 | 2:05 pm

    22 Jun 2011 | 2:05 pm
    What is the best protocol for poor responders in IVF? Long protocol, estrogen priming , microdose lupron , short protocol with antagonist, low dose , mini ivf  or clomid  plus gonadotropins?The answer is none of the above , or more appropriately ,  any of the above! I have attended a myriad or conferences , conventions and debates on this topic and the conclusion has always been the same!Often patients come to see me and tell me that they  have read online that a certain protocol is much better . this statement is unsubstantiated by facts.  In fact when one looks at…

  • 4 May 2011 | 8:33 am

    4 May 2011 | 8:33 am
    What is a "good" FSH level? Age Specific FSH levels  Serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level is  measured on day three ( or 2 or 4) of the menstrual cycle. (First day of period flow is counted as day one. Spotting is not considered start of period.) If a lower value occurs from later testing, the highest value is considered the most predictive. FSH assays can differ somewhat so reference ranges as to what is normal, premenopausal or menopausal should be based on ranges provided by the laboratory doing the testing. Estradiol (E2) should also be measured as women who ovulate…

  • 4 May 2011 | 7:42 am

    4 May 2011 | 7:42 am
    Lower IVF Pregnancy Rates Widely Reported in Patients of African Origin May Be Consequence of Genetic Predisposition towards Autoimmunity It has long been known that ivf success rates differ amongst different races/ethnic groups. This new study suggests that predisposition to autoimmune disease may be the cause for these differences. Despite general improvement in outcomes of fertility treatments, disparities between races/ethnicities have actually increased. Prevalence of infertility also differs in that African women experience infertility more frequently than Caucasians and…
 
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  • welfare queen

    Dresden
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
    Politics. You can’t miss it right now. Every night a new city hosts a new debate or another attack ad blasts on the radio. I don’t write about politics here, not really. But in a sideways way, when I have written about my family’s experience with health care, unemployment, and public assistance I have been [...]

  • Public misconceptions about who actually benefit from state benefits {guest post}

    Dresden
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    There is a vision of what an average welfare recipient looks like. None of it is pretty. Very little of it is accurate. When I tell people who I advocate for – people with autism and with intellectual disabilities, reactions usually come close to “oh that’s so noble..” it’s clear people believe it is a [...]

  • Little Moments

    Dresden
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:38 am
    I’m sure, like most of you, I tend to read the same collection of stories over and over each evening after bath time. We have a nice variety in the toddler library but unless it has wheels it won’t be making the reading rotation for a while. He favors stories about hero tractors, animal loving [...]

  • Does any parent love the car shopping cart?

    Dresden
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am
    Of course there was a time when I thought it was positively adorable to plonk W into one of those bean cars attached to my shopping cart at the grocery store. Ah bliss, as my adorable toddler happily drove and beeped the horn of his child cart while I filled the basket area with items [...]

  • My childhood on assistance and experience with poverty {guest post}

    Dresden
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am
    It’s not like the people I grew up with were wealthy. Our county was predominantly poor and rural. Our teen drop out rate was shockingly high because it “didn’t matter,” and you were Someone if you could afford to shop at the Gap and Old Navy. Color coordinating outfits and a few trapper-keepers. Trapper Keepers? Please. That put you [...]
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  • Lazy Girl’s Guide to Health

    Stefanie Wilder Taylor
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    When I first quit drinking over two and a half years ago (it will be three years on May 22nd) (Hold your applause! Calm yourselves, seriously! This isn’t an AA meeting!), I was under the impression that I was a fairly healthy person living an adequately healthy life, but my plan was to step it up and be an incredibly healthy person. Despite the fact that I am someone who is the indoor type, who loves nothing more than to lie on the couch watching Real Housewives and who can’t think of anything less appealing than a hike, I was going to be the opposite. I was going to instantly be a person…

  • Want to be on the TV?

    Stefanie Wilder Taylor
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:09 pm
    PARENTS!!! – Oprah Winfrey Network – NOW CASTING FAMILIES: The company bringing you Undercover Boss has a new family show! This show is positive, uplifting and will offer solutions. Raising a family is a challenge for every parent – We’re seeking a family who is at the end of their rope with the kids’ behavior: • Does your teen break all your rules? • Is your child a victim of peer pressure or bullying? • Is your child acting out, talking back, failing school? • Smoking, drinking, experimenting with drugs? • Ditching, sneaking out, or hanging out with the wrong crowd? •…

  • Don’t Get Drunk Fridays: Mary’s Story

    Stefanie Wilder Taylor
    13 Jan 2012 | 10:22 am
    Please enjoy Mary’s story and if you relate and want to talk about it you can go to our online support group The Booze Free Brigade. All people with a desire to quit drinking or at least examine their drinking are welcome. For those who know me well, most would be shocked that I quit drinking. Funny thing is that I am the one who is shocked the most. Always the party girl throughout college, I really enjoyed the idea of getting ready to go party, the idea of drinking with my friends, meeting guys, but not always remembering everything I did or say the next day. Oh God. I never gave…

  • Don’t Get Drunk Friday: Savannah’s Story

    Stefanie Wilder Taylor
    6 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    I’m trying to post these suckers every week but I don’t get as many as I’d like. If you have a story you’d like to share please email me and let me know. I will be happy to help give you direction if you want. Also, as always, if anything you read here rings true for you, just know that you are in good company. There is hope and there is help. Feel free to join us at the Booze Free Brigade if you want to make a change. “My love affair with alcohol began at age 13. I came from a loving and stable home, but I quickly fell in with the drinking crowd once I…

  • It Was a Pinkalicious Christmas

    Stefanie Wilder Taylor
    5 Jan 2012 | 6:11 pm
    First off, I want to say before I even begin this post that I’m not a whore. I realize that information should go without saying so I’m not trying to come off all defensive like Nixon and his “I am not a thief” speech. I guess I just wanted to clarify that when I like something it’s not just because I like everything. To illustrate: I can’t stand Good Earth tea. Ewww. Most people love Good Earth tea but I’m not most people. Sorry Good Earth but your tea smells like feet. Another thing I don’t like is books about science fiction. Why can’t…
 
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    Chasing A Child

  • Bad Mommy

    Rebeccah
    19 Jan 2012 | 2:23 pm
    I swear I'm working on the birth story and several related posts ... in my head ... between non-stop baby feedings at 3a.m. I'll post them as soon as I have the ability to use both hands and my brain at the same time. In the meantime, I've managed to put myself in the running for this year's World's Worst Mommy Award, so I thought I'd share that with you while I have a moment. Saturday morning. Squeaker (who shall henceforth be known as Brother, since he is very proud of his new status and no longer makes any sounds that could reasonably be interpreted as a squeak) was…

  • At last!

    Rebeccah
    3 Jan 2012 | 12:47 pm
    She's here, and perfect in every way. Birth was vaginal, drug-free, and relatively quick once things finallly got rolling. Details later. For now, I'll just say that leaving that L&D room last night and arriving in the post-partum unit as a healthy mama with a healthy baby was one of the Best Moments Ever.  

  • Guest post from The Mister

    Rebeccah
    1 Jan 2012 | 7:50 pm
    Hi. The Mister here, writing from Room 10 of the labor & delivery ward, where R and I have been camped out for the past 42 hours. The plan, as readers would have noted from recent posts, was to be admitted to L&D at midnight on Friday, do some drugs, bounce on a birthing ball for a while, and deliver our baby girl before the close of the year. Quick! Easy! Fun! Didn't happen. Upon admittance, we did an ultrasound and learned that the baby had once again gotten herself wedged in transverse position, with her head somewhere around R's lower right ribs and her hands and feet…

  • Hold that thought ...

    Rebeccah
    30 Dec 2011 | 4:28 pm
    We were ready to leave for the hospital last night, car loaded, last-minute instructions shared with my mom (she's watching Squeaker), mentally prepared for the long hours ahead, when the phone rang. 11pm- WTH? It was one of the L&D nurses I know from the day we didn't get the external version, calling to say that so many women were birthing their babies that they'd run out of nurses. I'm being rescheduled, and is that okay? What response could I possibly give besides "Sure" ... The Mister was furious and of course I was disappointed, but my main thought was "well, at least I can get some…

  • 38w4d

    Rebeccah
    27 Dec 2011 | 6:49 pm
    Just saw Doc and had my last NST. Baby is ... head down! Yippee! I was pretty sure she was getting in position Christmas Eve, as she kept me up half the night with the somersaulting and shoving. Christmas Day definitely felt different, and yesterday was ridiculous ... it felt like her head was spiraling in my lower pelvis like a power drill. Lots and lots of contractions -- uncomfortable, but not painful. Doc says I'm about 1.5 cm dilated and 25% effaced, so labor isn't imminent, but at least we're making progress. And baby's head is far enough down in my pelvis that Doc…
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  • Friday night leftovers

    Cece
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    This week has been crazy stressful. I scooped up my dear friend and have brought her home and have been taking care of her. She is slowly regaining use of her hands, but needs a lot of help. Seeing someone I love like this makes me sad. But so glad I'm here to help.Tuesday night, Cam woke up with a nosebleed. Poor guy! We turned on the humidifiers in the kid's rooms, so hopefully that helps.Wednesday, daycare called in a bit of a panic that Cam had slammed his finger in a door and 'We aren't sure if it's broken or not'. I jump into the car in a panic, and even called to doc to see what I…

  • Valentine's Day

    Cece
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    When I was younger and still single, I used to get some cute Valentine's day cards and put them in the mail to all my female friends. Some were in relationships, some were single - but I figured it is always nice to get mail on a day when the hype is all about being loved and remembered. So I would send little packages to the special people in my life and hope it made them smile.As time went on, I've fallen out of doing that. No reason why, either. And this year, one of my Facebook friends posted the coolest thing: (Source here)Totally simple to make and really cool! My plan is to make a…

  • What's important to me

    Cece
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    A close friend had a scary incident this weekend, and called me last night. She needed me to drive her to a doctors appointment because she can't drive herself. This isn't my story to tell, but let me just say she is a fiercely independent women, so it takes a lot for her to ask for help.She was going to call first thing this morning to make the appointment, so I wasn't sure what time or for how long I would be sitting in the doctor's waiting room. Now that I've talked to her more, she sounds OK and we have a plan in place (she is coming home with me tonight so I know she is safe and cared…

  • Carpe Diem

    Cece
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:16 am
    There is an article on Huffington Post that is making the rounds with my facebook friends - Don't Carpe Diem. And I get it. There is a frustration while you are in the trenches of child-rearing to want to punch people in the face when they are constantly reminding us that 'They grow up SO fast! Treasure it now". I get it, I do. I'm finding joy in each age and stage (and the horrors too, trust me) that my kids go through.But one thing that I do push myself to do is to not rush it.Mornings are a perfect example. I let the kids wake up on their own in the morning. I have this luxury because they…

  • All about me.

    Cece
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    I have a pretty good opinion of myself. I think I'm a nice person, have nice friends, hold down a good job. I try my best to keep the house running smoothly, Aaron and I communicate well and are a great couple, and my kids seem happy and well adjusted. To do all this, I spend a lot of time working hard, fostering relationships and tending to my family's needs.One thing that has gone 100% to the wayside is my health. I used to be fairly active - I'm sure that if you've read this long enough, you know that I did an Ironman triathlon in 2004. And it does seem like I get into a funk every 6…
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  • Bah. Sick.

    Jen
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:06 pm
    Olivia was sick. 106 degree fever sick. Bad ear infection. On the mend. Ainsley is...sick? I mean, she is technically always sick considering that her lungs suck ass (instead of air) and she needs a machine to breathe for her. But she has been doing some scary, purple-turning stuff. It might be a virus or infection but It might be her pulmonary hypertension getting worse and that is just

  • January Resolution Recipe #1: Crispy Cheddar Chicken

    Jen
    19 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm
    Recipe #1 for the year was a success, so if I fail at all of my other resolutions (probable) then I can still be all smug. Yeah, well I made that recipe on January 17 and it was good to suck on that 2012! Here is the recipe, which I got from this blog.  I took a picture of mine but it looks gross so click over and take a look at her picture. Crispy Cheddar Chicken Time: 15 minute prep + 35

  • Why it is better to be Not Nice

    Jen
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    This morning I got stuck on an elevator with a lady who I shall forever call Douche Canoe. It was my own fault, really. I was in the elevator and saw her coming and held the door until she got there. Now let me tell you why I am usually not nice like that. Douche Canoe: when's that baby due? Jennepper: oh, June... Douche Canoe: you got twins in there? (ha. Haha. Muahahaha!) Jennepper: *

  • If you guessed boy...

    Jen
    11 Jan 2012 | 10:34 am
    YOU WERE WRONG!!! It's a teeny tiny vageenie, situated on a perfectly healthy little lady. Hello little girl! You have no idea what you're getting into...

  • TTP or TTV?

    Jen
    10 Jan 2012 | 11:03 am
    Tomorrow is the day that I will obtain the first photo of my fourth child's genitals. Hopefully it will be the only photo of said genitals to ever exist. One can only hope that I am not Gestating the next Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan/Grady Sizemore/R Kelly. Tomorrow I will know if, in my ute, there is a teeny tiny peenie or a teeny tiny vageenie. It is all very exciting except when it is all
 
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  • My Homeschool Philosophy: Part 1

    Paige
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:21 pm
    Welcome to the first edition of the Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival, hosted by Authentic Parenting and Mudpiemama! In the month of January, we start afresh, a new year, new ideas. Hence, our participants have looked into the topic of “Birth and New Beginnings”. Take a look at the end of this post to find a list of links to the entries of the other participants. This year my daughter turns three.  This milestone and a new year I have decided to be more intentional about homeschooling.  Not to mean I’m really homeschooling at all and research shows that early academics are bad for…

  • Mamatography: Week #4

    Paige
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:14 pm
    I’m participating this year in the Mamatography Project hosted by Diary of a First Child.  I always thought picture-a-day things were cool but not for me.  I can’t remember to do anything once a day!  Then I thought about just doing it with my iPhone – it takes decent pictures and it is ALWAYS with me!  I actually post my pictures on Instagram so you can always see there (and join me!) or on Facebook or Twitter. Since last week I was protesting SOPA this week there are two weeks worth of pictures! Babies are so much cuter in a hat!     Sleeping angel    …

  • 10 (More) Craft Supplies Every Kid Needs

    Paige
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    I was just working on this post about “must-have” craft supplies when Job Description Mommy published her 10 Toddler Art Supply Must Haves! Great minds and all, right? Luckily we only had some overlap (finger paints and pipe cleaners are a must!) so I decided to change mine to make it a supplement to hers.  So you really don’t want to miss the first 10 must haves at her blog. Crafting and Art is so important in allowing kids to use their imagination.  For mom, it breaks up the monotony of being trapped in doors during the winter.  Here are some must-haves for your craft…

  • Sunday Surf: January 22, 2012

    Paige
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:43 pm
    Welcome to Sunday Surf!  My favorite reads from around the blogosphere this past week.  You can always see what I’m reading on my homepage (middle column below Popular Posts) or you can follow my Google Reader Page! Authentic Parenting and Hobo Mama are now hosting Sunday Surf. Share your best reading of the week, and link up your post at either blog! For more great reading, visit Hobo Mama or Authentic Parenting for the latest Sunday Surf and linky. Happy Surfing! For MLK day Lauren at Hobomama addresses Talking about race with (white) kids.   It is an excellent post and…

  • Sh*t Fat Phobic People Say

    Paige
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:24 pm
    I don’t know if you’ve seen this meme lighting up YouTube.  I’m not sure where it started but it consists of videos called “Shit x say to y” where x and y are opposite groups.  E.g. Things White Chicks Say To Black Chicks.  There were a few called Things Fat Girls say that were full of hungry, snack munching, lonely fat chicks.  I thought it needed an answer! Here is my submission!  Sh*t Fat Phobic People Say.  I was originally going to have a conversation between a fat girl and a skinny girl but the program I used had not a single fat body to choose from!
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  • Because I just got taller

    Lavender Luz
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Pin itI had an biennial physical this week. Everything was great and one vital statistic was better than great: I am a half-inch taller than I used to be. I attribute it to yoga. A steady yoga practice can put space into one’s spine to counter the compression that comes over time. I began practicing [...]

  • Perfect Moment Monday: Retreat

    Lavender Luz
    22 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Pin itAs part of a year-long course I’m immersed in, I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with a group of authentic and supportive women (12 of us plus a teacher) at a dude ranch called Peaceful Valley. We drove up between snowfalls and, because of the time of year, ended up being the [...]

  • Open Adoption Examiner Book Tour: Found, a memoir

    Lavender Luz
    13 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am
    Pin itToday kicks off the latest Open Adoption Examiner Book Tour. With this third outing of the OAExaminer Book Club we are discussing Found: a Memoir, by Jennifer Lauck. Adoption plays a major role in Jennifer Lauck’s memoir, but the book has appeal beyond those who are connected to adoption. You do not have to [...]

  • Wordless Wednesday: Are you smarter than a third grader?

    Lavender Luz
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:47 am
    Pin itI dare you to try… Granted, it was for extra credit. Took me 15 minutes and 9th grade algebra to get the answers. I mean, help Reed find the answers. Seriously — Grade 3!? I’ve got a $5 Starbucks card to the first person with correct answers. Show your work!

  • VIPs: Very Important Posts #3

    Lavender Luz
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Pin itBelow is a collection of posts from the past month that have made me think long after I read them.  You may already be acquainted with these writers; whether you are or not, I encourage you to click over to see if these posts are meaningful to you, too. It Is What It Is [...]
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  • Pollution in China

    RumorQueen
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:36 am
    Here is yet another story about pollution in China. One of the many reasons our factories moved overseas is because it is so expensive for companies to be responsible from a pollution standpoint, and that’s pretty much a requirement in the US, while not so much in countries like China, India, Mexico, and Pakistan. I’m [...]

  • I-800a Discussion

    RumorQueen
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:36 am
    When we did it, it was the I600a, and it was the worst part of the process for us — both times. I understand the procedures have changed a great deal, so I’d like to open up the comments today for people to talk about what it took (or is taking) for them to get [...]

  • Projections

    RumorQueen
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:33 am
    The first chart shows the size (in poll numbers) of the previous batches and this batch. Please remember each poll has to stand by itself, you can’t compare numbers from different polls. We can still get an idea of how the sizes of the batches have gone, but you can’t do a direct comparison. I [...]

  • Babies post, Lid Poll, Adoption Tax Credit

    RumorQueen
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:05 am
    The Babies!!! post is still being added to, if you haven’t checked it out since last week, you may want to check in again. Congrats to everyone receiving their referral. The new LID Poll is up. If you are still waiting for your NSN referral, please click here to let us know when you were [...]

  • When

    RumorQueen
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    Has everyone had fun CNY celebrations? We saw phone calls at the 31 day mark this month. The last 12 referral batches arrived at 22, 36, 28, 31, 31, 27, 33, 31, 25, 35, 21 and 31 day intervals. The past 12 referral cycles they have arrived at 31 days four times. The shortest time [...]
 
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  • Going forth in spite of fear

    Journeywoman
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:28 pm
    Okay I really did promise that I would do better with the posting.  I'm working on it, honest.  One other thing I'm working on is renewing our homestudy.  This time we have to take adoption classes--this can be done online.  Some of them have been okay.  Today's was quite informative.   And then there were the others.  Two of them, specifcally.  The one about health issues and the one about adoption loss made me and D respectively want to crawl under our beds. It was scary, reading about all the possible ways that our kid would be…

  • 2011--don't let the door hit you on the way out.

    Journeywoman
    31 Dec 2011 | 12:58 pm
    I often give my years themes.  2009 was the year of concerts--and the year of my house. 2010 was the in-between year.  2011 was the year of mortality.  We lost my mom's favorite cousin, M.  M's husband had died four months prior.  We lost a dear friend of the family.  I had to come face to face with mortality--often.  My father spent half of March, nearly all of April and a chunk of may in the hospitals and rehabs. He's better now God be thanked, but it was hell there.  In the space of one week I had to bring D to the ER and then…

  • Jewels of Elul--Transformative Moment

    Journeywoman
    15 Sep 2011 | 10:21 pm
    I haven't been writing the Jewels of Elul here because really--the questions have been kinda one-word answer type things.  Except today.  If you had to name a transformative moment for you in the last year, what would it be? I don't know. There were so many.  My father got sick. Really sick. Sick, we thought we were going to lose him sick. I've never been more care-ful of my father. Speaking to him whenever I get the chance.  I had to get major medical attention for D twice in the space of a week. Once in the emergency room and once a call to 911 with…

  • Jewels of Elul #5 (yeah, I missed one)

    Journeywoman
    5 Sep 2011 | 5:52 am
    We're away for Labor day weekend so I missed one--sorry. Today's is Descricbe your most awesome experience by candlelight.   Okay, well my truly most awesome experience by candlelight is not rated PG or even PG-13.  I'll leave that to your imagination and go with my second most awesome experience. It was the first Shabbat after we knew that the IVF failed. I had made dinner and was just planning to eat--not to light the candles or make kiddish.  D, however, as usual set up the candles, wine and bread for kiddish. I looked at him.  I had no desire to bless…

  • Jewels of Elul #3

    Journeywoman
    2 Sep 2011 | 9:38 pm
    If you had to name a mantra by which you live your life, what would it be? Where or how did you learn it?   I don't really know.  There's "Win a few, lose a lot."  My dad says that one often.  There's "Everything can be fixed." which is an editors mantra.   It really isn't that there is a mantra that helps me to live my life--but that if I need a song to express what I am feeling at any one time, I can find it.  That helps.  Music is my life.   What about you? Any mantras?
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    Maybe If You Just Relax

  • Bah. Sick.

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:06 pm
    Olivia was sick. 106 degree fever sick. Bad ear infection. On the mend. Ainsley is...sick? I mean, she is technically always sick considering that her lungs suck ass (instead of air) and she needs a machine to breathe for her. But she has been doing some scary, purple-turning stuff. It might be a virus or infection but It might be her pulmonary hypertension getting worse and that is just

  • January Resolution Recipe #1: Crispy Cheddar Chicken

    19 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm
    Recipe #1 for the year was a success, so if I fail at all of my other resolutions (probable) then I can still be all smug. Yeah, well I made that recipe on January 17 and it was good to suck on that 2012! Here is the recipe, which I got from this blog.  I took a picture of mine but it looks gross so click over and take a look at her picture. Crispy Cheddar Chicken Time: 15 minute prep + 35

  • Why it is better to be Not Nice

    17 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    This morning I got stuck on an elevator with a lady who I shall forever call Douche Canoe. It was my own fault, really. I was in the elevator and saw her coming and held the door until she got there. Now let me tell you why I am usually not nice like that. Douche Canoe: when's that baby due? Jennepper: oh, June... Douche Canoe: you got twins in there? (ha. Haha. Muahahaha!) Jennepper: *

  • If you guessed boy...

    11 Jan 2012 | 10:34 am
    YOU WERE WRONG!!! It's a teeny tiny vageenie, situated on a perfectly healthy little lady. Hello little girl! You have no idea what you're getting into...

  • TTP or TTV?

    10 Jan 2012 | 11:03 am
    Tomorrow is the day that I will obtain the first photo of my fourth child's genitals. Hopefully it will be the only photo of said genitals to ever exist. One can only hope that I am not Gestating the next Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan/Grady Sizemore/R Kelly. Tomorrow I will know if, in my ute, there is a teeny tiny peenie or a teeny tiny vageenie. It is all very exciting except when it is all
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  • Despite Silence

    chris
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:23 am
    I cannot stop missing Silasdespite everything.  Despite time broken into before and after. Despite new life in our lives.Despite a distance beyond comprehension.Despite the black, despicable wall of death.   I feel his absence in my brothers and parents.   I see them not seeing him where I don't see him either.   To this very moment years from his grave, I cannot believe this is part of us:that my parents have a life where their grandson died.   Awful.  Outlandish.  Ridiculous to the point of unbearable pain. How brutal this world,where this is something…

  • Family Assortment

    catherine w.
    21 Jan 2012 | 4:31 pm
    If I had noticed them, standing there, standing by, I would have felt sorry for them. But I only had eyes for my girl. I should have felt sorry because, being my family, they couldn't run away. They couldn't pull that conjuring trick of disappearing for six months, a year. Then coming back with a forced smile and pretending that none of this had ever happened. That there was no other baby. Vanishing her with a slick sleight of hand. A grandchild, a niece. Here and then gone in a puff of smoke. When I did finally look up, they were still standing there. Three decades of looking to them for…

  • at the kitchen table: all in the family

    glow in the woods
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    My friend, Kara C.L. Jones, aka Mother Henna, says that the death of our children updates our address book. Friends come through our grief, bear witness, leave us or support us, but there is an implicit understanding that friendship is a choice--a kind of conditional contract we have both entered into that can be terminated. When they are there, it is a powerful testament to their love. When friends walk away, we grieve too, but we change their status to ex-friend, former friend, or something less, uh, flattering. Our families, however, are there in a different way. Awkwardly at times.

  • Nine Days

    josh
    11 Jan 2012 | 11:29 am
    The two of them met for a brief moment. One of them was alive, nine days old, seven pounds, four ounces, and still under the lethargic haze of infancy. One of them was dead, four hours old, seven pounds, twelve ounces, and still warm from the womb, from the closeness of working organs and a rapid heartbeat. The dead one was lifted in front of the live one, a surreal sight if there ever was such a thing. She was going to be your best friend, the mother whispered. It was hello and goodbye in the same minute. They were meant for each other, our two girls, Lyla and Margot, born nine days apart to…

  • reflections: five voices from the family

    glow in the woods
    5 Jan 2012 | 5:52 am
    This month on Glow in the Woods, we are examining family relationships--both our family of origin and the one we create on our life's journey. We want to look at how those relationships change after the death of our child(ren)--how they grow, how they suffer, how our parents and siblings grieve, and how they bear witness to our suffering. Today, we asked the family members of our regular contributors to talk about their grief, the death of their grandchildren, nephew, and niece, and the experience of bearing witness to our grief. We are honored to have them sharing their voices here.  …
 
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    Double Blessings

  • I've Jinxed Myself!

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:25 pm
    Me (THIS afternoon to the sitter):  Addison has been sleeping SO well since about last Thursday!  We did the old "CIO" thing and it took her about three nights to get straightened out.  And by Friday night last week, she was snoozing like a pro!The Sitter:  Oh, that's great!  Tonight...  Lauren was a mess, laying on everything and was obviously sleepy.  She probably slept well during the day and was just her normal sleep-craving self and needed even more beauty rest.So, we put them down and Lauren cries like a mad woman.  Mostly probably because…

  • Bedtime Tantrums: A Shameless Call for Help!

    17 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    So, my girls have been pretty good sleepers for quite a while.  I should count my blessings, and deal...   however I am old and tired so I'm going to complain and beg for help.Addison's new thing as of the past FEW weeks has been to start screaming about 15 to 20 minutes after we put her down at night.  Seriously, the little stink can scream so loud that the little muscles in my forehead twitch with pain and my eardrums want to run away from my body.And so, dummies that we are.... we bring her into the living room to hang out on the couch with us.  Which, of course…

  • Now, For A Very Serious Question...

    11 Jan 2012 | 2:28 pm
    Not really.OK, maybe.So, Lauren's hair is in her eyes and I do NOT want to cut it.  So I got these cute little metal clips, the kind that bend to close.  But it occurred to me that they are small enough to be swallowed.  Yet, I notice lots of little girls have clips or bows or rubber bands that could be swallowed.  So what do you do?  Do you just let them do hair stuff when they are with you and you go out?***************************Also, to follow up on my last post about cleaning and eating.  I don't think I'm a schedule person, at least not at…

  • The Cleaning Bits and the Feeding Bits

    2 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    Cleaning BitsI have been a laaaaaaaaaaazy bum this holiday.  Well, that's not entirely true, since caring for toddlers makes being absolutely lazy, well, impossible.  But still, that first day I had off I was all, OHMYGOSH I'm going to get so much stuff done!  It's going to be great!  And like, huge projects too!  And what did I do?  I played with the girls.  I watched movies.*  I cooked, like... for pleasure!  And I read a good book.  But cleaning?  Didn't happen.I saw on Pinterest this person had a whole FLOW CHART for…

  • My Parents are Dummies

    31 Dec 2011 | 2:38 pm
    Addison has been saying the sound "puh" for days!  Literally, she will up and say it and be very animated and exuberant about it. Over and over again, "puh, puh, puh".  And we're all scratching our heads.  We repeatedly tried to guess, "passie?  puzzle? paper?"  And nothing.  Even her grandparents didn't have a clue.Usually both girls get the beginning sound of words, and if they don't say the entire word, they say that beginning sound.  So, I was pretty sure it began with a "p".  I'm usually pretty good at this.  But we…
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    Production, Not Reproduction

  • Roundtable Suggestions

    Heather
    19 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    I have a new open adoption roundtable set up for next week. This next prompt was suggested by a first mom blogger (she's since shuttered her blog, else I'd link to her) and I'd love to have more community-suggested prompts. I'm sure you have some better ideas than mine! What topics would you like to write about? Read about? You can peek at the list of prior topics for a look at what we've done in the past.

  • Adoption Book Tour: "Found" by Jennifer Lauck

    Heather
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:59 am
    Today I am participating in an adoption book tour of Found by Jennifer Lauck, organized by Lori at The Open Adoption Examiner. Found is a companion to Ms Lauck's earlier memoirs (the acclaimed Blackbird, Still Waters, and Show Me the Way), re-telling some of the same events then continuing on through her reunion with her first mother and, more broadly, her search for wholeness, peace, and identity. It's a raw and powerful story about her memory of loss (loss piled on loss, in this case: losing her family of origin due to closed adoption, losing her adoptive family to…

  • Best of Open Adoption Blogs 2011

    Heather
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:01 am
    The Best of Open Adoption Blogs list celebrates the best of online writing about openness in adoption from 2011, as selected by the blogging community. Bloggers could contribute posts they wrote as well as posts written by others. Submissions will be added to the list through January 31, so if your favorite isn't listed, be sure to add it. The submissions are listed in the order in which they were received--no "best of the best" or rankings here. Section I: Recognizing Our Own Writing A modest proposal. I mean, question. by Lia of Lia - Not Juno Christmas and Adoption by of Mandy W. of…

  • Opportunities

    Heather
    8 Jan 2012 | 5:08 pm
    Best of Open Adoption Blogs The Best of Open Adoption Blogs 2011 arrives on Tuesday!  Hooray! There are thirty-some posts on the list so far and not a single one has been nominated twice. I think that diversity is such a testament to the strength of our loose online community and the resource we are to each other. The initial deadline was yesterday, but I'll try to squeeze in as many as I can that come in before Tuesday. And, don't forget, I'll still add submissions through the end of January even after the list is posted. So keep them coming! What did you read about open adoption in…

  • Six

    Heather
    6 Jan 2012 | 1:51 am
    Dear Eddie, You settled into being six years old a few months ago now. It is, thus far, a slightly taller version of five: the same intent love for Legos; the same need to run and jump and explore; the same fierce desire to snuggle together for books at bedtime. Your blankie is still your most treasured possession. There is also, in the last two months, a new found fascination with all things football. It is your father's fault; he got in there before I could snag you with an appreciation for something more civilized. We recently interviewed a string of potential babysitters and,…
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  • Because I just got taller

    Lavender Luz
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Pin itI had an biennial physical this week. Everything was great and one vital statistic was better than great: I am a half-inch taller than I used to be. I attribute it to yoga. A steady yoga practice can put space into one’s spine to counter the compression that comes over time. I began practicing [...]

  • Perfect Moment Monday: Retreat

    Lavender Luz
    22 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Pin itAs part of a year-long course I’m immersed in, I had the pleasure of spending a weekend with a group of authentic and supportive women (12 of us plus a teacher) at a dude ranch called Peaceful Valley. We drove up between snowfalls and, because of the time of year, ended up being the [...]

  • Open Adoption Examiner Book Tour: Found, a memoir

    Lavender Luz
    13 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am
    Pin itToday kicks off the latest Open Adoption Examiner Book Tour. With this third outing of the OAExaminer Book Club we are discussing Found: a Memoir, by Jennifer Lauck. Adoption plays a major role in Jennifer Lauck’s memoir, but the book has appeal beyond those who are connected to adoption. You do not have to [...]

  • Wordless Wednesday: Are you smarter than a third grader?

    Lavender Luz
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:47 am
    Pin itI dare you to try… Granted, it was for extra credit. Took me 15 minutes and 9th grade algebra to get the answers. I mean, help Reed find the answers. Seriously — Grade 3!? I’ve got a $5 Starbucks card to the first person with correct answers. Show your work!

  • VIPs: Very Important Posts #3

    Lavender Luz
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Pin itBelow is a collection of posts from the past month that have made me think long after I read them.  You may already be acquainted with these writers; whether you are or not, I encourage you to click over to see if these posts are meaningful to you, too. It Is What It Is [...]
 
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    Welcome To The Dollhouse

  • I Am A…

    teendoc
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm
    Cross-posted from Eclectic Journey Photography Clickin Moms, my home away from home, has a great project going on now to benefit RAINN, an anti-sexual assault organization. They call it the I Am A Photographer project, but it is really about sharing who you are apart from being a photog or a mom. You are to shoot a photo of yourself (or have someone else shoot it) holding a sign that completes the sentence, “I am a…” It can be serious or light-hearted. And for each submission, CM will donate $1 to RAINN. I had so many possibilities swirling around my head for weeks, but it…

  • Anatomy of a Family Photo

    teendoc
    25 Dec 2011 | 10:38 pm
    Crossposted from Eclectic Journey Photography Hi Friends, So here’s the question for the day: how many photos does it take to get the ideal Clark-Schecter holiday card picture? Now before you answer remember that this involves my being in front of the camera and not behind it. That added a degree of difficulty of about 200%. What do you think? 5 shots 50 shots 100 shots 200 shots 417 shots over 3 separate sessions If you chose any option other than the last choice, well, you must be one of those optimists! Our first foray was on December 4th. I was going for a sun-going-down, golden…

  • Combating Genderism over Ice Cream

    teendoc
    12 Nov 2011 | 10:49 pm
    This afternoon, while AdoringHusband was indulging his man cold, I decided to take Zizi to the movies. She’s not yet at the point where she will watch a non-animated feature in the theater, so I decided on Puss in Boots, in IMAX 3D. We had a really good time together after the mother with the whining/crying/loud child finally moved away from us after repeatedly being shushed by many of the patrons. Even Zara turned around and offered some shushes of her own. The mother’s response? The typical, he’s just a child. Yeah, like it was our fault that we didn’t accept and…

  • What Do Normals Do?

    teendoc
    27 Oct 2011 | 9:55 pm
    The really cool and fun thing about blogging about yourself is that no matter how out there or different you think your experiences may be, you can usually find another traveler who has also journeyed along your particular offshoot path. My doppelganger is my fellow blogger-doc-mom Kayla. She was quick to let me know that she too shared my oddball, raised indoors, decidedly not normal upbringing. And like me, she seeks to simulate normal as much as possible for her daughters. So my last post resonated with her a good deal. This led to a discussion of how we wish that there was some Manual for…

  • Being Normal

    teendoc
    12 Oct 2011 | 11:28 pm
    Last Sunday was such a beautiful day. Clear skies, great temperatures. Just gorgeous. Now had I followed my usual habits that day, I would have slept as late as the kid would have allowed, rolled around in my jammies for too long, and then start trying to balance the work that I need to do with the kid’s need to “do something fun” as she likes to put it. The “doing something fun” part is always a struggle for me. Between being chronically exhausted with batshit moods, fun isn’t always in my arsenal. Luckily AdoringHusband is much better finding fun for her,…
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  • Ten

    omegamom
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:55 pm
    Somehow or other, this little girl: Has turned into this OMG-how-did-this-happen tween (oh-so-ironic picture taken at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History): It happens while you’re not looking. I have been incredibly busy today, zipping to and fro, getting my boobs squished, telling the car mechanic I have to bring the car in on Wednesday, not today, ferrying a boatload of fudgsicles to school, wrapping gifts, dragging the girl off to gymnastics, buying cupcakes for the kids at gymnastics, running home, writing this blog post, then it’s off to pick up the girl and all of us…

  • Happy New Year!

    omegamom
    31 Dec 2011 | 9:00 pm
    So here it is, almost 2012. Tomorrow will be the Omegas’ 14th anniversary. We are safely ensconced in our new house, which we closed on yesterday, the last closing of 2011 for our title company. We have had some thirty+ inches of snow at the house over December, which is only now totally melted off our back deck. In excellent “greet the New Year” fashion, I am sick and regretting not hauling my butt off to the local doc-in-the-box today. OmegaDad has, in the past month, ripped 90% of the cornea off his right eye by gouging it with his thumb while in the throes of a nightmare…

  • Ummm…T+5 and in a new life stage

    omegamom
    11 Nov 2011 | 11:46 pm
    Okay, so I suck at updating. And, for the nth year in a row, I have hopelessly flubbed NaBloPoMo. Sigh. Maybe next year, eh? So. We are now ensconced at a lovely little B&B in Ranchos de Big City (not to be confused with River Rancho, a suburb of Big City filled with McMansions crammed together cheek by jowl). As a result of this stay, we have become enamored of Ranchos de Big City, an area on the banks of Big River that is filled with huge old cottonwood trees, old ranchos of sprawling adobe structures sitting next to outrageously large new construction. The streets are tiny. The…

  • T-2 Various goodbyes

    omegamom
    5 Nov 2011 | 12:53 am
    I have pics on my iPhone that I would like to insert, but I don’t know how using WordPress’s built-in post writing ability.  Bah. So I’ll just say that I drove in to Big City to drop my car off to be shipped to New Mexico, OmegaDotter had her last day at school and gymnastics, our inflatable mattress deflated overnight, OmegaDad took turtles in to get a health certificate, and now we’re all exhausted.

  • T-3 An empty house

    omegamom
    4 Nov 2011 | 2:58 am
    I am writing this using my brand-new iPhone, curled up on an inflatable mattress.  The house is empty, except for the heap of stuff we are either shipping to NM via UPS or schlepping onto the plane with us.  (That includes one dawg, three cats, and three turtles.) OmegaDad is setting up turtle carriers.  OmegaDotter is snoring on another inflatable mattress beside me. The cats were quite traumatized today.  Piggy, our 17-year-old half-Siamese, half-calico dainty scaredy cat, spent most of the past four days carefully hidden in the box spring of our bed.  When the movers finally came to…
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  • 50 Book Challenge: 2012

    13 Jan 2012 | 11:12 am
    1. 11/22/63 -- Stephen King (Kindle)2. Second Nature --Jacquelyn Mitchard

  • A new year!

    13 Jan 2012 | 11:01 am
    Happy New Year!So much to say, so little time, so little energy. I feel like all I do is: get up, go to work, work my buns off, get girls, get home, eat, sleep, repeat cycle. I have zero energy to blog, yet I have about 10 posts already started and I have so many thoughts swirling around in my head I want to get out, but when I actually get a few minutes to do so, I sit down, and promptly blank out. Exhaustion has done that to me. Plus, I'm now doing assessment again for my job part time, and it's A LOT of work. A LOT. Let's just say that we've got about 20 kids in process, and that is just…

  • 50 Book Challenge: 2011

    2 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    1. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod --Gary Paulsen2. Man in the Woods --Scott Spencer3. Lost in the Woods - Danger and Survival in the North Woods -- Cary J. Griffith4. An Object of Beauty--Steve Martin5. Raising Your Spirited Child-- Mary Sheedy Kurcinka6. Little Bee --Chris Cleave7. The Adultery Club-- Tess Stimson8. The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged -- Tosca Reno9. Deeper Than the Dead--Tami Hoag10. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls --Rachel Simmons11. Bad Blood --John Sandford12. Winter's Bone -(the movie was based on this) ---Daniel Woodrell13. Full…

  • Wordless Wednesday: "Treble is my best friend"

    2 Nov 2011 | 6:01 am
    So says Kyla, many times a week. A girl and her dog. B/F/F?

  • Home again, home again.....

    22 Oct 2011 | 7:57 pm
    Home again, from the land where dreams and fairytales come true..........Disney Land! Yep, the "California Disney!"Currently, I am typing up each day as I remember it and plan on sharing that plus some of the amazing pictures we took of the girls and Princesses and characters! Keifer was out of her head with excitement, which made for some "interesting" times but overall, for a 4 1/2 year old and 2 1/2 year old, I couldn't be more proud of how well they did! I was so sad to leave- yes, I'm a sap. But already we are hoping and wishing to visit one of Mickey's homes again some day........
 
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    Barren Mare

  • Relearning curves

    Barren Mare
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
    Apologies for the cliffhanging gaps in my postings but I am busy relearning so many things I had forgotten about newborn babies. For example, I had forgetten how every single minute suddenly becomes consumed with bare essentials- feeding, changing, winding,...

  • Against the wind

    Barren Mare
    13 Jan 2012 | 3:38 am
    Having had a blissful several days after bringing Colt home, we now seem to be firmly entrenched in that horrible zone of mixed up days and nights, combined with bad trapped wind after every evening/night feed. I wouldn't call it...

  • Arrival

    Barren Mare
    1 Jan 2012 | 8:47 am
    Hello! Happy New Year! So, I finally went and had a baby on Friday, exactly a week overdue. Caveat was born after a marathon 36 hour labour by a natural delivery that left him a little bit blue around the...

  • Stick a fork in me

    Barren Mare
    22 Dec 2011 | 6:12 pm
    ...I'm done. Caveat is fully baked at full term as of tomorrow. 40 weeks. And so far...showing no signs of leaving his current warm and cosy accommodation. Night time brings a few random crampings, which amount to nothing other than...

  • 38 weeks and...

    Barren Mare
    11 Dec 2011 | 5:18 pm
    Counting. Nothing much is happening, to be honest, on the Caveat front. At my last midwife appointment, he was apparently not completely back to back (good) and the head is 3/5 engaged. I could kind of tell s to the...
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  • In With the New. Please.

    Alexa
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:40 pm
    I haven’t posted because I’ve felt I’m expected—possibly even required—to post about my father, and…I don’t want to. His dying was both expected and a shock. It’s complicated, both the Rube Goldberg-like route he took to death and my feelings about it and him and us. Writing about it, even thinking of writing about it, is unwieldy and exhausting. I don’t want to, not because it would be too painful, or because I have suddenly developed a sense of propriety that would preclude dissecting my every internal burble in virtual public, but because there is…

  • A Title Eludes Me.

    Alexa
    26 Dec 2011 | 9:14 pm
    My dad died last week. The funeral is tomorrow, thus in between his dying and his funeral fell the holidays, which were honestly joyful; the day he died was also the day I saw an apparently healthy and obviously human baby at my nuchal translucency scan. It would be nice if events occurred in emotionally coherent groupings, but as I am all too aware, they seldom do. To be fair, even my emotions seldom occur in emotionally coherent groupings, especially when it comes to my father. I suppose this is fitting, then. More, much, anon.

  • Shit Out of Log.

    Alexa
    7 Dec 2011 | 9:53 pm
    My brother is visiting our mother in Switzerland for some pre-holiday cheer. To me, of course, holiday season in Switzerland means only one thing: everyone’s favorite sack-toting, child-beating sidekick, Schmutzli. I have happily incorporated this particular aspect of Swiss culture into my own seasonal festivities, and so asked my brother to keep an eye out for anything Schmutzli-related. But he had a better idea. You see, Max and my mother are leaving for a quick jaunt to Barcelona tomorrow, and in the course of his research, my brother had discovered a Spanish holiday custom that…

  • Long and Overdue.

    Alexa
    29 Nov 2011 | 9:23 pm
    Do you ever do that thing, where you are just going to rest for a bit, maybe to help your preschooler fall asleep, and then you open your eyes and it is the next day? Yeah. Sorry about that. Anyhow, the appointment yesterday was fine. Weird, but fine. More on that in a few paragraphs. I never got around to telling you about my FIRST ultrasound appointment, and I meant to, because it was An Experience. I was just over six weeks then, and walking into the perinatology clinic gave me a strange, uneasy feeling. I had been back twice since my last pregnancy, once to check on Ames’ autopsy…

  • Here I Am!

    Alexa
    27 Nov 2011 | 8:35 pm
    On Friday I was writing you an update post, the gist of which was “I’m Feeling Somewhat Better,” when what should interrupt me but a sudden urgent need to stumble to the bathroom and kneel before the toilet. The next morning, determined to try again, I found my site entirely inaccessible. I’d exceeded my bandwidth (there is still someone out there, hotlinking something, but damned if I can find it). I am back up and running as of this afternoon, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lightning bolt is about to take out a server, or me, so I’ll post a quick hello…
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  • An Affair To Forget

    Julia L
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pm
    When I want to be alone I take a bath. Generally this works for about five minutes until Caroline's mermaid senses go all tingly and the next thing I know she has materialized from under the bathroom door and executed...

  • Pended

    Julia L
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:46 am
    By the time Patrick and I got home last night all I wanted was a very hot bath and a medium-sized glass of wine - we had a pharmaceutical odyssey; not the good kind - so forgive me for failing...

  • Pending

    Julia L
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    We woke up today to a moderate snowstorm which was pretty for about two seconds until I remembered that I had to drive to Rochester to take Patrick back to the Mayo Clinic this morning. As per usual Patrick and...

  • One Liners

    Julia L
    12 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    From the living room I heard, "Oh just shut up, Hehyo Kitty!" I poked my head around the corner and saw Edward sitting on the floor by himself. Held up to his face was one of Caroline's one inch Hello...
 
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    Serenity Now!

  • WW: Then. And Now.

    Serenity
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    He will always be my baby, no matter how big he gets.

  • Releasing Judgment.

    Serenity
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
    I am, by nature and most definitely nurture, very judgmental. It’s why I made such a good auditor back in the day. Because I had an expectation of what I expected to see in a test, or a conversation with my client. More often than not, the answer met what I expected to hear. When it didn’t, then I worked really hard to figure out WHY it didn’t meet my expectations. Was my expectation wrong? Or was there something else going on? More often than not, I was off because I based my expectation on incomplete information. But I am really, really good at judging and forming…

  • Finally.

    Serenity
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:28 am
    Lucky has never been a very good sleeper. Anytime we go somewhere new, or he’s about to hit a milestone, or he gets sick, or the moon is in the house of Saturn the stars don’t quite align correctly, we have always been doomed to an overnight with wakings. Sometimes multiple wakings, where he’s up for a while and needs us to be with him to fall back asleep. Especially when he’s sick. I don’t know what it IS about him, but Lucky has always seemed to be one of those kids that has had to power through a sickness. No matter how much we try to tell him that resting…

  • My Friday Announcement.

    Serenity
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:42 am
    Oh, it’s nothing serious. But I’ve been thinking about this for a while. O has been in our life long enough now that, whenever I’m posting about him, I just type out his whole name, really without thinking. I’ve done it a couple of times here now – had to go back and edit out his name, usually HOURS after I’ve published a post. And while I’m not too upset with you all knowing his name – after all, we DID announce it when he was born – this space is safer to me if I remain as anonymous as possible. With J? It gets complicated to call my…

  • I Guess He’s Getting the Lesson.

    Serenity
    19 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am
    O didn’t nap at school yesterday, and he went to bed JUST a little later than we would have liked, since his cousin was over for dinner. In our house, that usually means he’s up for the day at 4:30, in our bed, whispering is it wake up time yet? But this morning he slept in. So I went up to his room at 7:45 to wake him up. And he was still in bed, motionless. Sleeping. Except. Bear was across the room on his rocker. So I gather Bear up and go over to his bed, telling him that it’s time to get up. No, Mommy! Bear needs to sit on the chair! He protests. I ask why. He…
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    So Close

  • School Report Back

    Tertia
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:48 am
    Touch wood, things are going swimmingly well so far! The twins have settled in to Grade 1 really well.  They each have a lovely teacher and as I keep saying, I absolutely love our school.  I don't have any experience with other schools (my schooling was so long ago that it is all a distant memory*) so I can't say if our school is any better or any worse than other schools, but I am extremely happy with how things are run.  Everything is so organized and so efficient.  And the support I get from the other professionals on site (the educational psychologist and OT) is fantastic.
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    Uppercase Woman

  • Scar(r)ed

    Cecily Kellogg
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am
    I feel surrounded by fear. One of the most annoying things people say about faith is that faith is a lack of fear. I’ve spent my life feeling afraid; it’s one of the chronic tenets of alcoholism, that we are swept up in the agonizing terror of things, and we drink because it dampens that [...]

  • Whip It Out: How Big Is YOUR Clit?

    Cecily Kellogg
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:29 pm
    I know, I know. But dudes, I couldn’t resist. Cause it turns out? It’s a TON bigger than you thought. I first heard about it being bigger than just the little nub we all know and love thanks to the awesome Dr. Marci Bowers who has been performing a new surgery called either ”clitoralplasty” or “female [...]

  • Finding Peace

    Cecily Kellogg
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:01 pm
    I’m reading a novel right now where the central character hears music when someone tells the truth. When I received this meditation (pictured) in my email today, it sang to me. Reaching for grace has been my primary goal since I got sober and realized that I was just one of the many stars in [...]

  • Crafty

    Cecily Kellogg
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:38 pm
    Years ago I had a sponsor in recovery that told me it was critical for me to get a hobby. She then proceeded heartily to try to get me into scrap booking, which of course was her hobby. She regaled me with tales of going to the craft store, of locking herself in her craft [...]

  • Emerging

    Cecily Kellogg
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:43 am
    I haven’t had that in a long time, that welling up of despair. I struggled through the day, had a better day on Wednesday, and then Thursday was flattened by a stomach issue that may or may not have involved a sandwich I ate from a convenience store. I’m still in some pain today but [...]
 
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    Certainly Not Cool Enough To Blog

  • The unberable lightness of being

    10 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am
    It's not like I'm walking on sunshine and floating two feet off the ground or anything. But this morning it dawned on me that life is sort of good right now. Uncomplicated in a way it hasn't been in, well, in virtually my entire life, really.We're not trying to have a baby anymore. So my body has ceased to be a science experiment/means to an end/poorly constructed baby-making machine. It's just my body again. Arms, legs, graying head and a busted uterus that can just fucking relax now, since it's not going to be called into action ever again.If you listen closely, you can probably hear it…

  • The long goodbye

    9 Jan 2012 | 2:10 pm
    The other day I read an article about the formalized mourning rituals observed by Jews. Being married to someone who is half Jewish, I'm familiar with some of those rituals - like sitting Shiva for 7 days, and the unveiling of the monument one year later.But what I didn't know is that they understand that that grief takes a solid year to truly process. They figured this out, wrote it down, handed it out and now they all just know to treat each other a little more gently when the heart is healing post-loss. Imagine that.It has now been one year and five days since my dad died.Losing Thomas…

  • Friendship's wings

    26 Sep 2011 | 2:56 pm
    My friend died on Saturday.There are a million and one things to say about this, but the foggy swirl of grief and remembrance is making me nervous that I'll forget something important - that I won't eulogize her in the way she deserves.So I will just say this:She went to visit my dad one day while he was in dialysis. They were receiving treatment in the same hospital; one for kidney failure, one for cancer. She had never met him, but she wanted to stop in and say hello to the man I'd talked so much about.  Like everyone to whom I introduced Liz, he was instantly smitten. After their…

  • Do as I say, not as I do. Obviously.

    29 Jul 2011 | 4:06 pm
    Okay, so here's the thing about grief: it makes you sooooo tired. I'm sure it's that and not the nine zillion calories I eat every day in an attempt to smother the grief with Nutella and wine. Because that's what I do. It's been my modus operandi since Thomas died. I try to kill grief with food, or somehow disable it with credit card transactions (like when I bought two pairs of shoes on the way home from errand-running this afternoon). Both are effective, but only fleetingly. Somehow I'm still pretty sad. And kind of fat. Huh.Oh, shopping and eating do work in the moment, of course.

  • From the "outside looking in" files:

    13 Jun 2011 | 5:02 pm
    'Tis the season for graduations on Facebook. These days my wall is flooded with announcements about little ones saying goodbye to kindergarten, changing schools and getting bigger and bigger each day.They tug at the heartstrings, these innocent posts from people who are lucky enough not to realize that a little boy growing up is actually something to celebrate, not mourn.I would give just about anything to have been blessed with that kind of luck.And so it goes.
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    Our Own Creation

  • Zoë’s Day

    A.M.S.
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    She was exactly 21 days old, four years ago today. Had she been born on THIS day four years ago, she would probably still be here. Sweet Zoë Harper. Your little sister doesn’t quite understand why I keep scooping her up for hugs and burying my face in her neck today. She’s humoring me with [...]

  • Lennox Maximilian

    A.M.S.
    5 Jan 2012 | 9:56 am
    Four years ago today we sat in that room and held you for the first and last time.  We looked at your tiny fingers and stroked your dark hair.  We never saw you open your eyes.  You slipped into and out of our lives without ever making a sound. We only had three short days [...]

  • Fourth Birthday

    A.M.S.
    2 Jan 2012 | 3:52 pm
    Tomorrow should be your fourth birthday. There should be Two cakes. Four candles on each. Presents. Hats. Songs. Balloons. Who would we describe as “the quiet one”? Would Lennox be a wild and crazy little boy? Would Zoë be a girly girl or a tomboy or somewhere in between? Which one would people say, “You [...]

  • Growth spurt

    A.M.S.
    16 Nov 2011 | 9:11 am
    I swear, this child outgrew her diapers overnight. We use cloth diapers, which I love, but it’s a big expense all up front when we have to buy new ones, so I’ve been clinging to these diapers for a veeeeery long time. They still snap around her chubby little legs and her Buddha belly, but [...]

  • Six years?

    A.M.S.
    10 Nov 2011 | 6:43 pm
    First of all, thanks to Mel and her magnificent Lost and Found for reminding me! I find myself a bit scatterbrained these days. Wow. Six years. It seems like such a long time ago when I created the original account on blogger. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t think anyone would [...]
 
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    The Stork Lawyer®

  • Sentencing of attorneys who plead guilty to baby selling. Is it Enough?

    Liz
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:53 pm
    I have been following the cases against my former colleagues Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman for some time.  I had known for awhile about the investigation but was still stunned when the plea agreements became available to the public and I began discussing the details with colleagues and officials in the Justice Department.  I know stuff like this probably happens more often than any of us care to admit.  It always has and it always will.  What is that expression about there always being thieves and crooks among us?? But my blog today — which is very different than that which I…

  • What you want to know about surrogacy in New York and why you want to know it!

    Liz
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:38 pm
    I have been watching all the coverage of the birth of Beyonce’s baby and the rumors she used a surrogate, and I have been fielding questions from clients left and right about whether this is true (I have no idea, please stop asking.  This is what I get for engaging in legal debate on FaceBook!).  I do have to say, however, that I am somewhat surprised by the lack of knowledge about surrogacy laws  in New York.  Most people think it is totally illegal under all circumstances; they are wrong.  Most people think no one ever uses a surrogate in NY; that also is wrong.  Most people…

  • Making an Egg Donation Cycle Work. A brief look at what you might need to know to increase your chances of success!

    Liz
    19 Jan 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Through egg donation, many infertile women are now able to experience pregnancy: sharing their thoughts, feelings, blood supply and the sound of their voice with their baby, and delivering their child into the world. The success rates offered by many egg donation programs are somewhat staggering, making this a very popular option in family building, especially for women dealing with the NOvary™. Egg donation is often so successful that some can potentially build an entire family from one egg donation cycle. Of course not every egg donation results in a pregnancy, but more often than not a…

  • The Starbucks Sperm Donor

    Liz
    18 Oct 2011 | 3:47 pm
    There have been a ton of interesting articles in magazines recently about third party assisted reproduction.  One particular article caught my attention and both intrigued and kind of grossed me out. The article was in the October 10th/17th edition of Newsweek, “You got your sperm where?”  The discussion in the article focused on how people are finding sperm donors (SD for short) through the internet (the “virtual” donor).  The article described one donor-recipient match and donation that was initiated through web contact and fulfilled via a donation made in a…

  • I got Baby Proofed!

    Liz
    23 Sep 2011 | 6:32 pm
    Summer reading lists.  What was on yours?  I read several great books including one which much to my surprise dealt with infertility, adoption, egg donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, single parenthood, and child-free living AND didn’t offend me!!  Not only did it manage to avoid offending me (a pretty hard thing to do when you are writing on topics so near and dear to my heart) but it dealt with these topics with such accuracy and such insight that I had to ask my colleagues what the deal was — had this author been infertile and I didn’t know about it?????? The…
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    Women's Health and Fertility

  • How Can I Have A Year Of The Dragon Baby?

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Question:Dear Doctor,We are a Chinese couple who would like to have a baby this year. We have been trying for many months in the natural way for timing the baby for the Dragon year but we are not successful so far. We are thinking that maybe we can make our chances better for a baby this year if we go see a baby specialist here in Hong Kong. My wife is 34 years old and I am 38 years old. We have been trying for six months now. If we try for test tube baby, can we choose for a boy or girl? What would you suggest would be the proper next step for us?Thank you, you are very kind for your advice.

  • 34 Year Old With One Tube, Endometriosis, Abnormal ANA: What TTC Strategy Do You Recommend?

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm
    Question:Hi Dr. Ramirez,I am writing to you as I am now desperate with our situation and hoping to get some push from someone who is knowledgeable in this field. I am 34 and my husband is 40. No kids from both sides. We've been TTC for 2.5 years now. When we started, our bloodwork both came back normal as per my family doctor although he mentioned that my ANA (anti nuclear antibodies) is out of the normal but he said he's not sure if it has something to do with fertility or not and he'll leave it up to our RE to decide. My ANA is positive 2+ speckled pattern.I've always been regular with a…

  • Woman Wonders: Natural FET Cycle Vs. Controlled FET Cycle?

    12 Jan 2012 | 9:37 am
    Question:Dr. Ramirez, I have some embryos frozen. I have adenomyois and endo and chronic endometritis diagnosed.Have done antibiotic treatment with uterine lavages and IVs.After depot lupron treatment, is it better to do a natural FET (frozen embryo transfer) or medicated FET. Since it takes about 2-3 months to wait for period to arrive is it better to do a medicated FET? I am concerned about medicated FET as the last time I did a medicated FET I had fluid in the uterus although nearer to transfer it disappeared and I did go on to transfer although BFN (big fat negative).My RE seems to want…

  • Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia & Infertility

    7 Jan 2012 | 9:08 am
    Question:Dear Dr. Ramirez,Thank-you for reading this message, I greatly appreciate your advice.My husband and I have been trying for a baby for just under 3 years. During the last year we have had 3 cycles of IUI and 3 cycles of IVF all of which have been unsuccessful.I have PCOS (although the lean variety with normal BMI) and my husband has an above average sperm count, no issues with motability etc etc.Recent blood tests revealed a chemical pregnancy with a level of HCG at 25(this was outwith IVF) and a very high 17-OHP level (13 x normal level). DHEAS level was normal. The tests were…

  • Implantation Problems & Causes Of Chemical Pregnancy

    26 Dec 2011 | 9:49 am
    Question:Hi again, it's K. in NY. I have written to you in the past about my difficulties staying pregnant. I have had 7 chemical pregnancies in the past 18 months and one miscarriage at 9 weeks after using femara (you felt it was probably due to a respiratory virus I contrated around 6 weeks). I tested positive for MTHFR mutation heterozygous but also this didn't appear to be the issue.I guess I have a 2 part question for you. The first would be related to causes of chemical pregnancies. My progesterone levels have been on the low side of normal (even during the pregnancy that ended in…
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    InVia Fertility

  • What will happen to me on the day of my Intrauterine Insemination?

    Jennifer Moroniak
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Patients often wonder what happens on the day of intrauterine insemination. This blog explains the details Continue reading →

  • The Stress of Infertility: How Do I Handle This?

    dr mary speno
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    In her second blog, Dr Speno offers helpful suggestions on how to deal with the stress associated with fertility treatment. Communicating with your partner, seeking support and educating yourself are three steps that can go a long way toward reducing stress. Continue reading →

  • Celebrating ICSI’s twentieth anniversary and the birth of more than 2.5 million children

    Dr. Vishvanath Karande
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI is a widely used technique for treating severe male factor infertility. Using a micro manipulator, a single sperm is injected into the cytoplasm of an egg. Pregnancies are achieved even in men with a "zero" sperm count using testicular sperm! This blog discusses an interesting paper by one of the original researchers of ICSI where the history of ICSI is discussed. Continue reading →

  • I need the 6.30 am appointment

    Sue Beckman
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Cycle monitoring is an important part of fertility treatment that requires frequent office visits. These are often scheduled early in the morning to minimize disruption of our patients regular work schedule. One of the issues that arises for the scheduling staff is when several patients request the earliest slot. Sue Beckman in this blog discusses this issue and also emphasizes the importance of patients showing up for their appointments at the scheduled times. Continue reading →

  • Make it stop! How to handle morning sickness and other early pregnancy symptoms

    Victoria Mostov
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    In her follow up blog, Victoria Mostov discusses tips for managing early pregnancy symptoms. Morning sickness, tiredness, heartburn, constipation, dizziness, mood swings are all part of a normal pregnancy and if you follow her advise chances are you will find it easier to cope with these symptoms. Continue reading →
 
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