Hey Lovelies, I want to take a really close look at a dichotomy I experienced during IVF. The idea of when life starts and what constitutes a human baby became very confusing to me this month. Let’s start this by
Micro Post: Embryos Or Babies
IVF Cycle: Embryo Update
Hello Lovelies, First and foremost, thank you all for being such an understanding group of chicks. This has been a crazy-ass time and I was seriously thrown for a loop with my emotions this cycle. I still don’t know if
Micro Post: Radio Silence
Hey Lovelies, Ok… time to come clean. I’m fucking losing it. The period between egg retrieval and embryo transfer is torture. When you know that, in a lab somewhere, your precious embryo-babies exist. Those babies that you’ve been aching for,
IVF Cycle: Egg Collection Update
Hey there Lovelies, I’m now part way through this IVF cycle! I can’t even believe it. They’ve taken my eggs out of my body and put them into a mixer with hubby’s sperm. I hope they all enjoyed a free
Micro Post: Can’t Focus
Hey Lovelies, This IVF cycle has been very interesting. I intentionally booked myself off of substitute teaching this month so that I was available whenever the clinic needed me, but I also thought it would give me time to focus
IVF Cycle: Week One Update
Hey lovelies, IVF cycle one is in full effect! It’s been a busy week of stimulating drugs over here at the MacDonald household. I had my ultrasound and blood work to see how everything is going. Here is the run
The Sky Is Falling
Good Morning, Chicks! Here comes another Squawk Box post! Yippee! In my world things are coming along. Today is day 4 of ovarian stimulation and tomorrow is my first follow up ultrasound to see how everything is growing. Thursday I
The Cusp Of Prophecy
Hello Lovelies, I will warn you now… This post is a liiiittle crazy. I may have swum off the deep end of trying to conceive, and you know what? I don’t care. It’s nice over here in crazy-ville, we have
Micro Post: The Crazy Things I Never Thought I’d Do
Hello Lovelies, So this is it. The week is finally here. I will get my period any minute now and then, dun dun dun, start stimulation! For those of you that don’t speak IVF yet that means this is the
Words Cannot Help
Hey there Lovelies, There is a thing that happens when you are riding the roller-coaster that is infertility. There are major mood swings: up and down, up and down. Every month. Multiple times a month. During the ups you start