Yeah.  For real.  It’s in my kitchen.  This is totally different from the mound of clothes, books, toys, etc. currently taking over my bedroom.  This is in our kitchen: Making it look like a baby lives here. And it was on sale for about half off, making it a better price than any of the [...]

So it’s really amazing how much better my back is – yesterday was bad, but then, yesterday morning I was in too much of a hurry to do my quickie stretching routine before heading off to work.  And I paid for it.  Once I hobbled in to the ROP, I lay down on the couch and [...]

I want a sickeningly expensive stroller for Thor. In my defense (because I do feel like I need a defense) I anticipate using this stroller an awful lot.  For anyone who’s not familiar with the “culture” of Brooklyn/Manhattan, walking is simply how you get places.  I have a car, but I have no idea where, [...]

So SuperStarOB pissed me off yesterday. After leaving a sniveling message begging for a callback -that I thought would surely get results, because I sounded pretty pathetic according to my co-workers – I still had to track him down after 3 o’clock.  I didn’t even want to talk to him, just to get a recommendation [...]

So – did you know that when you move embryos from an (uncovered, loose on a plastic tray) petri dish into a surrogate mother’s uterus, it’s called ‘Implanting embryos’? And did you know that although your IVF doctor tells you it might take a couple of days after “implanting embryos” to get a positive reading [...]

So I think the ‘aches and pains’ part of this pregnancy has officially begun.  I managed – through judicious use of a pillow between my knees – to eradicate the thigh/groin pain of the early days.  However, my hands and feet and knees ache like I’m 80 and arthritic.  It’s worse in the morning, or [...]

So I think I’m having Braxton Hicks contractions.  Absolutely the weirdest feeling: my belly tightens up until I could bounce a quarter off it.  No pain at all, or even discomfort.  Just tightness.   And my belly hasn’t been tight since I was approximately 14. It’s weird and sort of scary in a “this is [...]

Ok, so it turns out I’m totally in love with feeling this baby move.  He’s been waking me up by practicing his kung fu moves, and I think it’s freakin’ adorable.  He’s been terrifying the dog when she lies with her head on the raised pillow of my belly, and I think it’s wonderful.  I [...]

I noticed today that my Google reader queue is getting a bit thin.  So many women are in between cycles, not blogging so much now that they’re mommies, or simply not blogging so much…  I think I need to visit your actual sites (instead of being a cheater and going through my reader!) and go [...]

Two years ago on Mother’s Day we were gearing up for our very first IVF.  How cute we were.  So optimistic!  So STUPIDLY optimistic!  Preparing for IVF on Mother’s Day – isn’t that just precious? One year ago we were feeling like veterans, getting ready for our FET after The Year From Hell.  But again, [...]