Parenting

Details of the Procedures

Along with myself, I am sure you have had a few questions about what all these procedures mean, what they do, and the details. I wasn’t sure where to find the best descriptions, but of course about.com had the best details. Of course for each fertility clinic, numbers may look a little different. I feel…

TWO Embryos

Quick update! TWO embryos fertilized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The nurse called at 8:30am this morning and said 8 eggs were retrieved, one was immature, BUT, two FERTILIZED! I can’t tell you how much joy I have in my heart right now. To think that there are two Dan and Kristin’s hanging out at the clinic right now. It is…

Egg Retrieval Done!

We are home! I am going to warn you – I am still under the influence of IV sedation and valium, so some of the sentences and trains of thought I have, might not make a whole lot of sense. We arrived in Grand Rapids a little before 8:45am, and there sure weren’t a lot of people there at…

Continuing the Story…

Continuing our embryo adoption story… Our hearts ached. Ached and ached for those who were in the same predicament we were in: desiring children. Dan and I would sit in our living room and have conversation after conversation, talking about how we could possibly help these couples. These couples can carry, but cannot conceive. We…

Nesting

With Mother’s Day approaching, it can be an occasion that can bring such mixed emotions for so many people. Last year, Dan and I were in South Carolina and we were so at peace with Mother’s Day. There was a reading that we had gone through at the church we attended down there and it…

What IS a Mom?

I was thinking about how to describe today. I opened up my email and saw I had a facebook message from my friend Kelli. She wanted to let me know about a quote she heard today and she thought of us: Carrying your baby doesn’t make you a mom – it is what happens when…