Every three months I go there, to the lab where our infertility journey started over 15 years ago. I walk back to the room and hear the familiar buzz of the overhead fluorescent lights. My heart rate starts to increase…
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Our NICU Miracle Baby
She was born at 35 weeks, the day of my OB appointment. My blood pressure was sky high due to pregnancy-induced hypertension, and they were worried she wasn’t getting enough oxygen. She was our miracle baby, conceived after seven…
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The Gifts of Infertility
Truth time – I never wanted kids. I had big plans for my life that included a big career landing me someday at Good Morning America. But something funny happened once I was married at age 25, my biological clock…
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Saying Goodbye to My Uterus
My hospital bag is packed, but this time it’s not for the welcoming of a new baby, it’s for my hysterectomy. A decision I’ve been agonizing over for years. After living with Endometriosis my whole life, it’s finally time. Time…
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Hoping to Beat the Odds: My IVF Story
Hope is defined as: (noun) grounds for believing that something good may happen. And even after everything we’d been through, we still believed. Hope was all we had. Sure there were the laparoscopic surgeries, and the ovarian torsion which took away…
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Acupuncture and Infertility
I was the girl who passed out at the blood lab. The one who would just see a needle and instantly feel my palms start to sweat. So when our infertility doctor said after a few years of trying to conceive that IVF…
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The Day God Spoke to Me at the Spa
I’ll never forget that call from the IVF nurse who had become my friend at the clinic: “Your FSH level is down to 13, if you want to try for a second baby you have to start the injections today.”…
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