Come Visit the NEW Baby Dust Boutique + SALE!
Hello readers! Thanks so much for always visiting my blog and saying hi through the years! If you’ll remember I started an Etsy shop a few years ago with stuffed animals and some baby items. It was fun but never really went anywhere. This year one of my new year’s resolutions was to be a stronger voice for infertility. Hmmm, maybe these two things could go together? I’d always wanted mother’s jewelry that honored my kids’ unique entry into this world. My IVF miracle and Snowflake babies! Out of this the NEW and IMPROVED Baby Dust Boutique was born! I...
Read MoreThe Oxymoron of “Personhood” Legislation
I am one mad mama right now! Watch out! The ongoing list of atrocities to woman-kind that is the “personhood” movement is astounding. Personhood is the name given by its proponents to legislation intending to circumnavigate the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision by granting full rights to a two-cell, microscopic zygote only moments after sperm penetrates egg. North Dakota, Mississippi, and Oklahoma currently have personhood legislation in the pipeline. These thinly-veiled attempts to curb the legal right to abortion have bled over into a litany of other anti-woman...
Read More‘Extra’ Embryo Options
When I had my oocyte (egg) retrieval back in 2008 they harvested 29 eggs. Of those 17 fertilized. Of those 12 arrested by day 3 or 5 (stopped growing). That left me with 5. We transferred 2 fresh on day 3 – one was Aellyn. Asher and Boston were both frozen on that same day as 3-day embryos. They grew the remaining embryos to day 5 to see if we had any strong ones. We had one make it to blastocyst which was then frozen on day 5. In 2010 we thawed Asher and Boston, grew them to blastocyst (day 5) and transferred them. We have one remaining embryo in...
Read MoreQuiz: Should You Wean for Fertility Treatments?
Welcome to the Carnival of Weaning: Weaning – Your Stories This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Weaning hosted by Code Name: Mama and Aha! Parenting. Our participants have shared stories, tips, and struggles about the end of the breastfeeding relationship. One of my most popular posts of all time was Breastfeeding Through Infertility Treatments IVF and FET which was really my own research and decision making process regarding the topic. It is really a very difficult decision and most of the “experts” in the field are simply ill equiped to help you make...
Read MoreThe Presidential Election and Infertility Law
I think I deserve a pat on the back for not calling this post “Newt is an Ass”. Newt Gingrich, the disgraced former speaker of the House that was pushed out in a ground–breaking censure by his own colleagues for ethics violations, is somehow inexplicably an actual contender for President of the United States of America. Yes, in America we (at least some of us) love mediocrity – we love presidents that drop out of college and can’t even fulfill their obligations to their constituents. I literally think I’m getting a repeated use injury from...
Read MoreA Beautiful Work of A.R.T.: Books for Children about Alternative Conception
It is so important that we celebrate the wonderful way that ART (Artificial Reproductive Technology) babies were brought in to the world. Studies have shown that making it a normal part of the “how you were born” story and not saving it like a secret for when they’re older is the healthiest approach. Here is a collection of books that tell the story of conception the not-so-old-fashioned way. Hope Will Have a Baby: The Gift of Egg Donation Also available in The Gift of Embryo Donation, The Gift of Sperm Donation, and The Gift of Surrogacy. by Irene Celcer A Part...
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