Category: Our Story
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Confirming Infertility
August – September 2021 The end of summer into the fall brought a lot of heartache. Due to the lack of success with Clomid, we found ourselves sitting at my August follow-up appointment exhausted. Since we didn’t become pregnant in the three months as expected, it was suggested I receive an ultrasound of my ovaries,…
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A Summer of Clomid
May through July are a jumbled mess of memories. A blur of hormones, tears, tests and too much sex. Due to the stress of the time, my brain seemed to categorized the moments instead of remembering them chronologically. These categories formed into navigation of our science experiment, moments with Mom Cone, processing Jamie’s pregnancy and…
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Infertility Spreads its Roots
March 26. I’d say this is where my mind begins to get fuzzy. Where I began to live two lives. One full of devastation and one where I’d numb my thoughts to exist in the world that was moving forward around us. It was the day my sister-in-law, Jamie, told us she was pregnant. All…
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2021. Infertility and If
I mean, “Oof” pretty much sums up the year. If I were to put it into more words…I’d say it was the worst year I’ve had so far. It was a rollercoaster of internal grief while the world carried on around us. It sounds strange, but 2021 was hard because there was still hope. There…
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Infertility sucks.
There’s not really any other way to put it. It’s hard to explain to those who have never gone through it, and it’s hard to find people within the infertility realm who have your exact situation. Our infertility journey began like anyone’s journey to have a baby. In March 2020 we started talking more seriously…
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