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Loss

Thank you

23 November 2006 Loss

I’m overwhelmed by your collective kindness. Beloved and I and even my mother are simply in awe of your support, of how many of you have taken the time to offer support, share your experiences, or just send a word of condolence. Thank you simply doesn’t cover it. Physically, I’m doing surprisingly well. (You would [...]

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Adding insult to injury

22 November 2006 Loss

Warning: this will not be a pretty post. You don’t have to read it, but I have to write it. I’m sorry. I wish this could all just be over. If I can’t have it back, I at least wish it would hurry up and be done. They’ve scheduled my D&C for 3 pm today. [...]

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Random attempts to cope

21 November 2006 Loss

The hardest part for me right now is making sense of what happened. By all measures, this was an exceptionally healthy pregnancy: the high early betas; the fact that the risk of miscarriage falls to less than 5% after that first ultrasound showing the heartbeat; the initial integrated prenatal screening results that were, in the [...]

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It’s over – a miscarriage

20 November 2006 Loss

I went in for a routine OB appointment today. I was delighted when she told me to hop up on the table so we could ‘take a listen’ – I had completely forgotten I should now be far enough along to hear the baby’s heartbeat on the doppler. Except she couldn’t find it, and so [...]

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Saying goodbye to frostie

2 August 2006 Frostie

I’ve always believed in a greater order to the universe, if not in an actual higher power. Not exactly fate, because I believe we do control our own destinies. But I strongly believe that everything happens for a reason. That makes it only marginally easier to say goodbye to frostie. No need to pee on [...]

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I have no idea what to call this post

1 August 2006 Frostie

I’ve spent a lot of this past week and a half pretty much obsessed with my breasts. They’ve always been the canary in the coal mine, my first indicator of pregnancy. As such, I must have groped myself several thousand times since frostie became toastie. There are entire freshman classes at large universities who have [...]

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The big infertility story

29 December 2005 Infertility

I’ve been thinking for a while about telling you our infertility and IVF story, and I figure now is as good a time as any. Most of you are busy eating leftover turkey and shopping for deals at the outlet stores, so we’re into light blogging mode. It’s a long story, so much so that [...]

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