by Amy | Sep 4, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
My birthday is the deadline. If I’m not pregnant by then, I’m pulling out the big guns and doing IVF (It’s Very Fancy). Did I mention my birthday is this weekend? Yeah, so, to prepare, I scheduled a consultation at the fertility practice where we did...
by Amy | May 30, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
Hi, my name is Amy and I just got artificially inseminated. Have you ever been curious about this stuff? Because I’m happy to tell you all about it. Oversharing is one of the great joys of blogging. For me, the IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) process kicked off with...
by Amy | May 20, 2012 | Babymaking, Couplehood, Infertility, My Family
I consider myself a fairly competent person, but there are several things at which I suck. My penmanship is messy. My desk is even messier. I am cranky in the morning. I am fearful of merging from the 110 freeway to the 101 and have a lousy sense of direction....
by Amy | Apr 2, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
We’re trying to get pregnant and my lady cycle’s been kind of wonky so we decided to pay a visit to our friendly neighborhood reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Rosenpenis. Not his real name or face. If only. Dave and I had assumed that conceiving a second...
by Amy | Feb 12, 2012 | Babymaking, My Family
Dave and I are thinking about baby #2, so I’ve started gearing up. I cut back on caffeine, loaded up on vitamins and dusted off my trusty Clearblue Easy ovulation monitor, just to make sure everything’s in good working order. Every morning for a week, I peed on a...
