by Amy | Sep 23, 2014 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family, Pregnancy
Just follow these easy steps: 1. Have your first baby at 40. 2. Start trying for #2 and panic when it doesn’t happen right away. 3. Assume fertility treatments are your only hope. Start with IUI and quickly gateway to the hard stuff – IVF. 4. Try IVF...
by Amy | Jan 22, 2014 | Babymaking, My Family, Vanity
Remember that time I was on Ricki Lake? (I’m going to assume she wasn’t canceled because of me.) Anyway, guess what? I’m going to be on TV again! And this time, I’m bringing Viv. That post I wrote about my secondary infertility struggle, the...
by Amy | Dec 3, 2013 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
Author’s Note: If you’ve been reading Carriage Before Marriage for a while, you know my IVF odyssey wrapped up nearly a year ago. Writing this post for mom.me gave me some closure. I know how lucky I am to have my daughter, and we haven’t totally...
by Amy | Nov 7, 2013 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family, Parenthood
As a mom, there are a few questions I hate answering: When are you due? Um, never, that bump is left over from the baby who’s now in preschool. When are you going back to work? I don’t know! I’m not ready. Are you planning to have another one? Lady, unless...
by Amy | Jun 1, 2013 | My Family, Our Situation
Lord, I’ve upset the Catholics. Okay, just one Catholic, writing for AltCatholicah.com, in a post that was picked up by pop culture website Acculturated. Go read it, I’ll wait. Here’s the author’s beef with me – when Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead reads a mom blog, she...