Broken Heart; Empty Arms
It’s back-to-school time. That means sales and post galore of the first day of school. It seems that everywhere I turn, there is a preschooler going to school for the first time. It hurts. Dominic...
View ArticleA New Kind of Dream
Over the years, I’ve had many dreams about our journey, none of them happy. Most of these dreams have involved another miscarriage. Usually, in the rare dream in which we successfully carry to term,...
View ArticleWe have news!
Pregnancy number 5 has begun! Once again, I’ll do a Q&A style blog again. If there’s anything I’ve left out that you want to know, feel free to ask. When did you find out? We found out a week ago...
View ArticleIn the hospital
This past Tuesday evening, I began to have a little pain in my side. I immediately thought about calling the on call doctor but decided that I was probably overreacting, so I chose to wait until my...
View ArticleHome
Just a quick update to say we are home. It’s been a rough adjustment. Just because I’m home doesn’t mean I capable of doing much of anything. I still need a great deal of help for even the smallest...
View ArticleTo try again, or not to try again?
As I always do after a loss, I’ve been questioning whether or not I want to risk going through another miscarriage. A good friend and I were talking about it last night, and I think I’ve decided. I...
View ArticleLittle things
It’s amazing the little things that can set off grief. I guess I’ve always known that this was the case – I guess I just forgot. Nevertheless, it always catches me by surprise. The most recent was...
View ArticleBIG update
First, we had our final follow-up a few weeks ago. I’m healing just fine. I still get some occasional pain but that’s from the scar tissue and is getting much less frequent. At the follow-up, I asked a...
View ArticleBusy, busy, busy!
I could get used to this. We will be ready to accept kids within a couple of weeks. We hit quite a snag with our before/after school person backing out on us be after a lot of panic and phone calls,...
View ArticleThree-Pronged Update
Twin Grief The last month and a half have been hard grief-wise. The twins were due August 19th. When you consider my family history of premature births and the fact that twins are often early anyway,...
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