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    My Favorite Blog Post, Our IVF Story

    February 26, 2018 - By 

    I was filling out an interview for a guest blogger feature on the I Just Wanna Finish My… blog and one of the questions was “What is your favorite blog post, and why?” I was stumped. I scrolled through my posts. There were many I really liked but none that stood out as an all-time favorite. I settled on my post about drinking wine and blogging in my activewear because I thought it was funny and very “me.” But it got me thinking about my writing and what one piece means the most to me. I realized it was one…

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    IVF Reflections: We Should’ve Kept the Petri Dish

    January 30, 2018 - By 

    Just thinking back to our IVF embryo transfer day, when the doctor asked us a question we weren’t expecting. You go through a lot of stuff when you do IVF. Stuff you don’t normally run into when making a baby. Drugs, needles, scans and lots of probing. Oh wait…I guess there’s always a little probing involved. (ha!) But one of the odder moments I recall was right after the embryo transfer, when the embryologist asked if we’d like to keep the petri dish. I recall being a little confused, thinking “people actually do that?” My husband and I pondered it…

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    Thankful the Bitterness is Gone

    November 22, 2017 - By 

    It’s time for the official what makes me thankful Thanksgiving post! And for me, every day, I am most thankful my son has erased the bitterness that used to sit in my heart and eat away at me, especially around the holidays. I was always indifferent about having children. Take ’em or leave ’em. But mostly just take them far away from me. The day I found out I was pregnant for the first time I was more shocked than excited. It was a sudden life change I didn’t think I was ready for. And then slowly the idea grew…