Maintaining Your Friendships After Baby
Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under Infertility, Relationships, pregnancy | 3 Comments
Your fertility treatments worked, you are pregnant. Now what? Are you prepared for how your life is going to change. Some women find the transition from infertility to pregnancy a difficult one. They are not sure what they are supposed to do now because all they’ve known how to do is “try” to get pregnant. [...]
Read More..>>The Innocent Conversation
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under Infertility, Relationships, pregnancy | 4 Comments
Recently my husband and I attend the 40th birthday party of one of his friends. We were expecting to see two other couples we know, but but one couple couldn’t make it because they are in the process of adopting a second child and the birth mother wanted to meet them that night. A few [...]
Read More..>>Re-Write Your Story (Twin Peas Podcast, Episode 20)
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under Infertility, Personal Growth, Podcast, Relationships, Resources | 1 Comment
Are you living a joyful life? Is there something in your life that you would like to change? Do you think it is possible to live the life of your dreams? These are tough questions when you are in the midst of infertility. How can you life a happy life when you are so sad [...]
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Re-post from GNMparents and Reviews
Posted on December 27, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility, Relationships | 4 Comments
Below is a reprint of an article I wrote for GNMparents: Last week I saw a disturbing post on Twitter. There was a link to an blog post about “the” Childless B*tch. I was so taken aback that my curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the link to read the post. [...]
Read More..>>Creating Holiday Joy (Podcast Episode 19)
Posted on December 5, 2008 - Filed Under Marriage, Personal Growth, Podcast, Relationships, communication | 1 Comment
It’s that time of year when everyone is full of holiday cheer – or at least that is the hope. However, holidays can be very stressful. It’s the time when family members get together, some for the first time since the last holiday season. The holidays are extra stressful because people say or do things [...]
Read More..>>Holiday Horror Stories
Posted on November 24, 2008 - Filed Under Relationships | Leave a Comment
We all have our holiday horror stories. My worst holiday ever was four years ago – the day we brought our daughters home from the NICU for the first time. It should have been one of my best holidays because I had so much to be thankful for. Alisa complied some stories of being Thankless [...]
Read More..>>The Male Perspective
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility, Relationships, pregnancy | 1 Comment
When my husband and I were trying to have a baby I rarely consider how he felt about the monthly disappointment of not getting pregnant. Partially because he didn’t seen to be bothered by it. It was his opinion that it was just taking a little longer than most people, but that everything would be [...]
Read More..>>Four Years Ago
Posted on November 3, 2008 - Filed Under Premature Births, Relationships, contest | 1 Comment
Four years ago I had the worst month of November of my life. My daughters had already spent one month in the NICU and one of my twin daughters was extremely ill. There were days I wasn’t sure she was going to stay with us. My days in November 2004 were full of test results [...]
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