The Results

I’m sure this is the post many have been waiting for. First, thank you for coming along on this journey with me. Your support has been overwhelmingly amazing. I wish I would have shared while we were going through it. I could have used the collective support and prayers from all of you. We went […]

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Embryo Transfer

August 18, 2020 Embryo Transfer Egg retrieval recovery went well. I rested which wasn’t so hard since everything is closed anyway. Husband’s recovery is a little rougher, but he did well. The biggest issue is constipation. The anesthesia causes your system to get stopped up and it has been rough.  We got the call the […]

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The Journey to IVF

Monica standing at a metro stop in DC.

*This post talks about the most recent events leading to IVF. These events happened in 2019. It was a sunny day in southern California. In June 2019, I sent the email. This was the inquiry about starting the process of IVF at Walter Reed in Bethesda, MD. Here I was 10 years after first contacting […]

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Why don’t you have kids?

One of the questions I get asked a lot is why I don’t have children. It used to be asked of me almost daily but people now realize that there are different life choices. Being a mother seems like it should be a choice that any woman gets to make. It’s a given. Our bodies […]

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