Blog Profile / Maybe Baby
| URL : | http://www.maybebabyblog.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Health / Fertility & Reproductive Health | |
| Posts on Regator: | 281 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 2, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
You Say Hello and I Say Goodbye
First things first: Very proudly, happily, and belatedly announcing the arrival of Daphne Helene, born on November 8, 2011 at 4:19pm and 7lb7oz!.
The birth went incredibly well, yet was oddly similar to our first delivery experience despite popular stories of the second time around being easier and/or faster. The we-just-birth-those-babies-after-18-hours-of-active-labor team of [...]
9 Weeks To Go
Constance suddenly is feeling huge. It’s that point in the pregnancy when underwear is getting snug, sleeping is becoming a battle of comfort and hips are popping out of place. She looks stunning, however - pregnancy doesn’t just become her, it enhances her. Daphne, our soon-to-arrive daughter #2, will be here sooner than even we can [...]
All’s Well
Constance has been very sick during this pregnancy, but aside from her constant bouts of nausea and swirling dizziness, all is going according to plan. We’ve finally been able to relax. Graduating from infertility treatments to a more regular pregnancy has done wonders for the tension levels in our home. On Monday, Constance was finally able [...]
Graduation Day
Today, after another top-notch ultrasound, we graduated from our infertility clinic to the midwives, from weekly trips to downtown Chicago to infrequent trips across the neighborhood. At 8 weeks, our soon-to-be-fetus’ heart rate was 170 bpm and measured at 16mm. Or, as the nurse told the trainee who was also in the ultrasound room, “It’s [...]
Can You Feel My Heartbeat When I’m Close to You?
One-hundred and eighty degrees for last Monday was today, a peaceful, easy morning at the IVF clinic. Unlike our hour-long wait to get into the ultrasound room last Monday, this morning we showed up 10 minutes early and were escorted right into the ultrasound room where our favorite nurse, Peggy, sat waiting for our moment [...]
Ultrasound #1, Baby #2
Oddities were in the air today at our fertility clinic. We waited nearly 45 minutes after the scheduled start time of our ultrasound before being called back to the examination room. It was a family affair, Nola reading Charlie & Lola books and constantly hoping she wasn’t going to be involved in the scrim of [...]
Onward and Outward
Constance’s blood tests revealed that her hCG levels are more than doubling every 48 hours and her progesterone levels just keep getting higher and higher by the shot. In fact, at this point everything falls within the normal or above-normal range. Our concerns have by no means gone away, but with every week and every [...]
Picture Perfect
Nola popped out the photo of Constance from this cheapo IKEA frame and then proceeded to walk around for 20 minutes as a not-so-still life. It was, in a word, adorable.
Double Up
As the news of our pregnancy was shared with our inner circle, I found myself repeating the phrase, “But it’s really early, so anything can happen,” over and over again. And while it is a scientifically true statement, it also, I realized, was largely due to the fact that I feel like this all came [...]
It’s Lucky For Us
For many reasons, we are in luck. We are, at this moment, pregnant for the second time. One month pregnant, to be exact, which means it’s also lucky for us that we know how to be cautiously optimistic as the weeks tick by so we can become a little more comfortable that it will indeed [...]
So This Is What You Think Of Me
Yesterday wasn’t just Constance’s birthday. No, there was another special person in our lives who would have been celebrating had he still been walking, and writing circles around, this fine earth.
Dr. Seuss.
He’s a part of our daily lives, as he is for many parents and children, and I’ve come to rely on his steady [...]
Happy Birthday, Baby!
Today I ask you to raise a glass to celebrate the birth of the most perfect woman in the solar system we call home, Constance Miller. I toast her beauty, her brains, and the limitless joy she brings to the lives of everyone lucky enough to know her. It is hard not being together on [...]
Potential
Friday’s transfer couldn’t have gone better. Or faster, for that matter. We were in and out in 40 minutes. Frankly, it took me longer to pick up a few things from Target yesterday than it did to defrost what could become our baby and give it a new womb home. We live in an awe-inspiring [...]
Tuckered Out
A week or two ago - sometime during the lost days of illness - I was in the midst of writing a blog post when suddenly, the house was eerily quiet. Gone were Nola’s loud, repetitious ramblings of every book she knows. Gone were the stomping feet running up and down the hallway whenever I [...]
Days to Go
It is now less than 48 hours until we have our frozen embryo transfer and I can say with gusto that I’m still not nervous. Last time we did this we were coming off 2 years of trying to get pregnant. This time we’re coming off of the joys that are raising the coolest little [...]
Count On It
Nola really loves her numbers - and taking apart puzzles. This video captures both - until my camera ran out of batteries! She can make it all the way to 13 these days, which - in my humble opinion - is pretty much all you need to know when it comes to math.
That’s Sick!
The inhabitants of our house were consumed by a vile, disgusting illness that lasted not one, not two, but nearly three weeks. Ear infections, bronchial infections, sinus infections - name an infection that doesn’t fall under the STD category and we probably had it and/or took precautions against it. During that time we did a lot [...]
Snow Bunnies
As most of you know, we’ve been swallowed alive by copious amounts of snow. My neighborhood got around 21 inches. Now that it’s all over and we made it through without losing power I can say that it was awesome. Especially the thundersnow.
It ended up being the 3rd largest blizzard in Chicago history, which [...]
Sick Is As Sick Does
The whole lot of us has been taken hostage by the cold. We are, in a word, disgusting. I would hate to be around us if I weren’t me. Thankfully, that should never be an issue unless Nola and I have a Freaky Friday moment somewhere down the road. Or, worse still, a Face/Off moment. [...]
Love and Other Drugs
Perhaps too much time has elapsed since Nola was but a wee embryo being transferred into Constance’s womb for our memories to accurately recollect the process verbatim, but holy crap there are a lot of drugs a woman has to take before and after this process begins. I remember the first go-round, receiving the giant [...]