*Thought this posted earlier today, apparently it did not, here it is now! And depending on who you ask, I’m either into or just about into the second trimester as I have completed twelve full weeks (or ten full weeks of actual baby development or eight full weeks of actually knowing what is going [...]
The midwife office was… interesting. It’s a small place with a waiting room that looks like it needs quite a bit of updating. When we walked in, we weren’t really greeted and C made a point of saying hello. Though they’ve worked with same-sex couples in the past, their paperwork was very heterofocused with “father [...]
Off to the midwife appointment in a little bit and I have to say, I’m quite nervous. Nervous to meet new practitioners, nervous that I might not like them, nervous because the world of prenatal care is so vast and even with recommendations it seems like it’s pretty much a crapshoot. The practice we are [...]
So back in the beginning of December, my dcotor wrote me a note for work, indicating that I needed to limit physical activity. Fast forward twenty days, and HR tells me it’s “too broad” and that they won’t be able to accommodate that sort of letter. After a bit of phone tag, the doctor invites [...]
How has it been eight weeks already? How do I have four more to go of this trimester?! I warn you now that this will be a post full of TMI fluids and rambles. I have not made it a day this week without vomiting sometime in the morning. Today I thought I was going [...]
… since I’ve missed posting for three days for the blog challenge! We’ll go in the style of the song, backwards from most to least. Four French Hens: Travel Tales Prior to meeting, C, I was only a for-vacation, for-adventure traveler and then only rarely because travel was expensive and not native to my family [...]
I first started posting about the medicalization of conception shortly after meeting with our RE. In that initial post, I focused on the questions one begins to ask when starting down any kind of medical ttc path. Other posts followed, focusing on the control (or lack thereof) that welcoming the medical profession into your home [...]
Today marks six weeks of pregnancy and, as though it Dr. Googled it for me and wanted to keep me on schedule, my body has taken to small bouts of nausea (and one large vomit-filled bout last night in response to my wife cooking taco meat for dinner… still gagging thinking about it). I have [...]
Tomorrow marks two weeks until our ultrasound. I have to see the doctor tomorrow to get a note for work (yes it’s early, yes it’s necessary) and it is going to take everything I have not to bump that appointment up a little sooner (it’s scheduled for 7w3d). It’s like taking a pregnancy test. I [...]
Finally got a call from the doctor today at 1 pm. Less than twenty four hours after the draw? Yes. An eternity to C and I? Absolutely. My original level was 106. Today, seven days later, I was expecting to hear numbers between 800 and 1200. My number? 3562. Quick (online) calculations tell me that’s [...]
