Insurance Companies can suck it!
on Nov 2, 2009 in RESOLVE insurance companies infertility IVF I was having a conversation with a girl the other day who was asking if she could talk to her human resources department about changing their insurance plan to cover fertility treatments. I told her to go for it- the worse they can say is no, right?

Fast Facts about Adoption
on Oct 29, 2009 in pregnant adoptive parents adoption I will get more in depth about adoption- but I am going to start with just a few quick facts. - One in ten Americans has either been adopted, been a birth parent to an adopted child, or an adoptive parent. - Most adoptions today are "open" or "semi-o...

A New Path
on Oct 27, 2009 in parents pregnancy parenting adoptive parents adoption I thought I would finally come out of the closet, we have decided to pursue adoption, and it feels so good. John and I started talking about adoption about a year ago, but really did not start getting serious until the last few months. After our seco...

The Right to Choose?
on Oct 20, 2009 in pregnancy pregnant fertility infertility After all these months of trying to conceive without success I have gotten very upset about the entire thing- so recently I started thinking about why am I so mad? If you asked me 5 years ago about having kids- I would have said that was the farthest...

Pregnant with 2 babies, but wait they aren't twins!
on Oct 14, 2009 in identical twins superfetation pregnant fertility infertility Imagine Todd and Julia Grovenburg’s surprise when doctors found not one, but two babies on Julia’s ultrasound – and then told the parents the babies weren’t twins, Doctors think Julia and Todd conceived baby girl Jillian first, and two-and-a-...

Follow up about Jewelyn
on Oct 1, 2009 in sadness nestie pregnant With the recent death of our dear "nestie" I have done some research on her cause of death. It's amazing how in the year 2009 women can still die in childbirth, isn't that something that happened back in the medieval times, not now, at least that's w...

Tears for someone I never knew
on Sep 29, 2009Today I found out that a fellow "nestie" as I so affectionately call them passed away during childbirth. Her name was Jewelyn and she and her husband Phillip were so excited on the birth of their first child, a girl. Jewelyn went into labor on Saturd...

My take on the embryo situation.
on Sep 25, 2009 in pregnant infertility adoption IVF First off, I have to say that my heart goes out to this couple. First to go through the pain of infertility and then to go through IVF to get pregnant only to find out it's not your biological child, I can only imagine the pain that she is going thro...

Couple Gets the Wrong Embryo, But Still Wants to Have the Child.
on Sep 23, 2009 in pregnancy embryo adoption IVF embryo transfer ...

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