At the ripe old age of 34 my life started over. I'm passionate about cooking and trying new dishes. I dabble in scrapbooking and home decorating, and I have an impressive shoe collection. I love to travel to new places, but Honduras is my favorite. After trying to get and stay pregnant for almost 2 years, we are expecting our first baby May 9th, 5 days after my 38th birthday.



Chris is the most amazing man I've ever known. After "meeting" on match.com, we had our first date December 12, 2007. We were engaged by July and married on October 11, 2008. I would be lost without him. I never knew life could be this good!



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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Made it to the 3rd Trimester

Most days I can't believe I made it this far. In so many ways this still doesn't feel real to me. I feel like I'm playing make believe and just pretending to be pregnant. I worry because I don't feel very bonded to this baby. I'm still holding back because I don't want to be hurt. Of course I know you can't live your life if fear, but it's still present everyday. My best friend assures me that as soon as she's born I'll be bonded and I really hope she's right.

On a positive note, the nursery is almost done. It's come a long way in 2 weeks. All we need is one curtain panel, the rug, a table skirt and lamp. We need to hang things on the wall, but I'm waiting for a decal I ordered from ETSY. I think I'm going to post pics on Rate My Space. I know that could go south and I could get some nasty comments, but I love the way it's turned out.




I’m 29 weeks!!

Baby’s Size: Baby Beavers is the size of a butternut squash. At the ultrasound on Tuesday the Dr said she weights 2 lbs 7 oz.

Weight Gain/Loss: up 10 lbs (I feel like I'm starting to pack it on)

Maternity Clothes: Maternity jeans and a few tops. Still wearing several regular shirts, but big ones and wraps with tank tops.

Symptoms: Stuffy nose, hunger, restless leg, very very tired, and starting to get a tad uncomfortable

Foods I’m Loving: Peanut Butter, milk, Petro's baked potatoes, sushi

Foods I’m Hating: Meat if I have to see it raw or cook it, if someone else cooks, it's fine.

Sleep: Starting to have problems sleeping, restless legs make it hard to go to sleep, can't sleep on my stomach anymore and I have problems sleeping any other way.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

What I Miss: Wine, sleeping on my stomach.

What I’m Looking Forward To: My showers the last weekend in March and the nursery being finished.

Milestones: 3rd Trimester!!!

Emotions: I feel kind of irritable, but trying not to take it out on anyone and I cry pretty often.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Bump Update

I'm 27 Weeks!!




I absolutely hate the way this dress makes me look like Shamu and I won't be taking another picture in it. Fitted maternity clothes are more flattering on my body type. But it's a pain to set the camera up on the stairs and use the timer and at least my hair was washed so I'm going with it.


Baby’s Size: Baby Beavers is the size of a head of cauliflower

Weight Gain/Loss: up 7.5 lbs (no, I didn’t want to round up).

Maternity Clothes: Maternity jeans and a few tops. Still wearing several regular shirts, but big ones and wraps with tank tops. I really want some new maternity clothes but I am going to try not to buy anything. I work from home and only need a few nice things to go out in. I would like to get something cool for our maternity pics, but can’t find anything I like. Where does everyone get all the cute maternity clothes? I can’t find any anywhere.

Symptoms: Stuffy nose, restless legs, tired and sleepy. HUNGER. It’s starting to get uncomfortable to get up off the couch or out of bed.

Foods I’m Loving: Peanut butter, Petro’s loaded baked potatoes, craving sushi (wish it could be spicy tuna).

Foods I’m Hating: Pretty much only raw meat disgusts me right now. If I have to see it raw or cook it I don't want it.

Sleep: Sleeping pretty good right now. Pretty soon I won’t be able to sleep on my tummy. Really dreading that.

Gender: It’s a GIRL!!!

What I Miss: Wine. When my husband has some I usually sniff his glass and ask him to kiss me.

What I’m Looking Forward To: The nursery being finished.


Milestones: I saw movement on the outside. And when I was in the tub, she kicked so much it made the water ripple, that was pretty cool.

Emotions: My worry has calmed down a little bit, maybe because she is moving so regularly. She definitely has patterns, and moves a lot more in the morning than at night. I feel like I’ve been a little irritable, but that may just be the weather, I'm ready for warmth and sunshine!!!



And just for fun, here's a look from the front:

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Monday, February 7, 2011

What I Wish My Closet Looked Like

I know I'm not a very good blogger. Honestly I'm not a very good writer. I'm a much better talker. It's hard for me to put things on paper from my head, it never comes out right. However, I love my bloggy friends and reading all their news so I try to keep this updated every now and again. And it helps me remember stuff for my scrapbooking.

I've been nominated for several blog awards and I want all you ladies to know how much I appreciate it. I'm just a little too tired to actually do a post about it. I'm one week away from the 3rd trimester and I'm already getting tired again. Bone tired. I'm sleeping pretty good at night even though I have to go to the bathroom because I'm too tired to wake up. Chris usually wakes me up every morning to ask if I want breakfast and has said he couldn't get me to wake up a couple times. I think he's given up on me ever eating breakfast with him again.

We're working away on the nursery. The closet is finished and the amount of clothes this child has is obscene.
This is before all the shelves were in and is just one side, but I'm too tired to take a new picture. ha!


Yes, those are her shoes. Mommy has a shoe problem.



These are tubs of clothes people have given me that I haven't gone through yet.

I ordered the bedding a while ago so I have that. I got a chandelier from PB, need to get Pops to install that for me. However I cut through the string of crystals when I was unwrapping it so I have to take it to a jewelry store to get it repaired. I ended up buying a dresser at a local furniture store and resisted the $1300 one I wanted from PB. I ordered a pistachio colored chair and ottoman off Target.com. It's currently sitting in a box in my garage where my car should go. I have the curtains, but they're too short, I need 96 inch, so I have to exchange those when we go back to Nashville, and I want to get a rug from PB. We painted this past weekend and the woodwork will get done some time this week. Whew! So we have a lot done, but it seems like there a lot of little things to make it a finished product.

I have my 27 week pictures, but I don't want to overwhelm everyone with a super long post so instead I will do 2 post in one week. I know, it's a miracle!!! But I promise to make it happen.

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TTC #2

April 2012 - Back to RE, Bloodwork is good, order drugs from overseas

May 2012 - Uncle Robert dies, have to be in Memphis when cycle starts, postponed until next month

June 2012 - Cycle day one - wrong - cyst on right ovary, put on BC to calm ovaries

July 2012 - Ovulated through the birth control, tyring old fashion way, did PIO and heparin shots, BFN

August 2012 - 150 U.I. Follistim 1x/day, only 1 egg, cancel Ganirelix, go ahead with IUI #1, 22 million sperm post wash, heparin & PIO injections - BFN

September 2012 - Skipping a month, couldn't get the drugs in time for the start of my cycle

October 2012 - 225 U.I. Follisitm 2x/day, Ganirelix, 3 mature follicles, IUI #2, 22 million sperm post wash, PIO and heparin injections - BFP

November 2nd - 1st beta, not good - 9

November 5th - 2nd beta - 3, chemical pregnancy

November 2012 - 2 weeks BC

December 2012 - 225 UI Follistim 2x/day, Ganirelix, 3 mature follicles, IUI #3, 18 million sperm post wash, doxycycline, PIO and heparin injections,

December 19th - BFN

January 2013- 2 weeks BC, 150 IU Bravelle 2x/day, Ganirelix, 2 mature follicles, IUI #4, 20 million sperm post wash, doxycycline, PIO and heparin injections - BFP!

January 29th - 1st beta - 42

January 31st - 2nd beta - 43, not good

February 4th - 3rd beta - 320! What? Maybe this is going to happen after all!

February 7th - 4th beta - 1196, RE says I have graduated to OB!

February 13th - 1 beautiful baby, saw the heartbeat, too early to hear it, measuring exactly 6 weeks

February 22nd - Heard heartbeat!!! Measuring perfectly at 7 weeks 3 days, Due date - 10/8/13

April 25th - It's another girl!!!!!

TTC Journey to #1

October 2008 - Married, never started BC

December 18, 2008 - BFP, second month trying!!

January 2009 - Miscarriage 7w2d

February - April 2009 - trying old fashioned method, no luck

April 2009 - First RE appt. SA:163 million, excellent motility & morphology

May 2009 - HSG all clear, IUI #1 - BFN

June 2009 - 50 mg clomid, IUI #2 - BFN

July 2009 - 50 mg clomid, IUI #3 - BFN

August 2009 - Follow up with RE, says 1% chance of getting pregnant, recommends IVF

September 2009 - I don't believe Dr, decide to go to Chinese Medicine Dr & Acupuncturist

October 2009 - Appointment with CM Dr, orders an expensive, out of pocket hormone test. I go to get records from RE, surely he tested hormones, right? WRONG, never did any basic hormone tests

November 2009 - Appointment with new RE, testosterone level elevated, diagnosed PCOS, 1500 mg Metformin, Birth Control for 1 month

December 2009 - Femara & HCG trigger shot- BFN

January 2010- Femara, HCG trigger shot, scheduled IUI, think I'm ovulating before giving trigger shot, go for Progesterone test, already ovulating, IUI canceled

February 2010 - Femara, Injectibles, trigger, IUI #4 - BFP

March 5th, 2010 - 1st beta - 79

March 8th, 2010 - 2nd beta - 96

March 10th, 2010 - 3rd beta - 99, Diagnosed as chemical pregnancy, never start on my own

March 17th, 2010 - 4th beta - 113, U/S, nothing in uterus, Ectopic, Methotrexate Shot

April 2010 - Tested positive for heterozygous G20210A & MTHFR gene mutations, started baby aspirin and Folgard.

May 2010 - Laparoscopy - tiny bit of stage 1 endo removed from left ovary, drilled right ovary, no blockage found in tubes.

June 2010 - Mixed Cycle - Femara and Bravelle injectibles, trigger shot, 3 good follies, 46 million sperm post wash, IUI #5, Heparin injections - BFN

July 2010 - Femara + Bravell, trigger, 2 follies, 29 million sperm post wash, heparin injections, IUI #6 - BFP

July 27, 2010 - 1st Beta- 29

July 29, 2010 - 2nd Beta - 22 - Chemical Pregnancy

August 2010 - Bravelle, Ganirelix, Trigger, 29 millions sperm post wash, heparin & PIO injections, IUI #7 - BFP

August 30th- 1st Beta - 90

September 1st - 2nd Beta - 209

September 8th - 3rd beta- 4150

September 15th - 4th beta - 29,481

September 20th - 1st Ultrasound - 1 beautiful baby, measuring 6wks6days, heart beating away

November 23rd - It's a GIRL!!!

May 2, 2011 - Quinn Caroline born at 8:25 PM, 7 lbs 14 oz, 20.5 inches

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