Part 6: Arriving at Conclusions

"I believe I‘ve passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight."
-- Billy Joel

A Cruel Joke

On the cruelest April Fools' Day ever, we learned that we are four-time losers. Another anxious visit for another ultrasound, another tiny, crowded exam room growing suddenly quiet as every... [more]

Flexing My Only Working Muscle

Returning to work at the Academy almost a week after my fourth miscarriage, I was greeted with welcomed kindness and hugs from the staff, but the kids had no idea of what had happened. They... [more]

The Mystery Deepens

Perplexed only begins to describe how we feel after learning the results from testing of our last pregnancy loss. It is another boy, and another Trisomy 15. Just as we had feared, clued i... [more]

Collapsing Under the Weight

I am saddened to learn that infertility has brought an end to a friend's marriage. Granted, as with all marital breakups, there surely were issues that ran deeper than just the fact that th... [more]

Leaning Into the Wind

We are gearing up again, for a new house, a vacation, and maybe, a new pregnancy. Jim and I have decided to stay the course for now, that is, stick with our previous plan of continuing to... [more]

Are We There Yet?

Either the universe really wants to give us another shot at it, or it's playing with our minds -- we are pregnant again. Completely unsure of how to take this news, we are both quite subd... [more]



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