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It�s funny... I almost forgot how crazy doing fertility treatments can make you and how nothing ever goes as planned!  My Period is Late  After my consult, I was started on Provera to try and induce my period. I had just weaned and I guess my hormones are all out of whack because my period decided not to make an appearance. I started to worry, but there�s really nothing that can be done. It needed to come by 8/26 in order to make the September retrieval dates.  The Plan: October Retrieval  Since my period didn�t happen, my cycle will be pushed back to October. The reason October sucks: retrieval week is the week of Halloween.  I�m hoping I�ll be able to get a retrieval date AFTER Halloween... Halloween is a big deal for my son & I don�t want to miss any of the fun stuff we do as a family.  If I waited for the next retrieval, it would be the week of my son�s birthday. So way worse than Halloween week! Both weeks are not ideal, at all. Which... is so typi...

A few months ago I posted that I was thinking of Baby # 3 (post link:  Thinking of Baby 3 ). Well... Ive decided to move forward!!!! Initial RE Consults December 2017 - Consult with different RE When I started thinking about trying for baby #3, I started to consider another RE. I have a few friends that used another RE and they absolutely loved him and say only great things about him. I thought, hey - let me give it a try. The RE had a LONG wait list. I got on the wait list almost right after I gave birth, just to get an appointment. I scheduled the appointment in July of 2017 to get a December 2017 consult. Things that were really cool about this RE: All paperwork was electronic. They gave me an iPad to fill out my new patient paperwork.  The office is 15 minutes from my house!!! My old RE's offices are 30-40-and 60 minutes away.  His prices can't be beat. He's a couple grand cheaper than my RE.  The RE is really engaged and nice. I really liked him, very personable...

Man oh man... pumping at work was extremely hard to adjust to!!! It took me a few weeks to really get down a rhythm. Here's what ended up working for me: Work Days:  Nurse baby when he woke up.  Early days: Pump before I left home (I had an oversupply and would leak on the way to work). Eventually I would cut out the morning pump, when my supply regulated and my baby started waking up/nursing closer to the time we left home. Pump at work 3x's a day, every 3 hours (scheduled on my work calendar).  Nurse baby at daycare pickup or right when we get home.  Nurse on demand throughout the night. Night feedings stopped when my baby was about 6 months old. When he stopped nursing at night, I would sometimes pump at midnight (or 3 hours after his last nursing session) because I was engorged and leaking.  Weekends : nurse on demand and pump (1-2x's, if engorged)  My baby started daycare a little after he turned 3 months old. He started with only 3 oz of breast milk, ...

I wish I would've been able to keep up with the blog to track our breastfeeding journey. Through early struggles, a tongue tie, pumping at work - I did manage to breastfeed until my son was 14 months old. I'll try to write a summary! Jaundice The first month was tough with Baby C having jaundice. We began supplementing with formula right away and I started pumping right away. Not what I had planned. The first month was difficult, where I would try and nurse, then supplement with formula, then pump - to keep my supply up. Very little sleep during that time. Nipple Shield When he hit one month, my pediatrician finally gave the green light to stop supplementing and exclusively breast feed (EBF). Then the next issue came, trying to get off the nipple shield. The nipple shield worked great for the beginning, as my baby had a horrible latch. It took about one week of purposefully trying to get him off of the nipple shield before he would latch on his own. Thrush I thought we were get...

It�s been so long since I�ve posted. My main obstacle with posting is that I used to use a Blogger App on my iPhone - which is no longer available. I hardly go on my computer and it�s hard to post in the web browser on my iPhone. I also have very little time to write!   Life has been extremely busy. It sounds so cliche to say that, but it really has been. The 2017 holidays were a whirlwind of activities and I thought it would lighten up after the New Year, but it really hasn�t. I think this is just the new �normal� - busy, lots to do, little time, endless To-Do list, constant motion, never a dull moment.  Since I last wrote, my oldest turned 4 and my youngest turned 1! I�m still breastfeeding, which I�m totally amazed that I�ve managed to do for so long. My oldest is in his last year of daycare (Pre-K) before he starts Kinder in 2019, my youngest just transitioned to the 1 year old toddler room. For me, my work life has gone up a few notches. I am now the manager of my group, ...

My son�s 2nd adoption anniversary is this month. It�s so weird that he has only been my �legal� son for 2 years. It�s almost easy to forget how uncertain things were while I was fostering him and how I lived in fear that something would happen and CPS would take him from me. Now, he�s almost 4 and he has such a personality. He�s also starting to understand �adoption� a little more.   I know there�s so much controversy on celebrating Adoption Days. I don�t really look at is as �celebrating,� I look at it more like �remembering�... talking about how we became a family & reflecting on it. I think as my son gets older that he will have more say in how and what we do to �commemorate� our adoption.  I actually don�t call it �adoption day� or �gotcha day.� I don�t really like those phrases. I refer to it as our �Family Day.� Now that baby boy has arrived, I�m planning to integrate both of their stories in our �family day� tradition. We have a unique situation where one Child is a...

I had my Women's Wellness visit today and was able to meet with my OB. My OB is pregnant! What I didn't know when I was pregnant is that she went through IVF for her first and used the RE that I have a consult with next month. She was surprised when she got pregnant "the old fashioned" way with her current pregnancy, as she suffered from infertility when trying for her first and was gearing up to do IVF again. Very happy for her! To be honest about everything, every since I was pregnant I had contemplated whether I would try for a third. It's been on my mind a lot. Mostly because I knew that I would have to go through another IVF retrieval if I attempted again... and I knew the timing would be really tight due to my fertility issues.  Well, I spoke to my OB about "when can I try again?" She said it's best to wait 18 months to let your body recover 100% from birth. We also talked a bit about my diabetes.  Here's the deal with my diabetes. It was 1...