An Engineer Becomes a Mom

Two engineers get married, delay baby-making and get hit with the unexplained infertility stick. Eight years: multiple failed cycles; 3 failed IUI's; 1 long adoption wait and successful adoption (Baby X); 2nd long adoption wait, 1 failed placement, 1 failed match and finally 1 successful placement (Baby Z). This is my story.

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Showing posts with label family crap. Show all posts

Showing posts with label family crap. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2015

More Family Crap

My new therapist, Dr. D has suggested that I try telling my mom what I need. For example, when I see my mom once a week at Jazze.rcise, the ...

Friday, July 31, 2015

Family of Origin

Mine is f-cked up. In a big way, and things keep happening that point it out to me. Two of my brothers were in town this summer at separ...

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

You Know When You're Sitting At Work

and come up with a really great post, start composing it in your head and then make yourself stop because, you know, work? Yeah, that. F...

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Holiday Blues and Joys and Blues and Joys

I don't know if it's getting older, infertility, adoption, family issues or what, but every year the holidays seem to become more di...

Thursday, December 11, 2014

A Gift in an Ugly Package

I wrote this several months ago, and didn't publish it for some reason. It gives some insight into how I've been dealing with the fa...

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Dealing with Family

These past few weeks, especially the last two have been rife with stress, anxiety and worry. You would think that having my family nearby w...

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Let's File This One Under

Stupid sh*t people say. To me: Did you ever have an hour long ultrasound when you were....oh, oh sorry. Me: Were you going to say...

Saturday, February 22, 2014

The Hardest Part About Therapy

is learning that I can't fix a family relationship. A close family member at that. Now, it's all about limited and appropriate con...

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

My Adoption Backstory and the Epiphany

In my haste to write the last post I forgot that I haven't really told my backstory much, except in a book tour, and possibly alluded to...

Monday, July 15, 2013

Cracked

I saw my brother (brother1) and his family this weekend. We had a needed deep and uncomfortable conversation about our parents. We ...

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