You know what they say, "
If at first you don't succeed try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again!". After 4+ years of infertility, guess who is finally knocked up? I know exactly what you are thinking:
"Oh no, your perky sport boobs!"
"Gross, TMI!"
"I really admire your patience and positive attitude in the face of adversity and disappointment" "How in the HELL???"
I peed on theseI am no math
wiz, but I think our odds of actually conceiving with our pathetic history were calculated at less than 1% so you can imagine our SHOCK when the pregnancy test (which expired two years ago) was positive!!! Now, you may have already the heard the news if you are friends with my mother on
Facebook, have run into her at Midtown Foods, have recently seen me toting my puke bucket and Ritz crackers around, or are a PT patient of Steve's. Otherwise, SURPRISE!!!
Truth is, we didn't do it alone (well yes, we did IT alone). Prior to starting another adoption next spring, we figured would try some alternative therapies before plunking down the hefty adoption fees (so worth it, but still very expensive). We had heard that some couples with unexplained infertility benefit from
acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Because we love egg rolls and because my health insurance covered acupuncture, I made appointments for both Jake & I.
Operation Balls of Glory was born! We never actually thought it would work, in fact I was 75% done with our new adoption website. Less than two months of needles and funky ball-shaped herb pills later, it worked!!!
Chinese herbs
I am officially 13 weeks (due end of May) and feel like total crap most of the time, very nauseated and exhausted everyday, but grateful for the experience. We saw the baby on an ultrasound at 7 weeks and heard the heartbeat at 11 weeks... so far, so good! We are grateful for our infertility journey because it brought us
Norelle, who we could not live without!! It taught us how much we longed to be parents which helps us appreciate every single day. It is also a reminder that life is not fair and good people face hardships of every kind. All wonderful lessons, you know, like once they are over.
132 lbs and climbing
In true
SoS fashion, I would be remiss if I did not mention all of the celebs who are also due around the same time: P!
nk,
Mariah Carey, Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim
Zolciak, Anna
Duggar, Rachael Zoe, and local non-celeb pals Jana, Angie
Mc, and Sabrina S-T. Keep us all in your prayers!
Hoarder's: Christmas edition
the star and her star
relaxing!
Pastor Danny and his daughter Madeline in Peru last month
