infertility

I stand here in the same spot I’ve stood in for twenty-nine months now. Occasionally, I’ve paced. Always, I’ve hoped. But I’ve stood here on solid ground. Twenty-nine months of trying for just one more baby. If I inch close to the edge of the hill, there’s a patch of loose gravel. And I know that if I place my...

You grasp my hand and pull me toward the booth where the hostess waits. There is no longer any discussion of a high chair or booster seat. You simply won’t have it. You hoist yourself onto the seat, bounce two times for good measure. The server greets us and you order milk, please and reach for the crayons. Your...

Dear Craig, As I write this, I’m sitting in my hotel bed, 400 miles away from you. And in just less than an hour, it will be our anniversary. But I am here and you are there. And as much as it pains me to be away from you, I am here because of...

So you know that feeling when life has finally fallen into a comfortable groove? When you have a schedule, a sense of predictability and relative calm? There’s only one cure for that. Get a puppy. Perhaps this is the first step on our journey to accepting that our prayers for another baby will go...

The first nudge came on Friday, as I stood between the rows of grapevines, just dripping with the juicy, green grapes of this year’s harvest. As my friend Lisa so generously took some new headshots for me there in the golden sunshine, I felt something familiar. Yesterday–the first full day that my family has been together...

So, for the past couple of months, I’ve been dying to share a secret with you. No, we’re not pregnant yet. (I know, right!?) But I do have a new baby, of sorts. And that new baby is allParenting, a new online magazine for moms—the product of many talented women (and a few men) and...

This week, April 22-28, 2012 is National Infertility Awareness Week. Last year I posted the story about my struggle with infertility on my short-lived other blog. Because so many of my readers here are new, and because I feel that Infertility is an imp...