Created in Paris... discovered while in Korea... and debuting this July... Our magical miracle, baby girl Park, is on her way! Words cannot describe our joy. If you're familiar with my story, you know we never thought we'd be able...
Category: IVF
The ghosts of daughters future: babysicles round 2 (electric bugaloo)
How can you miss something you've never actually had? Paul and I recently completed our second round of IVF embryo freezing, and through the miracle of science, we have produced another healthy female embryo. In addition to the two we...
Supplementally Speaking…
For most of my life, you couldn't pay me to take vitamins on a regular basis. My aversion to their size and taste had me reaching for Flintstone's chewables or Emergen-C in the rare instances that I actually would cave...
Sugar n’ spice n’ everything nice…
The "Babysicles" Saga - THE CONCLUSION: "Babe, there's babies in a lab with our name on them. Does that make you happy?" "Yeah! I mean not like, Del Taco Nachos happy.... but so close!" Paul's sense of humor is pretty...
Writing this post made me need a nap. No, but really.
The "Babysicles" Saga - Update #2: Where did we leave off? Oh, yes. THE NEEDLES. I have been giving myself 2-3 shots, nightly for the past 10 days now. Friends, it's none of the fun. I mean, at first, you...
Estrogen is a helluva drug.
The "Babysicles" Saga - Update #1: (yeah, I just referred to my future children as babysicles. what about it? They're gonna be in a freezer for the next howeverlong, and it sounds better than "frozen babies", or "embryfroze". Although fro-yo...
How an episode of New Girl changed my life (or: the frozen baby story)
Last December, I was sitting in the living room of my mid-divorce crash-pad (you know, that friend's apartment where you live for a few months before you can bear going out into the world on your own), in the midst...