Months 19-21

I’m actually keeping my goal of updating this blog within 3 months!  Amazing! The girls are now 21 months old, and over the past 3 months, we’ve conquered another cross-country flight and back for the holidays, met the girls’ donor … Continue reading →

Try #1 – Ultrasound #1 – Baseline

One great thing I love about the fertility center we’re going to (and went to last time when we got pregnant with the twins) is that they do a baseline ultrasound on Cycle Day 1 or 2.  This allows them … Continue reading →

Hysterosalpingogram

Although we thought we were going to get out of doing one, our new reproductive endocrinologist thinks it is a good idea for Molly to have another hysterosalpingogram, similar to when we first started at a fertility clinic before the … Continue reading →

Try #1 – Back to the Fertility Clinic

I wrote a little while ago about Molly and I beginning to pursue the initial steps of trying to conceive again.  We had initially decided to use the reproductive services through our health insurance provider, because we had known some … Continue reading →

Months 12-18

Believe it or not, I’ve had a draft of the “Month 12″ post for six months now.  The April-May months were especially busy times so I never got around to finishing it.  Then, every time I would think about how … Continue reading →

“She has your eyes…”

No, she doesn’t.  Her eyes are not “mine.” Obviously, I’m not talking in the possessive sense in that her eyes do not belong to me.  The fact is that she can’t have “my” eyes.  She was not conceived using my … Continue reading →

Month 5

I can’t believe the babies are 5 months old already. Time used to pass so slowly and now, as I expected, it is beginning to fly by. I feel like I just wrote the Month 4 post like last week. … Continue reading →

Month 4

We have been a family of four for four months! Say that five times fast! Awake time is so different as 3-4 month olds compared to the newborn stage. They are both actively searching out and reaching for objects, and … Continue reading →

Month 3

The four of us have survived the first three months.  They’re both more than twice their respective birth weights, and their personalities are really beginning to show…and they sure are different!  My nicknames for them are Crabby and Splashy, for … Continue reading →