In addition to working a marvelous Graco event at Babies R Us two weekends ago, I also had the very unique privilege to attend a Graco Home Party last Thursday, hosted by the ever-lovely Charlene of CharleneChronicles.com and the very posh salon, MiniLuxe in Wellesley, … Read More »
Pregnancy & Parenting After Infertility
Stories about the precarious liminal space of pregnancy after infertility and the often uncertain territory of parenting after infertility.
Wordless Wednesday, Part 1: Crazy Pills Edition
For those of you who may be injecting all kinds of fertility drugs into various regions of your asses and abdomens, or to any of you in the early stages of pregnancy while still taking said drugs (like yours truly) - I know you can relate to this: I just feel so bad for … Read More »
My First Trip to Babies R Us, Courtesy of Graco
I mentioned earlier this week about my first trip to Babies R Us last weekend. I was there helping out at an event to promote Graco's new SnugRide® Click Connect™ 40 car seat. Retailing for $219.00, you can get it at Babies R Us and online. I headed out to the Braintree, MA … Read More »
The Invisibleness of Infertility: To Pass or Not to Pass?
Welcome to Day 4 of the "To Mom or Not to Mom" Open Salon with yours truly and Pamela of Silent Sorority. We created this dialogue to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from our unique perspectives. Why? To parse out the concerns and vulnerabilities of transition within … Read More »
The First Ultrasound
It's officially Team Zoll #3 and #3 only. Our ultrasound was this morning and we got to see our very healthy singleton. After building myself over twins for the last few weeks, it was actually a relief to find out we're only having one baby. Whoa. That looks weird and feels so … Read More »
The Queendom of Mommyhood: In Which I Claim My Crown
Welcome to Day 3 of the "To Mom or Not to Mom" Open Salon with yours truly and Pamela of Silent Sorority. We created this dialogue to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from our unique perspectives. Why? To parse out the concerns and vulnerabilities of transition within … Read More »
The Other Keiko: Motherhood’s Alternate Universe
Welcome to Day 2 of our open salon, hosted by yours truly and Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority. We created this dialogue to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from our unique perspectives. Why? We seek to parse out the concerns and vulnerabilities of … Read More »
To “Mom” or Not to “Mom”
To Mom or Not to Mom: A 5-Day Open Salon on Infertility, Motherhood and the Silent Sorority Welcome to our open salon, hosted by yours truly and Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority. We created this open salon to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from … Read More »
Houston, We Have a 3rd Beta and an Ultrasound Date!
Just a very quicky post to update the beta trajectory. Had my third beta yesterday morning. Funny story: I got up super early, as the lab at my clinic is only open 6:30-8:15am every morning. I get there and it was literally standing room only. I've never seen so many people in … Read More »
Seeing Pink, Blue – and Green
For two years, I've been driving around with a box of pregnancy tests in the glove compartment of my car. Back when I was on the Board for RESOLVE New England, I grabbed one of the bright pink boxes of First Response Early Results pregnancy tests sitting in the basket for our … Read More »
