September is PCOS Awareness Month. While I don’t know a lot about PCOS, because I don’t personally have it. I wanted to share what I do know and hopefully help others understand and be more compassionate to those who are suffering. **Before I get started I did want to mention that I use several affiliate …
Pregnancy, Infant Loss, and Stillbirth
If you’re here because you’ve experienced loss or that you just found out you’re miscarrying or having a stillborn, You are not alone. I wanted to share what it was like for us to go through pregnancy loss and things that helped us. **Feel free to jump to the bottom of the post for the …
Ethan’s Birth Story – Stillborn, but still loved
I normally shy away from sharing anything pregnancy related here on the blog. Mainly because with infertility, you don’t need that added sadness from others’ birth stories. But, I wanted to share Ethan’s birth story and what it was like to birth a stillborn. Tuesday, April 7, 2020 I woke up not really feeling Ethan …
Preparing for an unmedicated birth
I’ve shared pregnancy updates on my Instagram page with this current pregnancy. Chase and I have felt good about using midwives and birthing at a birthing center. We had lots of questions at our initial consultation back when I was just 10 weeks. We felt they had birthed enough babies and knew what to do …
Infertility Gift Guide
I’m sharing 8 favorite infertility finds on Etsy. I hope you enjoy them as much as me. This infertility gift guide is great for gifts for someone you know who is going through infertility, or for yourself. **This post contains affiliate links. Which means I receive a small commission on any purchases made through these …
Our First NaPro Appointment
I decided after having gone through a failed IVF cycle and a miscarriage after going through IVF, that I was NOT going to do IVF again. We decided to try NaPro Technologies. If you didn’t hear, we didn’t get pregnant through IVF. Our miracle baby, Kason, was not conceived in a petri dish. We got …
How Mercier Therapy Can Aid with Fertility
When Kason was born, I realized how many harmful chemicals he was going to be exposed to. That terrified me. This pure little baby boy who came directly from heaven was now going to be exposed to smoke, harmful chemicals on his skin, and other toxins in the air. It got me thinking and doing …
3 unusual ways to pay for IVF
I wrote a post a while ago listing out my Top 10 Ways to Pay for IVF. Since writing that post, I’ve thought of 3 unusual ways to save up and pay for IVF that you may not have thought of. **I will make a small commission on some of the links you click in …
Our Infertility Journey Isn’t Over
Our infertility journey isn’t over, and this time we’re dealing with secondary infertility. Over the past year, I haven’t shared any part of our infertility journey. I kinda wanted to hide from the online community and not share anything too personal. Why? It has been the best thing to not think about growing our family …
My Month of Minimalism
This post is a bit different than many of my other posts on infertility, and exercise. If you’ve ever heard the term “stuff makes you happy,” that is a whole hearted lie. Stuff doesn’t make you happy. To me, if my house is cluttered, my brain and life seem to be cluttered. So read on …