This year I am reflecting on my own mother and other strong women for Mother’s Day. I love listening to podcasts. I happened to be listening to one that helped me reflect on my own mother and the example that she’s given me. I’m the oldest of 3 in my family, and my parents got …
Trials, and why Infertility happen to me?
Growing up I always thought if something bad happened to me I had done something wrong in my life. I did all the things required as a good christian: What I’ve learned since is that bad things still happen to good people, that’s just life. We all are given trials. When Chase and I were …
Infertility and Self Preservation
what does it mean to go through infertility and self preservation? I’ll explain that in this post, if you’ve been feeling the same. I asked this question to a Facebook Infertility Group: “For the past few years, I don’t have that burning desire to become a mom. Like it’s nowhere to be found in my …
Five Ways to Stay Healthy During the Holidays
How are we going to stay healthy the holidays? After posting about Chase’s weight loss journey, I realized we are getting closer to the holiday season. Where you want to eat All. The. Foods. “How am I going to survive when I want to eat everything yummy?” is what I keep thinking. Training for the …
Running and Fertility Treatments
Running has been given a bad reputation when it comes to infertility, fertility and fertility treatments. You might be asking why? I had the same question. I started researching and trying to figure out if running while trying to get pregnant was okay. I’ve always been a casual runner, never an elite runner who can …
Things Learned from my First IUI
I had my first IUI and I got my hCG test back and it was negative. You aren’t pregnant if your levels are below a 5, and mine was 1.82. The same day as my beta, I started bleeding, and cramping really bad, so I knew it was going to be negative. I’ve read that …
Life doesn’t go the way you planned it
From marathon training to infertility treatments. Life doesn’t always go the way you plan it. This picture says it all: Life definitely hasn’t gone as how we thought it would go. We don’t have kids, we have 2 dogs. We don’t get to go on vacations with our children, we go on vacation by ourselves. …
Things that are Don’t be Bitter be Better
We can choose to be better instead of being bitter. Let me give you some thoughts that have helped me through our infertility journey. In church I heard a sister say that when praying to the Lord we sometimes will say “okay, do what you can,” but He reply’s with “no, do what you can.” …
How exercise can improve your mood
So often we forget when we’re in a bad mood, or down and depressed that exercise can improve your mood. While I was writing, things that we wished we could change, I realized I haven’t been running or doing any type of exercise for quite a while. I have felt down, depressed, and not wanting …
Things you SHOULD say to an infertile couple
I have read all over social media things you “SHOULDN’T” say to an infertile couple. Can we please focus more on the POSITIVE things you SHOULD say to an infertile couple? When I get really down it seems like everyone vanishes from my life. I think that it’s cause I’m supposed to get help from …