Just wanted to quickly update how things went at the 17 week scan. Nora is holding steady with an MCA scan of 1.18 (normal!) and no anemia so far. What an incredible miracle, especially since we know she is kell positive! Our sweet Lucy had her first MCA scan at 17 weeks and it was […]
I am still wondering why I lost Jude and Pax. It is always in the back of my mind. I know exactly why we lost Lucy, my immune system thought she was something dangerous and it attacked her. My own body killed the baby it was supposed to protect. I know that the same thing […]
*I have lots of posts written and ready to publish, but I can’t work up the courage to put them out there. It is often hard for me to be vulnerable and it is scary to let so many people in. It is easy to get caught up in what people think. I wrote this […]
One year ago today I saw Lucy and heard her heartbeat for the first time. I also found out I had anti-kell antibodies. I was nine weeks pregnant and went to my first doctor’s appointment. Josh skipped one of his classes to come and see the new baby on the ultrasound. I had a nagging […]
*Several years ago I wrote a blog post called Anti-Kell Antibodies: Dr. Moise’s New Treatment and I promised to update the blog when there were new developments. This is the update 3 years in the making! *Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. This is what I understand about M281 and the phase 2 trial […]
On this day eight years ago we went in for our second intrauterine blood transfusion with our baby Lucy. Her first IUT went perfectly according to my MFMs. It was performed a little over a week earlier at 18 weeks gestation. But it didn’t really go perfectly, we know that now. A few days ago […]
Our baby Callum is two months old today! He is such a sweet boy. His favorite things are cuddling, sleeping in our arms, Mommy’s milk and Daddy’s voice. He really doesn’t like loud noises, lying flat on his back, bright lights and baths. He is smiling now and holding his head up (but still a […]
We are moving to a new house for the second time in 11 months. I have moved so many times in my life, but this has been, by far, the weirdest move I’ve ever been through. A very sweet family from our church offered to let us stay in their house while they were in […]
So, we’re still waiting to get that positive pregnancy test. Liam just found a thermometer today and asked, “Did you get two lines yet? I don’t see two lines on here.” I feel like I’ve spent so much of my life waiting for the next big thing. I couldn’t wait to graduate from high school […]
This is hard for me to write. I had to gather all of my emotional energy just to sit down and write this post. We are losing another baby to a very early miscarriage. This is our third loss in eight months. We are disheartened and discouraged and just so tired. These last two early […]
Josh and I have decided that we will keep trying for more children. We don’t want to stop at two (on earth.) As most of you know, my first two pregnancies were perfect, normal pregnancies (besides the constant nausea for four months, but that’s still “normal.”) Each pregnancy went to 41 weeks and ended with […]
So sorry for the delay…our beautiful miracle baby, Nora Juliet, arrived last night after only four hours of labor and a single push. I will write her whole birth story out later when I have time. She was 6 pounds and 15 ounces (much smaller than we thought she would be!) and we still haven’t […]
Our baby Callum is two months old today! He is such a sweet boy. His favorite things are cuddling, sleeping in our arms, Mommy’s milk and Daddy’s voice. He really doesn’t like loud noises, lying flat on his back, bright lights and baths. He is smiling now and holding his head up (but still a […]
It is hard to believe that my daughter would be turning five this year if she had been born alive. How did I survive five whole years with this ache inside my chest? I wonder who she would be today. Would she be reading super early like her brothers or would she show no interest […]