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Cradles and Graves: Whole Lotta Lovenox
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Friday, November 26, 2010. Maybe I'm a little weird, but I like to know what I'm injecting into myself. We already explored what is used to make stimulation meds ( Human pee. Today let's take a look at the making of heparin. You might want to get a barf bucket . . . This heparin recall happened right when I started trying to conceive again after losing Jeremiah and Miles. Yeah, back when I thought I. Get pregnant again just by having lots and lots of sex. Ha! I actually called Aventis, maker of Lovenox, ...
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Cradles and Graves: June 2015
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Sunday, June 14, 2015. I named my rainbow baby Anastasia. Because I loved how the meaning of the name is so pertinent to what we had to go through to have her. The meaning is usually said to be "resurrection", but there is more to it than that. Anastasia comes from the Greek word anastasis,. Which also means "a raising up" and "a recovery from a debilitating condition". There is no doubt that she has raised our family up to a better place. This time, the biggest difference is that I'm coming at it from a...
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Cradles and Graves: The Physician Menace
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Monday, June 8, 2015. I am so fed up with doctors I could just cry. I fact I have. Things have been very tense around here lately and the pregnancy is just part of it. I'm at eighteen weeks now and have been feeling the baby move for a couple of weeks now. Hopefully this is a sign that all is well with baby and that it will continue this way. And did our little story finally end happily? At Severe already and I want to know what Dr. Collins thinks about these images before I hit the road. After that, I w...
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Cradles and Graves: A Brief History
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Saturday, April 18, 2009. Here's a quick rundown of our situation (summarized as best I can from the massive stack of medical records I have here! My husband is 35 and has no health problems. I'm also 35 and was diagnosed with endometriosis and lost one ovary in 2008. I've had problems with cysts and pelvic pain for the past 9 years. David born April 2003. First noticed slightly lagging growth at 20 week ultrasound; more serious by 30 weeks. IUGR (5# even) APGAR scores. Meconium and Nuchal cord. Miles lo...
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Cradles and Graves: Inconceivable
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Due to lack of time, I haven't been able to document this pregnancy like I did for the last one, so I'm just going to have to summarize the last three months and try to do better going forward. Let's hope there will be five more months of going forward. Here's the timeline so far:. Family vacation in Texas. Besides visiting tourist sites in San Antonio and Dallas, we also met with a couple of friends, including Cindy (see here. Her husband, and two miracle kids! After spending year...
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Cradles and Graves: Doctor Dammit
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009. When you're just fed up with doctors. Who don't listen, care, or try. And pain has made you go insane,. Lose your cool and cry. When every doctor's clueless. And your future is in doubt. Then here's a little dammit doll. That you can't do without. Just grasp it firmly by the legs. And find a place to slam it. And as you whack the stuffing out,. Yell "Dammit, dammit, dammit! If "dammit"s not a word you say. Then wring its little neck. As as you rip its head off. Great advancem...
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Cradles and Graves: The Reign of Terror
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Thursday, February 10, 2011. The Reign of Terror. Two more weeks until the very detailed ultrasound. Will we make it that far? It's been nice to at least get a little peek at baby each week and know that the heart is still beating, but on these ultrasounds there's no way to see any details of smaller structures, such as. Is there hypercoiling again? Am I just trying too desperately to see some clue about my baby's fate? And one with parts labeled by me. Only to have the same thing happen again. Perhaps i...
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Cradles and Graves: Baby Got Back
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Saturday, July 25, 2015. Weeks 22 through 24:. We are back in Minnesota with baby still alive and kicking at 24 weeks. I've had one appointment (NOT at the perinatal clinic! And got pics of the cord finally! I'm supposed to go back again in three weeks. It's a long time to wait. The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don’t like can be overwhelming.”. Hyperbole and a Half. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). WARNING: This blog contains adult situations and psychological nudity.
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Cradles and Graves: Miles' Story
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Friday, July 17, 2009. Today seems the most appropriate day to post Miles' story, because it was two years ago today that I was in the hospital again, having labor induced again, because we'd just found out our baby boy had died. Even better, we found out on Easter Sunday and the due date was just before Christmas! It seemed like such a beautiful blessing. Hubby and I had decided early on in this pregnancy not to tell family and friends about our good news, though we made a few exceptions for good friend...
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Cradles and Graves: Who's That Girl?
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Thursday, April 21, 2011. Mei-mei is now 24 weeks along. Supposedly viable, but hopefully she'll keep baking until at least July. Today's appointment was short and sweet. The doctor used my favorite word: normal. Everything is looking normal! Also this week I finally quit procrastinating and went to the dentist for a checkup. Alas, one small cavity but it can wait a few more months. I've been naughty, waiting almost a full year. Between checkups. It's just that it's been so nice. Uncommon but not weird.
