Hey Everyone!
It’s been a busy couple weeks on my end of things. I have been slowly being reached out to by some people on my Facebook with questions about infertility and everything that goes along with it. I know that it is extremely hard to accept and even harder to talk about. If you want someone to talk to, but don’t want to go as far as liking and commenting on an infertility page, please feel free to private message me with any questions or concerns that you have. I will keep it confidential and will help in whatever way I can.
Graham and I went to Ottawa last week to see family there. Our little nephew is getting so big!! He is 1 year and 3 months old and he is in swimming lessons already!! Crazy!! I miss him already but it was such a good visit with everyone there. We managed to sneak in a night in Montreal to have a date and it was beautiful. We sat on patio after patio sipping drinks enjoying the amazing weather. When we got back to the hotel it was 1:30 am and still 21 degrees with no wind. It was perfect for our date. We had a really great visit with my cousin and her husband and got a lot of time to ride the bike. My butt was sore from riding by the end of the week. I flew home on Saturday and Graham has been driving home with his dad, and should arrive Thursday evening. I miss him like crazy, I don’t know how some of the ladies in my life deal with their hubbies being gone for weeks at a time. You women, are very strong women.
I’ve been getting a lot of “when are you guys going to start trying for babies again” type of questions. I just want to say that Graham and I will never stop trying, even if we aren’t actively trying on a specific month, we won’t use protection, so we won’t stop trying. This question is quite hard on me because I feel like we are back to our first year of trying and that the last 3.5 years are gone. It’s been over three and a half years since we’ve started trying for children so please take that as an answer. I’m sorry if I sound rude, or ignorant but these last months have been the hardest months ever and on top of everything with my grandpa dying, and other family members dying as well, and losing our baby, we have had a lot of very personal issues. I have been doing my best to fight through and keep smiling and I feel like I’m almost out of the tunnel, I survived Mother’s day, thinking about little Abigail through the whole day, and only let myself cry at night. I have survived the heartbreak every month since losing her, and sent prayers up every day for another child, and Graham has been holding my hand, fighting the same fight, just as hard as I have. We are healing, we will never forget and we will never stop trying. So to answer your question, when are we going to start trying again, the answer is September, 2009 is when we started trying.
Last, but certainly not least, I would like to shout out a BIG congratulations to two very special ladies in my life. First of all Congratulations to Carla on the birth of her sweet baby boy, Bradley Charles Keats, born at 11:24 on May 7, 2013, both Mommy and Baby are healthy and happy and at home comfortably. Second… and this one is huge… as you know I run an infertility page on Facebook with an amazing woman in St. Louis, Missouri, named Lindsay. Lindsay and her husband have been trying to conceive for 3 years and were told that having children naturally, without the help of a fertility treatment, would not be an option. I am very very happy to announce that my good friend, and founder of the page, The Dream of Being Called Mommy and Daddy, is expecting their first child in November, conceived naturally. Prayers are with them, and especially her, during this pregnancy and I pray that everything goes as normal and smoothly as possible.
