Shots!

Holy moly, I was not looking forward to this.  Despite my many tattoos, I am not a fan of needles by any means, but after a 5 day break, it was game time.  First chunk of treatment called for a shot in the morning and shot in the night, all in my well cushioned belly.  …

Ball is in Play

The waiting game was brutal. All the ducks were in line except for the fact that Health Canada changed the rules between baby one and baby two.  The donor signed a form declaring that he hadn’t had certain illnesses or health issues within five years.  Although that was good enough for many years, including the …

The Consult

The date was set and all we had to do was get down there.  We shoved the family in the car and made the 12 hour trek, praising the inventor of the portable DVD player for amusing our toddler on the way.  As we were attending the fertility clinic to get the down-low on how …

The Referral

Let's rewind to over a year ago.  Now that I had decided that this was going to happen, the next step was to go get a referral.  Not only can you not just walk into a fertility clinic, but you generally have to wait a good chunk of time so I wanted to get at'er. …