Hadley Miscarriage Spotting is every woman's worst nightmare during pregnancy, and it is very common in early pregnancy, especially with IVF, and unfortunately, I started spotting. After talking with the IVF nurses, they determined that
Hadley Telling People Call me old-fashioned, but I refuse to let infertility steal away the joy of surprising my family and friends with the news that we are PREGNANT! So, I may still go a little
Hadley Evan Finds Out Here's my journal entries from the day of finding out (the post image is just prior to our conversation with Jessi's mom): Today's the day! 7:57am Today's the day that we find
Hadley Finding Out After a few weeks of Evan being so adorably over-protective of me (telling me to be careful, to not stand, to not move too fast, all out of fear that I would "
Hadley Transfer Day Words actually cannot describe how special this day was. On Day 5, we were given the news that we had 2 healthy embryos, as well as 3 that were getting an extra day
Hadley IVF Cycle 1 IVF starts with stimulating the ovaries to harvest eggs that will be used during fertilization. Typically in IVF, the goal is to harvest and fertilize as many eggs as possible. Due to our
IVF Mixed Injections Whew! I just gave Jessi her first mixed injection. The first few days we were doing the Lupron injections, there was only one medicine, so I just had to put the syringe into
IVF IVF Blessings - God is in Control We have had so many blessings already in our IVF process, where God has shown us that His hand is on this entire process. After being told that our insurance authorization would take
Hayden Where Are We Now So, now it's the end of June and it has been two months since we lost our precious Hayden. We are still grieving for Hayden, and for Avery. We actually lost Hayden on
IVF IVF by the numbers Jessi and I can be very analytical people. We made and used extensive spreadsheets to help us with other life-altering decisions. Spreadsheets have helped us choose an internship and a post-doc position, and
IVF How We Chose IVF How we got here There have been several times during our journey of infertility where I wondered — Will we have to do IVF someday? Will we ever be able to have children someday?
IVF Pioneering This Sunday at Nightlife, we had a special guest speaker, the powerful and eccentric Andre van Zyl, from South Africa. He preached a message about having a Pioneering Spirit. His emphasis was on
Hayden Father's Day Reflections Today, I took a walk down to Calvary Cemetery to visit this tree that I've visited before. It is special tree in a special little place, alone in a small clearing. I came
Hayden Naming Our Little One We chose to name our first baby that we lost through miscarriage, Avery. It was important to us to cherish the life God gave us, even if we could not keep Avery with
Hayden Love Poured Out I wish I could describe all the way God demonstrated his love for us through our friends and family during this process. We had people pray for us and with us. We had
Hayden An Unexpected Twist 48 hours later, on Saturday, we had more blood work to make sure that everything was progressing as expected. They had cleared me to go on the trip back home to North Carolina
Hayden A Tough Brofest This year's Brofest was a tough one for me. It was a continual tug of war on my heart, my mind, and my emotions. I was getting up early to go to the
Hayden "Unfortunately, you are miscarrying again" It was finally time. We had waited the 48 hours we needed to to find out if the baby was okay after the cyst bursting on Tuesday. The doctors said that the baby
Hayden Brofest Begins! Evan's college friends have an annual tradition of getting together, which they have dubbed "Brofest." This event is planned for months, and is highly anticipated. This year, four of them were
Hayden My Birthday My birthday this year was a rough one. As you've read from Jessi's article, we spend the majority of it in the hospital, on a frightful ride of news from the doctors. I'm
Hayden Something Is Wrong... It was my husband's birthday, and we have a tradition of laying out birthday presents on the placemat in the morning. We celebrated together, and had dinner plans later that evening. I went
Hayden Telling... Everyone The first time we were pregnant, we were really sure that we did not want to wait the recommended first trimester to tell people for several reasons: Safety in pregnancy is never 100%
Hayden Telling Evan's Family We had already planned on going to see Evan's family the weekend after we found out that we were pregnant, because Evan's sister, Emily, was in town and Evan's birthday was coming up
Hayden Telling Jessi's Parents We could not wait to tell our families! We were able to convince my (Jessi's) parents to Google Hangout the next day under the guise of "planning my trip home." My
Hayden Finding Out It was early in the morning on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, and I convinced Evan to let me take a pregnancy test today. We had just taken a month off of fertility, as