Daisy | July 13, 2010
Writing about one’s birth story feels indulgent; the details are usually of interest only to the participants. I don’t think the telling of mine can be avoided, though, if I intend to blog about parenting, so bear with me. Most pregnant women in their late 30′s are already a little bit too, too mama. We [...]
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Tags: birth, epidural, labor, premature
Daisy | July 13, 2010
Despite being 35 when I remarried — and knowing what that meant in terms of natural pregnancy odds — the storyteller that lives in my head was convinced we’d have a honeymoon baby, conceived while listening to the serene waves from the beaches of Phuket. Two days of food poisoning didn’t exactly help the cause, [...]
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Tags: advanced maternal age, ART, clomid, infertility, IUI, IVF
Daisy | July 13, 2010
I think early in my life I took it as a given that I would one day be a mother. Life changes us. I married my college sweetheart. It was a bad decision from day one (which is NOT to say that he was a bad guy, necessarily). Because we know now that [...]
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Tags: Auntie Mame, childless, divorce, parenthood