Role Playing with Kids: This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Lesbian Movies to consider Horrible ( ) Bad (+) Fine (++) Good (+++) Buy (++++)

1 Take into consideration that all ratings are based on the knowledge that 99% of lesbian films are extremely low budget, non blockbustery, independent films
A Girl Thing ++
A Perfect Ending ++
A Village Affair ++
Aimee and Jaguar ++++
All over me ++
Amour De Femme +++
And then Came Lola ++(+)
Better Than Chocolate ++++
Between two Women +++
Big Dreams Little Hope +
Bloomington +++
Bobbie's Girl +++
Bound +++
Brushfire
Butch Jamie +
Childhoods end
Chutney Popcorn ++
Claire of the Moon +
Clara's Summer ++
Cynara : Poetry in Motion
D.E.B.S +++
Daphne +++
Desert Hearts +++
Drifting Flowers +
Elena Undone +++
Everything Relative ++
Family Pack +++
Fingersmith ++++
Finn's Girl ++
Fire +++
Floored By Love +
Four Minutes +++
Frida +++
Girl Play
Girl seeks Girl ++
Go Fish +
Goldfish Memory ++
Gray Matters ++
Hannah Free +
Henry and June +
Hide and Seek ++
High Art +++
I can't think straight +++
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Imagine Me and You +++
Intentions +
It's in the Water +
Itty Bitty Titty Committee +
Jack and Diane ++
Julie Johnson +
Kate's Addiction ++
Kiss Me +++
Late Bloomers ++
Lianna ++
Looking for Cheyenne ++
Losing Chase ++
Lost and Delirious ++
Love and Suicide ++
Loving Annabelle +++
Maggie and Annie +
Making Maya +
My Summer of Love ++
Nina's Heavenly Delights ++(+)
November Moon +++
Our House +++
Portrait of a Marriage parts I and II ++++
Producing Adults +++
Puccini for Beginners +++
Red is the Color of +
Rome & Juliet ++
Room in Rome +++
Round Trip ++
Saving Face +++
Sea Purple +++
She likes girls 1 +
She Likes Girls 2 ++
She likes girls 3 ++
She Likes girls 4 +++
Shelter Me ++
Show me Love ++
Slice of Life ++
Sonja +++
Spider Lilies ++
Steam ++
The Baby Formula
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love ++++
The Investigator ++++
The Kids Are All Right
The Kiss +(+)
The opposite of Sex ++
The Purple Sea +++
The Secret ++
The World Unseen +++
Therese and Isabelle
Treading Water ++
Unveiled +++
What Makes a Family +++
When Kiran met Karen ++
When Night is Falling +++
Who's Cooking ++
Wild Side ++

Journey to 5

Here is a quick history to our conception of 5.
6 years of IUI's (some fresh, mostly frozen) that included clomid, trigger shots, ultrasounds, laparoscopy to rule anything out, 2 Hysterosalpingograms - diagnoses : unexplained infertility. 1 miscarriage not pregnant long enough to confirm with doctors.
Continued trying with clomid. Did the clomid challenge.
Finally....pregnant.
Terrible morning sickness. Tired. Sore boobs.
8 weeks started spotting brown blood.
beta confirmed pregnancy and that numbers were going up.
11 1/2 weeks, lost all signs of pregnancy. ultrasound confirmed miscarriage.
D&C
2 more IUI's. 2nd with a new doctor who took me off of clomid to try a fresh cycle. told me I'd missed ovulation. chances were crap.
Jumped on a plane to Australia. pregnant. resulted in my oldest daughter Sydney. (yes, Australia was her name sake)
Vaginal birth at 38 weeks, weighing 7lbs 12oz.

Wanted same donor siblings.
Tried a few IUI's with same doctor.
Finally moved on to infertility specialists as we were down to our last 2 samples.
Did one injectable cycle.
Recommendation -
IVF
18 eggs retrieved
14 fertilized
11 embryos
2 3-day blasts transferred both B grade
5 made it to 5-day blast and were frozen
Home pregnancy test confirmed positive at 3dpt
day 14 beta 867
Twins confirmed at 7 weeks.
Boys confirmed at 14 weeks.
Vaginal birth at 37 1/2 weeks
baby A Spencer weighed 7lbs
baby B Cameron weighed 6lbs 9 oz

FET
Decided to thaw 5 and take the best.
4 made it through thaw.
Doctors recommended 3 to transfer.
We cautioned against twins and agreed on 2 grade B's.
Home pregnancy test confirmed positive at 5dpt
day 14 beta 584
Twins confirmed at 7 weeks.
Boys confirmed at 14 weeks.
Vaginal birth at 37 weeks
baby A Nathan weighed 6 lbs
baby B Ryan weighed 7lbs 9 oz

Friday, November 12, 2010

This Moment

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