http://creatingmotherhood.com Mon, 21 May 2012 17:51:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/well-so-much-for-that/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/well-so-much-for-that/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 17:51:50 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8494 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/well-so-much-for-that/feed/ 84 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/its-all-just-math/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/its-all-just-math/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 14:30:42 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8489 You would have been proud of me: I spent most of the weekend in a ridiculous hopeful suspension of animation. I pined away at fantasies and day dreamed about what a great January I could have. Only in little quiet moments, when I found myself thinking about today, did my bottom lip begin to tremble. [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/21/its-all-just-math/feed/ 13 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/and-up-we-go/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/and-up-we-go/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 17:53:28 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8463 Clinic called me to say, “congrats! It’s rising perfectly!” Beta is 54. I told them I would have liked to have seen triple digits. Clinic said, “we like a rise. This is a rise.” AKA: shut up already. I go back for repeat on Monday. Obviously there is a lovely chart to share that shows [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/and-up-we-go/feed/ 57 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/more-clock-watching/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/more-clock-watching/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 15:47:16 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8460 The blood draw woman fussed at me this morning. “Why the sad face, sweetie?” I explained that I was just going through the motions. She asked what my first beta was and after I whispered it out she grabbed my hands and demanded I look at her face, “THAT is a positive.” She told me [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/18/more-clock-watching/feed/ 13 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/17/and-hope-soars-at-your-face/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/17/and-hope-soars-at-your-face/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:38:36 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8453 Well clearly after my MOTHER opted to express her feelings in the comment section of the last post the little layer of tin foil that I had been wrapping around and around my heart began to crumble. Hope is no match to preservation tactics. Hope will always win out. The thing is I have total [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/17/and-hope-soars-at-your-face/feed/ 55 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/time-to-exit-the-ride/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/time-to-exit-the-ride/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:50:36 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8450 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/time-to-exit-the-ride/feed/ 74 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/clock-watching/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/clock-watching/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:49:56 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8443 There is a scene in one of my favorite movies, The Thing Called Love, where River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis stand on top of a building in Nashville and yell out into the city, “Look out Music City cause here I am and I ain’t never leaving!” It’s one of those great moments where the [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/15/clock-watching/feed/ 13 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/whats-that-you-say-more/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/whats-that-you-say-more/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 01:02:09 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8439 Fine. FINE. Here are the three tests from today. No arrows provided. Yadda, yadda…]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/whats-that-you-say-more/feed/ 41 http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/ticket-to-the-madness/ http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/ticket-to-the-madness/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 11:54:56 +0000 Dresden http://creatingmotherhood.com/?p=8433 Ok so fine. YES I have been testing. Often. And getting sad because things have been alabaster. Stark white. Which meant my hope sails were swiftly sinking and I was bracing myself for the super sized sad. I got a nice test with my W pregnancy at 8dp3dt (eight days passed a three day transfer, [...]]]> http://creatingmotherhood.com/2012/05/14/ticket-to-the-madness/feed/ 39