Praying for a Little One

Today was a very special milestone for me. My first stranger noticed my belly and felt confident enough to say something to me! I told Shaun...

Hey Girls!! I'm back! I finally have a new healthy (lol) home computer so expect much more blogging from me in the near future. I feel l...

I have missed blogging...I'm having major withdrawals. I need a computer!! My work computer won't let me post! I can post from my...

I'm still at the dr's office, but we just had our ultrasound. Baby is kicked back...healthy and happy. Looks like it is a bladder ...

Please pray for us. I had some sharp pains over the weekend in my cervix, and my nurse doesn't like the sound of the pain. We are goin...

It was such a wonderful feeling to get in the car on our way to our 2nd OB appointment. We didn't get to make it to the second appointme...

My 25th birthday was yesterday, and I got the most wonderful present...we heard sweet pea's heartbeat!! I decided to get the Doppler ou...

Hey Girls! I'm so happy to finally be able to post a few updates on what has been going on with us the past two weeks. My work compute...

Not the best photo of me, but you can definitely see the bump in this picture. Wow!! 9 weeks :). Look how cute our baby looks now on the si...

This was New Year's Eve...If you look closely, you can see a little bump. I think the progesterone supps are making me show earlier, bu...

December 31, 2007- December was our first month trying again after our loss. Right around Christmas, I found out that my good friend on her...

We had our first regular ob appt today. It was so wonderful to feel like a normal pregnant patient. I was of course still nervous at this ...

Yesterday was one of the best days of our lives. Wednesday morning, I woke up around 3:30-4 AM, and I couldn't go back to sleep. I was a...

Our first ultrasound is Wednesday morning! My emotions right now range from extremely excited to pretty much terrified. Wednesday is either ...

The early pregnancy exhaustion definitely kicked in today. I've been tired for days, but this was the first day that I was struggling to...

Oh no! I scared my blogger buddies with the title of my previous post! Please forgive me girls for making you worry for nothing.

When we lost our dear sweet Baby Faith, we lost more than her precious life. We lost the innocence of pregnancy. Pregnancy announcements hav...

God has answered our prayers and has blessed us with a miracle...we are pregnant!!! Thanksgiving morning, I took a digital test, and I reall...

I think I need to re-read my post from yesterday. I'm usually fine the first week of the two week wait, but once the second week starts...

I think one of the hardest parts of this journey through infertility is the unknown. Will my body respond to the medicine? Is this cycle “...

Shaun was so cute last night. He told me that he was really "looking forward to tomorrow." It just made me so happy to hear that b...

Well I'm so glad we switched to injectibles! I had an ultrasound and bloodwork yesterday and today (cd 9), and it looks like we will ha...

Well my first injection went okay. I'm still not sure if I did it right, and I was scared to death. I had Shaun record me for two reas...

Did I mention how much I hate digital tests? Seeing "Not Pregnant" on a test is just too final and sad. Why can't they just ...

It is hard to even explain how I'm feeling right now. I'm just plain tired...emotionally and physically. I'm sure the progeste...

I'm trying to stay extremely busy, but this two week wait is dragging! We did have a fun weekend including a pumpkin carving party on F...

IUI #3 went very smoothly! We had 139 million spermies! We enjoyed our traditions of going to breakfast while the sperm gets washed, prayi...

Well I think God is trying to show me who is in control, and it is definitely not me or my doctor. This morning I went back for an ultrasou...

I'm so glad y'all had fun testing your husband's ttc knowledge! I really enjoyed hearing back from all of you about all of the f...

Shaun and I were talking the other day about how much he knows about the female reproductive system so I decided to give him an impromptu qu...

God has blessed me with such an amazing support system through this time in my life. Early this spring, I was sharing in a small group thro...

Saturday Evening Court: (sees that spot has arrived) YES!! Shaun: What? Implantation bleeding?? Court: (shocked that he knows what that is...

I have let infertility consume my life. It is all I think about and pretty much all I talk about these days,and I am sick of it. I have let...

12 dpo this morning, and I woke up to a stark white negative-as-negative-can-get pregnancy test. I know what y'all are going to say tha...

Dear Baby Faith, The moment that I saw two lines on a pregnancy test my life changed forever because on that day I found out that I was your...

IUI #2 went very well this morning! (I'm not saying "peace" in the pic by the way..I'm saying yay for IUI #2) After delive...

YAY!! U/S was great yesterday! We have a follicle! 21 mm on my right side on cycle day 11! So Dr. Shaun gave me my hcg shot last night. L...

Last night was my last double dosage of femara for this cycle. I did have more side effects than I typically experience on 2.5mg...mainly j...

Today Shaun and I celebrated 9 years together. We started dating on 9-9-99 so it was obviously very easy for us to remember that date! Sha...

Well at least for now. I am so relieved! I hate to blame my emotions and out-of-control frustration/anger/hormonal rages on meds, but let...

Well obviously my morning didn't get off to a great start. The test was negative. Today was a sad day, but I'm trying to remember ...

10 dpo today. I'm trying to hold off until Thursday (13 dpo) to test. I would list all of the pregnancy symptoms that I'm having r...

a cyst?? I keep having this nagging pain around my left ovary for the past two days. I didn't have an ultrasound at my appt so I have no...

I cried all the way home from work today. I blame it on the wide range of emotions I felt all day and of course--progesterone. Anxious- Wo...

Two week waits are always the hardest for me. But for some reason, I don't feel like this 2ww is going to be as hard...probably because ...

A positive opk like a normal girl??!! I wish I could type more, but I'm going to be kinda busy tonight.

Since this is the surgery cycle, we are just trying this month the old-fashioned way. Yep this month is all about getting back to the basic...

"Tomorrow is a new day"--it was my Mom's favorite thing to say to me when I was growing up...But it was hard to still apply th...

First of all... I'm sorry if this post doesn't make much sense because I'm on some major pain meds right now..lol! The surgery ...

Bowel prep=not fun Now I'm starting to get nervous. What are we going to find out tomorrow? What if he finds nothing? My biggest fear...

scheduled for Monday morning!! I'm so relieved that the wait is over and that hopefully we will get some answers soon.

I'm so excited that so many of you were inspired by my Baby Therapy post. I just know that this was God given. The idea never left my ...

Today was my first day as a volunteer in the newborn nursery at a local hospital, and it was amazing. This all started at the beginning of t...

I just don't feel right....I don't know what it is?? I feel very anxious like something bad is going to happen. Maybe it is just th...

Shaun and Courtney are watching a reality show on a relaxing Friday night. Announcer: "They lived in a small town with a population of...

Monday--came down with an awful cold Monday evening--girl ran into the back of my car, and the stinkin girl left the scene of the accident (...

I sometimes like to think that I'm "over it"..the whole pregnancy thing, but who am I kidding. I went to a chick flick on Fri...

I heart wine.

While celebrating my TAB cycle with Shaun in B&N with a delicious Cafe Mocha from Starbucks in hand, I wandered (of course) into the wom...

My ultrasound today confirmed that this cycle is a no-try cycle. My follicles were still itty bitty, and my lining was so thin the ultrasoun...

Top Five Best Google Search Engine Queries to this blog: 5. "things to do during 2ww" and "how to pamper yourself 2ww"--...

Well it looks like my uterus has finally had enough! Fifth cycle of meds and my lining is super thin (4 mm). My follicles also did not coope...

Well girls.....it has been an interesting week. I feel like I need to write 10 posts to catch all of you up on what is going on right now, ...

unfortunately ended with a big fat no. I kept getting faint positives on my fav brand of pregnancy tests (first response) even 14 days after...

In this infertility journey, I have good days (ex: finding out I have a big follicle), normal days (ex: constantly thinking about ttc), ba...

So the plan for this morning was to take a test to make sure that the hcg from my trigger was out of my system. I'm 9dpIUI today and 11...

7dpIUI (seven days past IUI)...today would most likely be the day that if God decided to give us a baby this month that our sweet little one...

35!!!! YAY!! I felt ovulation pain on my right side after my IUI even though my big follicle was on my left so I guess it is possible that...

I'm having a baby shower at my house...what was she thinking you might ask? Well honestly when I agreed to do the shower with my friends...

The moment I step into our shower and close the door, a non-stop flow of ttc thoughts begins, and it doesn't stop until I exit the showe...

Oh how I hate the two week wait. It is by far the worst part of ttc for me and probably for most of you so I have come up with a list of 20...