Progesterone wrap-up

26Mar12

Its an amazing day when you finally see that this… …has turned into this… and these… Today we celebrated our ceremonial last shot!  Yahoo!  Not quite per doctor’s orders, but we’ll only be doing the suppositories 2x a day for the next two weeks.  That means we’re getting close! Here is a little chart I [...]

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Surviving and Thriving on Mother’s Day

08May11

A year ago was the first Mother’s Day I had that I was aware of what I wasn’t.  I remember thinking that I would probably cry when they had all the mother’s stand up for recognition at the end of mass.  I did cry, but I cried throughout the rest of the mass too for [...]

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My battle with “natural”

06Mar11

I may be a secret hippie at heart. I use many ‘natural’ products. I’ve made my own laundry soap, shampoo and conditioner.  I don’t shave my legs nearly as much as is appropriate – and not at all in winter (does it still count as winter?).  I use reusable feminine products.  I avoid buying unnecessarily packaged [...]

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Free BC?

01Nov10

This article makes me sad, but I guess its not really that different from the uphill battle we already face.  It just makes it feel a little steeper. I recently went grocery shopping with my friend at Whole Foods to get chicken and veggies that were sold without hormones and pesticides.  All while she’s ingesting [...]

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We’re getting smarter…in all ways!

28Jun10

My brother-in-law sent my husband and I an interesting article published in the New York Times from this past weekend, entitled Educated Women Opting for Motherhood.  Did anyone else happen to see it? The crux of the article is that in general, the percentages of women not having children are increasing across racial and ethnic [...]

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“Its not that we didn’t try”

16Jun10

I saw this video about 5 years ago when it first came out on PBS and its still resonating in my ears… Its a special about this amazing female professor who is working on a cure for cancer using nanoshells.  A cure for cancer, people. She was interviewed by PBS in order to not only [...]

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Thank you, Phoenix!

08Oct09

I saw this video this morning at one of my favorite blogs and I wanted to re-post it here since a line in it really connected with everything I have been writing about for the past couple of days! In my last few posts, I was really just trying to focus on the concept of [...]

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Donating your body to science

20Aug09

Being the true engineering nerds we are, my husband and I agreed to donate our bodies to science! Now! Ha, we’re actually participating in a study on natural family planning through Marquette University to determine the effectiveness of two internet based methods.  It’s pretty awesome.  No more paper charts for me!  Its a randomized stud.  [...]

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More than a “Friendship Certificate!”

11Aug09

Before I write the series on marriage, I first wanted to shed light on the current popular perspective on marriage by doing a little movie analysis in light of what I learned this past weekend on a movie that you may remember from a while back, “He’s Just Not That Into You”. When I saw [...]

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“Nothing worth doing is easy”

28Jul09

As NFP teaching volunteers in the Diocese, this past week we were invited to a celebration mass on Sunday night at the Co-Cathedral with the Cardinal (twice in 2 weeks!).  It was a simple celebration consisting of mass and a potluck dinner afterward with other NFP volunteers in order to commemorate the last day of [...]

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