Appointment No. 3: The Sanity Test for Parenthood

July 8, 2021.Reading time 8 minutes.

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The next step on our journey through IUI: getting cleared for the process by a psychologist.

The Phone Call That Kicked Us Into Gear

June 7, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

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After a several month hiatus from our fertility process, our plans and consequently our lives changed with a call from the fertility center.

Appointment No. 1: The Necessity of Knowing What You’re Getting Into

October 28, 2020.Reading time 18 minutes.

It’s finally here. After months of anticipation, the day of our initial consultation appointment is here. After a less-than-restful night’s sleep, I wake up well before my alarm, work-out, and shower. Whether I’m doing asymmetrical lunges, feeding the dogs, shampooing my hair, or powering up my work computer, all I can seem to think about […]

And So it Begins

October 26, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Welcome to Mom2, a chronicle of the twists, turns, bumps, and hills that my wife and I are encountering on our journey to build our family. This facet of my life, I felt, deserved its own stand-alone home on this site for a multitude of reasons. The most prominent one being that although growing, the […]