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a sweet pea
Our baby is 6 weeks old today!  He/She is about a quarter of an inch long, and the size of a sweet pea (or lentil, or bb pellet depending on what website you are checking out).   It (seems so impersonal, but easier than typing out he/she every time) has tripled or quadrupled […]

6 weeks

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As many of you may have noticed (stop hitting reply all!), there has been an email argument about which team our child will root for (Kentucky or Louisville).  Let’s just go ahead and get it out in the open. Even though we live in Lexington, without a doubt there will be another Louisville fan in […]

U of L

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clovis
Sooooo my Dad and Uncle decided to look back through generations of Coe names to “help” us find a family name in case we have a boy.  My Dad came up with Throckmorton…but wait!  Throckmorton is related to kings! and vikings! and all sorts of royalty!  THANKS Dad.    And then Uncle […]

Clovis Throckmorton

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So, as soon as we found out we were pregnant, I had to hatch a plan to tell my family.  I didn’t want to just call, so we waited until the next weekend to go in town and visit.  Joey was my first victim… he was the only one home […]

Telling my family

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SO,  the shock of being pregnant after having my first emergency surgery wore off after about half a day and the excitement and happiness started to set in.   Keep in mind, I knew I could be pregnant this month, I just was kind of hoping to start over with a […]

Ralphie

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When we first found out
PREGNANT!!!! Ahhhhhh, so excited, yet so scared at the same time!! My boobs hurt so I decided to take a pregnancy test early Sunday morning, and I saw TWO lines!!  It is very early on (only 9 days past ovulation) so the lines were faint, but definitely there.  Just to […]

ohmygod.ohmygod.ohmygod.

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All of this waiting SUCKS.  On the bright side, we are now termite free.  Next step is getting  a baby in my belly!   GET IN MY BELLY!  (Austin Powers anyone?) I have to be honest, all of this not drinking during social occasions and taking prenatals etc is getting really obnoxious when […]

Waiting….

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UGGGGGGGGGGGG  We have f’n TERMITES.  Seriously.  What bad timing.  It aggravates me to no end.  We have spent a year detoxifying our house and lives, AND NOW we get to have a ridiculous amount of pesticides sprayed in the walls and foundation of our home.  Fucking fantastic.   So, after freaking […]

Termites

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Well, as I’m sure you might have guessed, all of the tests were negative.  SO, this is a new month  *sigh*.   At least all of the jitters of the first month of trying are out of the way.   Of course, I’ll update along the way…. wish us luck!

Another Month

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Negative pee test     It’s still really early to test (it’s only 10 days past ovulation and most don’t get a positive until 13 days), so I suppose there’s still a chance.  However, body signs (I’ll spare you the details) are also pointing to no, and seem to be gearing up […]

This Morning

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So the title of this post kind of makes it sound like I’m a chicken, right?  Before I got in the world of embryology, I had no idea that human embryos actually hatch out of their shells too.  First things first though, yesterday my (possible) morula should have expanded out […]

Blastocyst & Hatching

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An embryo on day three should have 8 cells.  Ideally, each day we want our embryo to double in cell number.  We also want our embryo’s cells to be of equal size and have no fragmentation.   The better organized an embryo is, the higher likelihood of producing a lasting pregnancy.  Imagine […]

3 days old

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If I’m pregnant, here’s what our embryo looks like today: Our embryo should have 4 cells today (called blastomeres).   Each of these cells contain both mine and Will’s DNA combined.  In fact, right now the unique genetic make up of our future baby is already determined.  These cells are totipotent, which means […]

Today

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  Soooo this is the week that we “try to make a baby.”  Ovulation is a GO, I repeat, Ovulation is a GO.  Holy Moly!  I can’t believe it.    After lots of practice, hopefully we can get it right (HA- sorry, Dad!).   Because of working in a fertility clinic, I definitely know […]

This Week

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WOW.  So this is the month.  The month we begin “trying.”   We’ve been planning so long that I just can’t believe it’s here.   As luck would have it, I got super dehydrated and sick from being in the sun too much this past Sunday, which was the beginning of THE […]

June 1st, 2011

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Wow, I can’t believe we’ve been married 3 years already! And dating for 9!  It was my turn to plan our anniversary trip this year.  We went to West Baden Springs Hotel in Indiana and had a wonderful and relaxing time.  We spent our evenings sitting on our balcony overlooking […]

3rd Wedding Anniversary

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