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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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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

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.

I mean seriously, this month SUCKS.  Termites and then an emergency appendectomy?  WTF?!?   So, on Will’s 31st birthday my appendix decided to revolt against me and totally ruin his birthday dinner I had organized.  Grrrr! It started out with a lot of pain and throwing up.  Keeping in mind we’re […]

My appendix crashed Will’s Birthday

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….

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

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

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

So, for my 30th birthday my AWESOME husband threw me a surprise party.  All my family and friends were there (except my mom, who had to fly out with my grandma).    I am so so lucky to have such a thoughtful man in my life (and an awesome friend, Julie, who […]

My 30th Surprise Party

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

So today, when the embryo is 4 days old it should be at a stage called Morula.  This is basically where the cells of the embryo compact into a tight blob. 

Morula

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

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

  Fertilization! That’s what I hope is happening right now… Only a couple hundred sperm (out of tens of millions of them) will make it to the egg, and the lone Super Sperm will hopefully succeed in fertilizing it.  If the egg fertilizes, over the next day or so, the sperm’s nucleus will merge […]

What I hope is happening right now…

  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

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

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

“It is essential to relate what is strategically desirable to what is tactically possible with the forces at your disposal. To this end it is necessary to decide the development of operations before the initial blow is delivered.” – Bernard Montgomery Our Campaign Operations began in 2011. The goal, healthy […]

He said… “Operation Conception”