http://ourstorkgotlost.com infertility + 4 rounds of artificial insemination + in-vitro fertilization FINALLY = TWIN BOYS!!!! Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:15:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing like jumping back into the blogging world with a nice, heated, gosh-I-wish-I-could-cuss-but-my-parents-put-my-blog-link-on-their-Christmas-letter conversation about the infertility world.  It was sparked by a Facebook post by one of my friend's Facebook friends (got that?).  Said friend has adorable 12 month old spontaneous triplet girls, and we met through the NICU support group that Jeff and ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2011/03/it-still-gets-to-me-and-probably-always-will/ November was fairly uneventful...lots of growing up and more *real* talking from Max and Wes.  Just when I was starting to worry, November started a massive word explosion with Wes, and I think Max is right behind him.  I'm not one (nor do I really have the time) to count how ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2011/01/november-month-in-review/ We kicked off the month of October by dropping the boys off at Jeff's parent's house and having a 24 hour date.  We stayed downtown (thanks to my sis and her many hotel points), saw a movie (the social network), went shopping (for ourselves - gasp!), and ate and drank ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/11/still-playing-catch-up/ According to the March of Dimes report on premature births, nearly 13 million babies worldwide are born prematurely each year. This means about 9.6 percent of all babies born experience a preterm birth - one in eight babies. One in eight. Half a million of these premature ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/11/blogging-for-preemies-3/ Boy, when people tell you children are going to change your life you never really know just how much life really is going to change until you're in the thick of it.  Now that Max and Wes are fully mobile and keeping us on our toes for all of their waking ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/11/playing-catch-up-2/ http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/08/ahhhhhhh-beep-beep/ Being sick is never fun.  Being sick in the summer is REALLY never fun.  Last Sunday, a mere two days after our little boy had surgery, I got "the mother of all summer colds" (that would be how my doctor matter-of-factly described it).  I started off with a sore throat, which ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/07/back-in-the-land-of-the-living/ [caption id="attachment_5027" align="aligncenter" width="345" caption="Max playing quietly in the pediatric waiting room"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5028" align="aligncenter" width="345" caption="Taking a wagon ride around the surgery center"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5030" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Coming off the anethesia in daddy's arms"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5029" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Sleepy boy proving that purple isn't just for girls"][/caption] Max's surgery (circumcision correction and penis ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/07/max-rockstar/ You know, back in the day I used to cringe when I watched my many mommy friends change poopy diapers.  They would almost always be so nonchalant about the whole thing...while I normally stood several feet away, trying not to breathe through my nose, gagging at the sight of the peanut-buttery-yet-not-really-peanut-buttery looking, ... http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/07/poop-really-isnt-that-gross/ [caption id="attachment_5013" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Max 7.4.09"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5015" align="aligncenter" width="307" caption="Max 7.4.10"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5016" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Wes 7.4.09"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5017" align="aligncenter" width="459" caption="Wes 7.4.10"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5018" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="July 4, 2009"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_5019" align="aligncenter" width="459" caption="July 2010"][/caption] Thanks to our friend, Kari, for getting some cute photos of our boys! http://ourstorkgotlost.com/2010/07/july-4th-now-and-then/