I cannot believe our sweet Ivy Jean is three months old today. She is our littlest love and greatest gift. If you are a newer reader, you can find more about our infertility journey and her birth story on my about page. Part of the reader survey revealed you all would like more personal/mom/lifestyle posts, so I thought I would share a little 3 month update on life with our sweet girl. Keep in mind, she arrived 6 weeks early.…
Neutral Nursery Reveal
December 30, 2016I am so excited to share our neutral nursery reveal! Russ and I worked on this space over the span of my whole pregnancy, and it has really become one of our favorite places in the house. Since we didn’t find out the gender of our sweet Ivy Jean, we wanted to keep things neutral. We went with mainly greys, whites, and creams. It was so fun to put it together and dream of our life with baby. I added…
Ivy Jean’s Birth Story
November 30, 2016As I type, I’m sitting in the NICU right next to Ivy Jean while she sleeps and stays warm in her isolette bed. Our precious girl is two weeks old today, and not a day has passed that we are not grateful for her life and humbled to be her parents. I wanted to thank you all for your support and share a little bit about her birth story. The day started out like any other. Russ and I woke up…
Infertility
January 2, 2016Infertility. One word, yet somehow a mouthful. When Russ and I started trying to have a baby almost two years ago, I never imagined that word and my name would be in the same sentence. I had a hard time even saying it at first. Life is funny like that. Now after one surgery, six months of menopause inducing shots, clomid, folistem daily shots, a sharps container in my house, and too many blood tests to count, we are facing…