Chris (age 26) wife to Matt (age 26) and lucky mommy to:

Cade Morgan (2/14/04) - our beautiful little surprise baby!
angel (8/25/04) - our second pregnancy, we were fortunate to get pregnant on our first cycle TTC, but sadly miscarried at 4w5d.
Parker Reese (7/30/05) - we got pregnant again on our 3rd attempt after the m/c with our little sweetie!
Macy Elizabeth (11/12/06) - pregnant with our very much hoped-for little princess on the 4th cycle trying!
Dawson Garrett (12/12/07) - just when we thought we were done - surprise! What a sweet one it was! Dawson has Down syndrome and has been the most amazing gift to our family! :)


May 2008 - committed to the adoption of Emerson Andjeline, a beautiful baby girl with DS born 8/10/07 in Serbia! She has a complete heart AV Canal disorder and is in desperate need of life-saving surgery. We are thrilled to have this opportunity to save this little girl and welcome her into our family. Our home study is complete as of 7/3 and our dossier is ready, just waiting on our INS approval! Hoping to travel in September/October!
7/17/08: received INS approval already!
7/19/08: DOSSIER SUBMITTED!!!

- See my girl attempt, log of symptoms and pics of my BFPs with Macy - click here!

- See my log of symptoms each DPO and pics of my BFPs with Parker - click here!

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Cycle 10/25/2008

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Cycle 09/24/2008

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Cycle 08/24/2008

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Cycle 07/23/2008

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Cycle 06/22/2008

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Cycle 05/25/2008
Preventing
CD1 is also the day we committed to the adoption of our little girl. How fitting! :)

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Cycle 04/22/2008
Preventing; anovulatory
All done having babies - now dreaming of adoption!! :)

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Cycle 04/05/2008
Not trying/not preventing; breastfeeding

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Cycle 02/14/2008
Not trying/not preventing; breastfeeding
Anovulatory

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Cycle 01/15/2008
Not trying/not preventing, breastfeeding
Most likely anovulatory

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Cycle 12/12/2007

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Cycle 03/22/2007
TTA/Using protection ... or supposed to be ... oops!! :)
Baby #4 due 12/31/07!


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Cycle 02/21/2007
Not preventing
Calcium/Mag, Vitex 180mg, Cranberry 1000mg, Probiotics, Baby Aspirin ... pH 4.5 throughout.

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Cycle 01/31/2007
TTA ... or not?
Surprise early O, so didn't TTA at all LOL! ... *Phew* BFN!

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Cycle 01/19/2007
TTA

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Cycle 12/28/2006
TTA (Using protection from CDs 10 through 22)

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Cycle 11/12/2006
Not TTC, just keeping track of things! Waiting for first PPAF while exclusively b/f.

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Cycle 02/03/2006
Cycle #4 TTC #3
Last cycle TTC before taking a break until August. Stopping all herbs/supplements except for prenatals, cal/mag and trying FertiliTea (has a little vitex and green tea) for me, vitamins for DH. Used Pre-Seed a few times, Instead Cups everytime. Latest O yet, which turned out to be a blessing as DH's grandma passed away and he was out of town for 3 days - he got back the night before O!
BFN... or not!! I was so sure AF was coming but the spotting stopped and I got a BFP on 13 DPO!
It's our little girl!!! Expecting Macy Elizabeth!

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Cycle 01/04/2006
Cycle #3 TTC #3! * Vaginal Temps *
Giving up all the girl methods and just going for it - we'll take what we get! ^_^ I'm too scared to go completely au natural this cycle, but I am cutting back on the vitex and trying out royal jelly. Also temping vaginally and using a CBEFM for the first time. Also cutting back on b/f to try to get my hormones more "normal".
My latest O so far, and so much BD we're both out of our minds with exhaustion!! O_O Beautiful looking temp pattern, but alas...
BFN

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Cycle 12/07/2005
Cycle #2 TTC our little girl! Trying a few different things this month, like soy (CD 2-6) instead of vitex, fish oil, less cranberry ... Very early O thanks to soy. Had hardly any warning so only got a "Good" rating on BD. Weird, long LP with lots of spotting. Me + Soy = Bad!
BFN

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Cycle 11/08/2005
Cycle #1 TTC our little girl! Another good normal O, hopefully a nice big eggie after 4 days of strong O pains and a huge temp dip on O day! No fertile CM at all except for EWCM on O day but no BD that day ............. BFN, but longest LP since I had Parker!! ^_^

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Cycle 10/11/2005
Started Vitex this cycle, 1200mg from AF to O. Hoping to get my LP back to a normal length. ... Vitex moved my O date back to normal! +OPK on CD 15! Using progesterone cream and taking Vit B6 from 1 DPO onward ... Something worked! LP did much better this cycle!

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Cycle 09/24/2005
Yay, I O'd! But look at that luteal phase - way too short. Much thanks to the breastfeeding gods (*grumble*)

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Cycle 09/09/2005
First PPAF. One messed up anovulatory cycle.

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Cycle 07/31/2005
Prior to first PPAF, looks like I may have O'd, but LP is nonexistant.

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Cycle 10/28/2004
It's my BFP chart with Parker!!

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Cycle 09/25/2004
First time ever charting! BFN.

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Cycle 08/25/2004

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Cycle 07/22/2004

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Cycle 05/22/2003

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