It’s Saturday. Not since October 5th have I sighed in such a way. Each Saturday brought with it a smarting…
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reproductive story
Statistically Speaking… Well, What Do You Think About These Numbers?
This time a year ago, I was pregnant and didn’t know it yet. A year later, I am neither a…
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The Grand Canyon
March 2011 was the first time I visited the Grand Canyon. How different life was back then. Only six weeks…
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Mitochondrial DNA
When [my children] are themselves, with faces and bodies that come to them through generations of people who have done…
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Two People
Two Genetic Counsellors Thursday, we heard back from a genetic counsellor, J, at Reprogenetics, the lab that would perform the…
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Sink or Swim
In the early days of my short pregnancy, I started thinking about making a fun video or photo sequence to…
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Are You There, God? It’s Me, Lauren…
Oh. My. God. Aunt Flo made her long-awaited appearance last night! Eighty-two days (that’s 11 weeks and 5 days) after…
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Ghosts
On Saturday, DH and I piled into the car with the dog for a spontaneous overnight camping trip to Culp…
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