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Sleep Sweet Sweetheart
Avleigh has always struggled with her sleep from the time she was born. Imagine those first few week that you bring home your newborn… we’ve had this for the past 4 years! We’ve done all we can while keeping her safe to try to promote good sleep hygiene. We recently repeated a sleep study that…
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As Our World Turns
Let me just start off by saying my Avleigh girl absolutely LOVES school! She comes home happy, she’s sleeping somewhat decent and we are enjoying more of our time together as a family. All of this because our girl is so smart and knows that she’s being included and living a typical life. Looking from…
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The Waves of Losing a Child
No parent should ever experience the loss of a child. It is just not in the natural rhythm of our being. We are mentally programmed into the belief that we will raise our children, see them graduate from kindergarten, graduate from high school, get married, have children, and as you get old you will admire…
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Announcements
Most people wait until the second trimester to make any type of public announcements when they are pregnant. This is mostly a form of self protection for the unforeseen chances that the pregnancy doesn’t survive. Although we didn’t make any official announcements, we did decided to share our story on Avleigh’s Journey for those families…
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Transfer Day
Deciding to adopt an embryo is a very exciting process. Once we got to the point of preparing our cycle for the transfer is when things really got real! You hear stories of IVF journeys and how much medicine and injections it takes to prepare the body to accept the science behind this little miracle.…
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Fertility | Donor Embryo
I have really been enjoying the curiosity and inquiries that have formed with our last blog “When your Genes Don’t Fit”. First of all… No, I’m not pregnant yet! So many, including myself, didn’t know that adopting embryo was even an option. So how does this even work? The process is actually pretty quick if…
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When Your GENES Don’t Fit
When you get married, most couples start thinking about family. How many children do you want? What are your dreams for your children and family as a whole? Will you have all boys, all girls, or a mixture of both? What are your favorite baby names? What most couples don’t think about is what happens…
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Birthday Wishes
March 10, 2014 you made your arrival into this world with that beautiful face, brown eyes, and long eyelashes. Through those challenging years of working through your rare disease, you showed us kindness, laughter and faith. We had six beautiful years celebrating your life, that I will cherish in my heart forever. As those numbers…
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A Mother’s Grief
I’m the type of person that will mostly roll with the punches. Life is hard and the only way to survive is to accept the hardship, learn from it and move on. But what happens when you don’t know how to move on? What happens when the feeling of moving on brings on guilt and…
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Emptiness
I’ve been a special needs mom for the last 6 years. Six years of waking up throughout the nights, early mornings, diaper changes, feedings, vomit, moving her sweet little body from one spot to another just to keep her satisfied, constantly checking up on her to make sure she’s was ok, she was not choking,…
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Comfort
I’m about to move outside of my comfort zone and get real with everyone. This will probably be one of the hardest blogs that I ever write, up to now at least. These past few weeks have been the worst weeks of my life. As most of you know from her Facebook group, it all…
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The Journey
We’ve had many battles over the years but they always had some type of plan for treatment. Whether it was medicine, equipment or a procedure, there were ways for us to manage whatever symptoms Avleigh was experiencing to get her the quality of life we always strived to provide for her. We just want her…
Avleigh's Journey
Why fit in when you're born to stand out -Dr. Seuss
Avleigh's Journey 