We are now 3 weeks away from the delivery date for my wife, who went through Invitro/IVF nearly 9 months ago

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We are in our last month of pregnancy after going through the invitro / IVF process. Our little boy is due on November 25th, 2008

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Well, so much for my optimism.  More pain today, and we aren’t sure why.  Maybe some fat from a pork chop?  Or from a Pumpkin Spice Decaf Latte (which is my guess)?  Or something else?
She woke up last night with pain and had some more today.  It’s baffling.
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I can’t say we know this definitevely yet, but it seems like some bad food choices are in fact what led to all the discomfort my wife was experiencing.  She has now been eating well (or blandly, to put it a different way) and all seems good.
She is now able to get a relatively full [...]

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That’s what I’m hoping for tonight for my wife.  I think she is going on 10 days without a single good night of sleep.  The Gall Bladder / Ulcer / Abdominal pain continues to wake her up for extended periods of time at around 2:30 AM.   She fell asleep around 8:30 tonight, and I’m [...]

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So, it’s been a continuation of the abdominal pain for my wife.  She has been diagnosed as possibly having a Gall Bladder issue or an Ulcer.
We had a bit of a hiccup this weekend from a diet standpoint (she ate some food that she probably shouldn’t have), and has been in recovery mode since then.  [...]

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It apparently distributes pain when it isn’t working right, too.
My wife and I spent the night in L&D on Wednesday/Thursday.  She finally waived the white flag to the pain that she was feeling on the right hand side of her stomach.  She had been in previously for the same problem, and they prescribed her some [...]

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So…it’s been a few months since I last wrote, but more for good reasons than anything else - things have been going well on both the home front and the baby front.
We now know that we are having a boy, although the cirstumstances by which we know that are a bit shady - My wife [...]

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So, I must first apologize (I think this is my 2nd one now) - I have completely let “life” get in the way of this blog. The new job has taken up quite a bit more time than I expected.  Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve been in Atlanta, then Chicago from Tuesday->Saturday, then Las [...]

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So I must first apologize for being away for so long (and thanks to you who emailed and posted comments checking in!). As if going through this whole process isn’t stressful enough, I have just started a new job after being in essentially the same area for around the last 10 years. I [...]

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