11 Months!

P is now 11 months old! "They" say time flies with kids...and it's so true. Last year at this time I was pregnant and in the hospital with kidney stones...I still can remember all too well that- throw me to the ground, let me vomit all over you from the pain-PAIN. Anyway, just wanted to say a bit of what my little miss is doing these days.


She's still cruising/running along furniture and has all the muscles to walk but just doesn't have the confidence yet. She's taken 3-4 steps many many times but then sits down and crawls. Surprisingly, I am very OK with her not walking yet.


She's eating so much better these days. She's also semi-mastered the sippy cup but still doesn't like drinking anything out of an open cup unless she's in the bathtub.


She's into pretend play and loves to mimic me. She "feeds" her baby milk and pours "tea" from her tea pot to her tea cups. It's just so cute! She also LOVES to read.

Talking on the phone:

She's also trying to talk. She says mama, dada, dog, duck, night-night, has said yes twice, and my favorite: NO-NO. I swear she didn't learn it from us telling her no, but from us telling Indy no a billion times a day. Poor dog.

We've also started story time at our local library. She absolutely LOVES it. She could sit there for hours reading and listening to stories...she's just like her daddy!

ETA: I forgot to mention that she has also learned some of her body parts! She can point to her nose and ears and pats her belly when asked where they are. She'll even point to our noses if asked, "Where is mama's/dada's nose?" She's growing up too fast!!

A word on infertilty

People have asked if/when we are going to try for another baby. It's hard to answer them. I had always made it a point to NEVER ask someone if they planned on having children or if they wanted more. What's funny is that I actually don't mind them asking me now. I sure used to though. I would almost be in tears over it. I knew how it felt to desperately want children and I didn't want others feeling like that if they too couldn't have kids. The journey for Skittle was painful, heartbreaking, joyful, and yet, in the end, wonderful-but with that said, I'm not too anxious to do it again. My husband thinks that we should "knock some more out" (his words, NOT mine) and I then remind him of the shots, the what ifs/miscarriages, morning sickness, kidney stones, and a separated pelvis. He then says, "and wasn't she worth it?"

When we decide that we want to jump on the baby making roller coaster again, it will be with an infertility specialist once more. We'll be attempting FET's (Frozen Embryo Transfers) with our remaining 12 embryos. There are MANY questions without answers right now as to how we're going to do it but from the medical prospective, it's much easier then the rounds of IVF I previously went through. (I'll explain the FETs in more detail later.)

I'm not going to assume that the FET will work on the first try. I'm not going to assume that if it does, that it will lead to a take home healthy baby (or two).

Infertility sucks. The things women (and men) go through to have a child is incredible. Does it make the bond between a mother and her baby just that much stronger? Life is a gift. A God given beautiful gift...whether through IVF or otherwise. Never take for granted your ability to have children. I know I won't.

A word on cloth

I'm still doing cloth diapers with Skittle. Although, I don't when we are traveling. I just don't care to do laundry on vacation (if I can help it) and cloth does require some laundering. Overall, cloth is pretty easy-at least the kind I've bought (Bumgenius, all-in-ones, which are just like disposables). Now, don't get me wrong. I'm NOT opposed to disposables at all. They have their place. I just prefer cloth. There are two things I DON'T like about cloth though.

1. The bulk. That gets me every time. With disposables, Skittle wears 9 month clothes. With cloth-well, it's anywhere from 12 months to 18 months. Jeans? Forget it. The poor kid can't breath if I put her in cloth with jeans.

2. Poo diapers. Before we introduced solid foods, poo diapers just got tossed in with her other pee diapers and there was no fuss. (and never any staining!!!) Now? Well, it's unpleasant. Esp. without a utility sink in the laundry room. The poo has to be jiggled off in the toilet (that is IF it's jiggle-able) and well, it STINKS-literally.

Cloth certainly has its advantages, however. I never find myself out of diapers and having to run to the store at an inconvenient time. I don't mind doing the extra laundry and when we're hanging out in the house, Skittle just wears a cloth diaper and a t-shirt...and she looks mighty cute if I do say so myself. Cloth wipes are always great (Dh actually prefers those over disposables) and ubber easy.

If any of you want to try cloth or are just interested in it but don't know where to start, email me and I'll help you out. It's easier than you think!