Just wondering if the fertility treatment you used was IUI. We went through the same and also IVF but were unsuccessful. Thanks.
Yes, we used IUI, which is very different from IVF. IUI is intrauterine insemination where you take meds, are monitored via ultrasound and then your husband’s contribution is placed via catheter. There are no eggs “removed” or “put back” as with IVF. So, we were truly unaware that there were 7 possible babies in there on the day that our procedure was done…or I can assure you, we would not have gone through with it!! (We were told that there were 3 with a possibility of 4 which was, by my doctor, considered excellent to proceed.)
I heard you have a book coming out and how in the world did you have time to write a book?
We started writing after so many people said “you should write a book”! They had seen us go from the family of four and then watched me struggle through the pregnancy with the six, saw me lose my job due to bed rest and Jon lose his job due to the pregnancy. They saw how unbearable that first year was for us in many many ways (physically, financially, mentally and emotionally) as we literally scraped by and had no choice but to give God the control (which is a daily event—one that we are still trying to do daily). So many amazing things took place that I didn’t want to forget those times! I wanted to have them written down for us and for our children. Now, life is so different in almost all of those ways…and it is in part due to remembering our past that makes the present so much more meaningful.
When did you decide to cut your hair short?
When I met Jon, my hair was long. It got a tad shorter after I had the girls and then went even shorter once I had the six. I have extremely thick hair so when it was long (back in the day) it gave me headaches because of the weight…unlike Jon (ohh honey, I am so sorry, but I just have to say this) I am told by my hairdresser that I will never go bald!! Yeah!!
