New Beginnings

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Hey look! I started a new blog! It’s come a long way from my drunken stories, amirite?

I’ve been staring at a blank page wondering how to start this blog. I looked at what my first post was back like 1,000 years ago when I started my other blog and well….that wasn’t much help. (Also, can I just point out that my first ever blog post was 13 years ago? That’s insane.)

I wanted to start a new site to chronicle this new adventure I’ve started on, since the other one didn’t seem to fit.

As my About page goes into more detail about, I’m in the process of soon starting IVF to hopefully have a child on my own. I have been trying to get pregnant for the last two years, give or take. Some of you may know that I was dating someone. We tried naturally to get pregnant, and then we also did two IUI cycles. And then just as I started taking the hormones for the third IUI, I found out he was a lying liar who lies. So. Cycle cancelled.

At that point, I was just going to give up. In fact, I kind of did. I stopped taking my supplements, drank all the alcohol (which I had mostly cut out) and just was really, really sad.

But then I remembered that I didn’t need him. I had made the choice BEFORE I met him, that if I hadn’t met anyone, I was going to do it on my own anyway. So maybe I wasn’t meant to be a parent with him, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t meant to be a parent.

I am hoping to start this all in late January, so hopefully you’ll come along for the ride. I want to chronicle all of this because I know it’s not going to be easy and I’m going to need some place to air my hormonal grievances, to be sure.

Stay tuned!

17 thoughts on “New Beginnings”

  4. Courtney

    Yay ? You GOT THIS GIRL!!!! I’m definitely going to be along for the ride! You will be the best Mommy EVER and glad you didn’t give up for that lying liar that lies ??? love you ?

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  6. Megan

    You’re doing a great thing and you absolutely can do it on your own. (Commenter may be speaking from experience) You will be a great mom. You got this! ????????

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  9. Alice

    this is so exciting!! my detailed posts about my own IVF experience are some of the ones I’m most thankful that i ever wrote – i still find them fascinating to read through and my GOSH do you forget so much of it so quickly. like i was sure i’d have my drug regimin imprinted on my brain for life but… nope, like 1 year later i couldn’t even remember the name of most of the hormones i took, much less the dosages and order and all that crap.

    ANYWAY! All that to say: good luck, I’m glad you’re going through with it, and as someone who has been down that path, many many high fives and fist bumps and I’m here for you if you need support or have questions 🙂

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  10. Alice

    OH! AND! The part you may (?) get some side-eye about is doing the shots yourself. The default seems to be to have your partner do the shots because.. well, I guess that makese sense. The looks I got at my shot how-to clinic when I showed up alone… Anyway, I did 100% of my own shots for the full course PLUS all the additional weeks I had to do blood thinners because of OHSS, so basically screw any naysayers who are like “omg but how will you doooo ittttt??” You just do 😉

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    1. Kristabella Post author

      Thank you! They all knew at my appointment last week and the lady was like “most will be easy by yourself” and I even asked a friend about the ones you have to give in your butt and she was like “I did all mine myself!”

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  11. Shannon

    I love this!!! (Everything but the lying liar part – he can die in a fire). I didn’t have IUI or IVF but I had A LOT of medical testing during my pregnancy with a garbage lying liar partner of my own (so basically I dealt with everything alone) and it was all manageable. As Alice said, you just do what needs to be done! I’m so excited for you and am here to support you in any way that you need!!! Xoxo

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