I waited a very long time to have a baby. After over 2 years of trying, many interventions, 1 unsuccessful surgery to remove a very large endometrioma, and 1 round of IVF I am now pregnant with our first baby due September 1, 2009. We are lucky enough to live in NYC, the capital of infertility specialists. We found the best infertility doctor after many months of searching (the third time’s the charm!) and thus began a journey with low-stim IVF. 3 months later I was pregnant!
When we first saw our yet-to-be-implanted child at the zygote stage, my husband lovingly named it “Ziggy”. The name really stuck and whether this baby is a boy or a girl, I think we’ll have a hard time referring to it as anything but.
This blog is a photo journal for the baby. Many of the entries are love notes but not all. This journal begins March 1st, 6 months before Ziggy is due to make an appearance. I would have started this project immediately but us infertiles (and fertiles, too!) are known to be a little bit leery about sharing the news with the masses until we’re out of the woods.
Between now and September 1st I will take photos - of things, of places, of us, of me - and write of, for and to the baby. It is to be a loose photo scrapbook of sorts. I want to tell Z as many things as I can about us and our life and our hopes and our feelings and fears before he/she arrives and I think this is the perfect way to do so.
This is all inspired by a letter my own mother wrote to me when I was in utero. It’s one of my most cherished possessions in the world.