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Parenting / Family

Introducing our Miracle Baby: Benjimin Brown

We’re excited to provide an update to our near-decade long infertility journey and the happy ending to what had been a very long and painful chapter of our lives. Introducing our Miracle Baby: Benjimin Brown!
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Unexplained Infertility

After trying for nearly a decade—we got pregnant! Naturally, somehow.

Mike and I are pregnant. Naturally. Somehow. After nearly a decade trying to conceive, with an Unexplained Infertility diagnosis, three failed IUI procedures, one failed IVF procedure, one failed adoption, one endometriosis surgery, and countless other failed efforts to get pregnant, we are somehow pregnant.
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Unexplained Infertility

So our IVF failed and the world is on fire, what do we do next?

What we couldn’t have imagined thinking nearly a decade ago when we started trying to have kids—the moment we’d no longer want to have kids anymore—appears to have arrived. It’s sad, but it’s not sad. We’re not that sad anymore. Read about the next decision in our infertility journey.
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Linda Hoang Mike Brown Unexplained Infertility - IVF Abroad Procreation Vacation Barbado
Barbados

Pros and Cons to a Procreation Vacation (Our Experience with IVF Abroad in Barbados)

This December 2021, Mike and I embarked on an IVF Abroad journey (affectionately referred to as our “Procreation Vacation” as we enter into our eighth year trying to conceive / dealing with Unexplained Infertility. We share Pros and Cons to the experience and why we would recommend this type of approach if you are also struggling with infertility.
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Unexplained Infertility

Infertility Awareness Week 2021: My Seven Images of Infertility

2021 marks our seventh year trying to conceive, and another year trying new things to conceive. With it being Infertility Awareness Week (April 18-24, 2021), I thought I would share My Seven Images of Infertility and feelings to reflect and mark a seven-year milestone that I wouldn’t wish upon anyone.
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Unexplained Infertility

So What Do We Do When Our Adoption Agency Suddenly Closes?

On May 26, 2020, the adoption agency we had been going through our application process with, Adoption by Choice, Alberta’s longest-running and first licensed adoption agency in the province (operating for more than 30 years), emailed applicants—Albertans who so desperately wanted to have children—to let them know that the agency was shutting down. This is not what we thought our next update would be in our infertility / adoption journey, but here’s what happened and what we plan to do next.
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