Highs and Lows

Amber&Reva

As 2014 is coming to an end lets share our highs and our lows of the past year.

bfonz619

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

High: Paying off all of our debt.
Low: Our CP.

Amber&Reva

This year probably had more highs and lows then any previous year.

Lows:  The loss of our baby girl Brynlee at 19w due to pre-term labor.  That was by far the most difficult and emotional experience I have ever been through.  I still think of her at some point most days and sometimes I still cry over what will never be. 

My other low was my love bug of a dog Oliver running away and going missing for 2 entire weeks.  R got so depressed and it was just to much for either of us to handle after the year we had already had.  We spent two weeks sleeping on the living room floor on an air mattress because it was closest to the front door and we wanted to hear him if he came home at night.

Highs:  I had one vial of sperm left and our donor was sold out so we had one chance to get pregnant with Brynlee's 100% biological sibling and it took!! I am now 30w pregnant with Brynlee's biological sister and although this pregnancy has had some stressful moments and I continue to worry every day that something will go wrong I am becoming more and more confident that in about two months R and I will be bring home our take home baby and our lives will be turned up-side down for the best and most rewarding reason possible.

My other high was after 2 long weeks Oliver being found for the most part healthy minus some serious weight loss.  At the moment he is laying  beside me sleeping.  He loves snuggling with my belly and will (fingers crossed) make a good big brother very soon.

Lets bring in 2015 with lots of pregnancies and healthy babies!!!

2momsinCA

Low: 5/27/14-8/2/14. Those were 70 days of NICU purgatory after my twin boys were born 12 weeks early via a terrifying and devastating emergency c section.

Highs: 1/2/14. The day we first saw two flickering heartbeats on the ultrasound. 8/3/14-currently. Every day at home with my sons. Extended maternity leave has been the sweetest joy. As each day passes, my boys become more and more adorable, silly, playful, and smart. Everyday my love for them and my gratitude to any and all higher powers for their existence, including all the NICU doctors, grows exponentially.

ball.and.chain

Highs: Finding out in January that we were having a healthy perfect boy.  Feeling him start to kick and move around.  Watching my wife seeing and feeling him kick for the first time.  Meeting him for the first time.  Witnessing all of his milestones -- his first smile, his first laugh -- and getting to know his sunny little personality.  Seeing my wife become an amazing, intuitive, loving mother.

Lows: Probably just the post-partum period.  Between the baby blues, magnesium, being unable to walk due to nerve damage in my foot, and getting pee all over myself and the bed every time I tried to use a bedpan, my son's first week or so was not the best.  Having a brand-new newborn and dealing with all the confusion and sleep deprivation and feelings of inadequacy was hard, and breast-feeding was the pits.  But I had to go through that to get to the love fest that has been months 3-6, so I'll take it!

2MamazInSeattle

Low: Getting a positive cell-free DNA screening for Trisomy X and the related anxiety/cloud over our already-challenging post-loss pregnancy. Having a sh*t supply of breastmilk.

High: Finding out that test was wrong, and S is chromosomally normal!!! Tied with that would be the ease of her birth and how much I got to enjoy her coming into the world, little-to-no postpartum yucks and the ability to take the full 20 weeks of maternity leave (8 of which were unpaid).

ATXmommas

High: Coming into my own as a mother. The first few weeks in 2013 were a shock to the system. 2014 was a time to build confidence and learn to trust my instincts. Seeing Ash grow into this little person is simply the most amazing thing ever.

Also in 2014, I received a nice promotion that i feel really proud of.

Low: The drama with my SIL (as explained in the most recent Confessions thread) has been the worst. Lots of sadness and anger because of it.

StacyLH24

Highs:  Our trip to Florida in March.  Getting approved for our loan for IVF.

Low:  My cp.  The fresh and FET cycles not working.

shelly2314

Low- knowing I wasn't pregnant (the high was finding out what I "knew" was wrong) and the other low was the hormone fluctuations that come with pregnancy and birth...the struggle is real ya'll

High- Finding out I was pregnant and then having the girls. The real high came this week when I finally felt that overwhelming love and adoration for my girls (I always loved them, but I hadn't really expressed that all-encompassing feeling some women talk about...I think that came from my hormone issues)

Esquette

High: Our wedding at the end of September.  It was perfect.  Our family and friends came from all over and we had a beautiful magical evening.  

Low: Everything until March.  On January 2nd, my massage therapist poked my side and suggested I see a doctor.  After a flurry of doctors appointments and various tests, it was determined that I had a basketball sized tumor on my right ovary.  I looked about 5 months pregnant. It was too big to remove laproscopically, so I needed full-on abdominal surgery.  I had surgery on January 30th, came home on February 2nd and spent a lot of time on the couch on pain pills.  On February 9th, my mom and I took my cat to the vet, discovered she had a lung tumor that was sending painful tumors to her toes.  We had a vet come over and put her down on February 13th.  She was 15, and we say that if one of us had to have cancer, she took it away from me to save me.  

I am ready for 2015.  Bring in the New Year.  

KH826

High: the birth of our amazing son and getting to watch him learn and grow everyday. He is more than I ever imagined.

Low: his first 5 days of life in the NICU, my truly rough recovery from child birth including infected stitches, weeks 4-5 of Will's life in Children's Hospital when he had an infection (lowest low, having to hold him on his side at 4 wks old while he had a spinal tap in the ER). We truly had a tough start, but after the first 6 weeks, it was like none of that ever happened...

ticktock0903

High: Finding out that I was pregnant and those two weeks of bliss knowing my little boy was in there. I had mild symptoms and I relished every single one. I peed on about 10 sticks just to see those lines. I dreamed his whole life in those 2 weeks.

Low: Losing my precious little boy and knowing that those dreams would never become reality for little Jonah.Those days after where everything seemed harsh and cruel and I had to mentally check out just to keep my sanity.

High: Feeling a little hope for the future and the thought of one day holding Jonah's little brother/sister in my arms and telling him/her about Jonah.

redrockmama

Low: my step mom dying from cancer. It still doesn't seem real. I think about her everyday and wish she could have been here to meet Thijs. I'll never be able to explain to him how amazing she was.

High: our beautiful little love being born and getting to be his mommy. I love him so much it hurts.

Danni_Girl

This has been a rough year...

High: finding out we were pregnant. Most amazing feeling ever. Plus Jo got her Sgt's this month, so yay to a promotion.

Low: my father passing away at the beginning of the year. His sister, my Aunt, passing about a month after. Jo's grandmother passing in July. Finding out our baby was very sick and has Turner Syndrome. And then to end the year, we lost our Baby Girl.

It's been such a nightmare of a year for both our families. The hardest part is our baby was the light at the end of a dark 2014 tunnel, but that was not the case and we have to work through another loss.

High: we know there is nothing physically wrong with me, I did not cause our baby to become so sick. It was a 'lightening strike' occurrence and not something they expect to happen again. So that is something good to hear as we will be trying again to expand our family.

Jazibel

Highs: the birth of Owen and getting to know our youngest son. Being Kaden & Owens mom everyday. Graduating with my MBA and completing my Capstone project and defense less than a week after Owen was born.

Lows: Sadly just the ever present worry over finances and drama tied to our house in Roatan. Please let us have some closure in 2015.