About Me

My name is Jessica and I'm one half of an infertile couple who eventually conceived two healthy sons through IVF, and I'm also a full time trade journalist trying to gracefully balance one role with the other.

My journey to momhood was put on hold for a long time due to drinking, divorce, smoking, paternal fear, unemployment, infertility, IVF with ICSI and the final insult, a trisomy 18 pregnancy.

Finally we experienced the joy of birth to a healthy son following our Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) using the only embryo that survived the thaw out of a total of five that were frozen.

Along the way I learned a lot, shared a lot, cried a lot, and am now trying to regain my sense of humor.

Today my husband David and I (married in 1996 ) have two sons -- Jack, the former frozen embryo who was born in June 2005 and James, conceived from a fresh IVF cycle, and born in July 2007 when I'll was 42 years old)