This post is dedicated to the upcoming National Infertility Awareness Week (oh, an keep and eye out for the upcoming #ListenUp post during NIAW). We also want to celebrate a pretty amazing electronic friend, Justine Brooks Froelker's who just launched her latest book The Mother of Second Chances, based on her blog Ever Upward which is releasing on … [Read more...]
How do Baby Brains Grow?
100 Billion neurons connected to one another in a rapidly developing neural network. Each neuron building connections to up to 10,000 other neurons, firing electrical pulses up to 50 times a second across a distance that is far less than the width of a human hair. Working to encode information at a blistering pace, chemicals … [Read more...]
Awkward Surrogacy Explanation Moments
Candace-Infertility never fully leaves you. I am no longer obsessing over ovulation or how I will pay for our next IVF. I was not too naïve to think that once Jellybean came into our lives, that it would all go away like the swift wave of a magical baby wand and POOF! All the emotional scars and baggage instantly go away! What I did not expect was … [Read more...]