Ali D

I Was Stressed To The Max, And So Were My Jeans

December 4, 2012

My life has an absurd amount of stress. Between raising three kids under seven, being a full time nursing student, attempting to run our home, working part time as a baking assistant and trying to be a good wife it is safe to say I am overwhelmed most of the time. When I’m overwhelmed? I [...]

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My Egg Donation Journey: Follow Up

October 9, 2012

I wrote a couple weeks ago about my adventure in donating eggs. I was just getting ready to start my medications and was super nervous about it all. So here is the dizzy on the skizzy about the whole process and how I feel now that I have completed a successful cycle. First I would [...]

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Will The Court System Ever Catch Up To What Makes A Family?

October 3, 2012

It is no secret that the nuclear family is evolving. There are same sex parents raising children. There are single parents doing it completely alone. There are split families; sometimes with 4 parents, sometimes 3 and sometimes just 2. Sometimes you just have a biological parent and a step parent raising a child with no [...]

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My Egg Donation Journey

August 28, 2012

Ten years ago the only frame of reference for the term “egg donor” I had was when it was used to describe a cruddy mother. Then a friend of mine told me about something that she had seen on the news, a story about a woman who became pregnant after chemotherapy had rendered her eggs [...]

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