I’ve been quiet over the last several months, but for good reason and if you already follow me on Instagram you know the reason why. I’m excited to share that after five years of unexplained infertility, we are looking forward to welcoming a little girl in November 2021.
Infertility is a crushing, heart-wrenching experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone. The last five years have been a crash course in women’s medicine, teaching me above all else to always advocate for yourself, seek additional opinions, and never to give up. It’s hard to know exactly what made the biggest difference and finally allowed us to become pregnant.
After six unsuccessful iui cycles at two different specialists we decided in December 2020 to move forward with IVF at a third specialist. After being cleared to proceed I was instructed to call the office at my next cycle day 1. Much to our surprise that cycle never came and UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY….. Miraculously became….. a natural Pregnancy.
While we prepared to move into IVF I took a few months to work on my mental health, attend acupuncture and see what else I could do to better prepare my body for IVF including visiting my primary care doctor to make sure there wasn’t any other hormonal reason I was continuing to struggle with conception. He looked through my cart and immediately asked if any of the specialists I visited previously had provided a diagnosis of PCOS. Based on my bloodwork, he felt it was likely PCOS was a factor in our infertility and recommended trying metformin, the typical PCOS treatment, as a long shot while we waited to start IVF.
During our initial consult with our third reproductive endocrinologist she shared that yes, I definitely have PCOS and I should tell my primary care doctor he was correct. Three weeks later I had my first ever positive pregnancy test. I can’t say for certain that metformin was the reason we finally conceived on our own, but I do know I am grateful to have a doctor who listens and was willing to try a new treatment path.
Over five years I’ve mentally planned a lot of different ways to announce our pregnancy, but now that we’re here I am love how we were able to tell our love story through the arrival of our little one.
Drew and I met in college at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, thanks largely to our shared membership in Greek organizations. Being a member of a Fraternity [yes, women’s organizations can be fraternities as well] is a huge part of who we both are and our experiences are ones we will share with our daughter so she can decide if she wants to continue in Greek Life when she’s in college.
Pregnancy photos by the amazing and talented Amanda at Belle Vie Photography. Amanda was a huge trooper driving all the way up from Denver to take photos with us in the 100+ plus heat! Even with all of us literally melting they came out so amazing!!!
I just realized its been eons in internet time since the last time I posted and I wanted to hop on and give a quick update of where I’ve been and what fun projects I have in the works for you to keep an eye out for. I thrive in staying busy but I have to admit that the kind of busy that I’ve been operating under for the last month is a bit extreme even for me.
Since my last post was right before Valentine’s Day, I’ll start there!
At the end of February we listed our house for sale and if you know anything about the Denver housing market you probably know that means that things have been a little bit crazy. If you don’t know anything about the Denver market, I love you, but please don’t move here 😉 We’d been planning since last summer to sell and move to the opposite side of town to try and improve the commutes to both of our jobs, but the actual getting things ready to go was a whirlwind. I’m hoping to put together a full post on my thoughts about staging a house for sale, so that should be coming in the next few weeks.
Since we knew that selling would mean a ton of showings, we intentionally planned the go live date for when we headed out of town on vacation to MAUI. It was an incredible trip and included some much needed downtime in what has started off as a real busy year. Maui is beautiful and I couldn’t stop thinking about how lucky we are to be able to take a trip like that and really enjoy the time off together. With opposite work schedules, sometimes its hard for Drew and I to be more than just passing ships, so spending an entire week together was incredible.
Here is my quick video of the trip and there will be more to come in talking about all the amazing things we did while we were in Hawaii.
Once we were back, we hit the ground running on finding a new house since thanks to our incredible realtor we were under contract before the end of the trip. After months of watching the area we want to move to and a handful of showings earlier in the year, we found the perfect house! Now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that everything goes as it should for the next month and we’ll be all moved over to north side of town!
Outside off all that, I’ve been really excited to get to work with more bloggers and business owners as part my new SEO Agency, Mae Digital! Over the years I’ve worked with photographers and other creative business owners to help them get more exposure on search engines with referrals coming from the amazing ladies I’ve worked with! One of my goals for 2018 is to connect with and help more website owners understand the mysteries of SEO and I launched Mae Digital last fall. Since then, I’ve been working on rolling out SEO trainings and programs for bloggers and photographers and have had some wonderful clients start up SEO services with me. If you are interested in learning more about SEO, go join my facebook group were I host Office Hours every couple of weeks and walk you through questions and changes to the Google Algorithm.
That said, I can’t believe we are already halfway through MARCH. I’m excited about everything that is going on and looking forward to having a ton of new fun home decor posts to work on once we are all moved into the new house.
Winter in Denver is characterized by chaotic weather patterns and the comforting constant of the new year ringing in with the National Western Stock Show. What I didn’t know until this year is that stock show time doesn’t just mean rodeo, it also coincides with largest trade show in the WORLD for western apparel and equipment. That’s right, the largest in the world, WESA Denver is a weekend long event featuring over 2,500 product lines and over 7,000 retailers stocking their boutiques with the hottest fashions of the year.
For me, that meant an inside peek at all fashion trends we’ll be seeing over the next few months during both the fashion show and throughout the trade show over the weekend. Western fashion inspires styles you see at all your favorite stores. This year, fun patterns and bright colors are making waves. Throughout the entire fashion show, the jewel tones and bold patterns made a mark on women’s styles. Continue Reading…
Introducing Rocky Mtn Bliss! Thank you for joining me on my blogging journey. I’ve relaunched this blog with a new name (formerly thatsnotsix), and will be working on building the layout and content in the coming months.
I appreciate you sticking with me as I work through all the kinks in the blog, and would love your feedback and ideas.
As Rocky Mtn Bliss, I’ll be blogging about my Rocky Mountain Bliss, but would love to include the voices of others. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have an idea for a post or if you’d like to join as a guest blogger sharing your own Rocky Mtn Bliss story.
