AND SHE WAS...........

I am infertile.
Does that make you uncomfortable?
Sorry, can’t help it, its true.

Here’s the short story:
7 years ago I started trying to have a baby. Didn’t go so well. Moved onto IVF about 1 ½ years into trying and did five rounds----got pregnant three times and had three miscarriages (one at 14 weeks). After the final miscarriage in December of 2004 my husband and I moved onto adoption (P.S. I was terrified). In October of 2005 our son Jake was born in Maine. I was in the delivery room with his birthmother when he came into this world. All in all it took me 46 months and well over $100,000 to have my first child. If you want details I am happy to share……later.

I found myself at 35 with a baby, a full time+ job running my PR firm The Fawcett Group and a body that had failed me---or so I thought---I didn’t really know which way was up. Now I understand why my life worked out this way---or at least I think I do. I have the child I was meant to have, there’s no doubt about it. The rest of the story? Well, it’s had some bumps and some bigger bumps but in comparison I feel I can handle anything now that I’ve tackled infertility.

Now I see the world a little differently. I am a little less serious, a little more humble, a little less by the book and have a lot more fun.

Bear with me as I settle into this blog and find my groove. I hope to engage and entertain with my unusual perspective and my life as an Upper East Side publicist, a mother, and a girl who is seriously trying to change the world one adoption at a time.

Love much,
xob