Transitus Tiber

Life as a Catholic wife and mother

Baby Update, final

I don’t like writing this post. In a sense, though; I am relieved to be writing this post. Unless something changes, we most likely lost the baby. I started doing more than just bleed late this afternoon. The irony is that my progesterone was low. I had the bottle of progesterone in my hand. We [...]

Baby Update: Not So Good

Last night I had some major optimism when the spotting went away for a couple of hours. However, it returned around 10pm last night and has steadily progressed to light bleeding, to moderate bleeding with some slight cramping. Everything is pointing to miscarriage, despite seeing what we should be seeing yesterday. I haven’t actually passed [...]

Prayers for our newest addition?

Okay, so I had all these great ideas for writing this post. In fact, I started hinting about it – that’s what those two medical appointments are about. Obstetrical appointments. BABY APPOINTMENTS!! Any and all posts I had written in my head disappeared this afternoon, when I began spotting. And not ‘old blood’ spotting, either. [...]

Time to play me some Queen!

(coming out of Holy Week resting because I can’t stop laughing about this). I saw my ophthalmologist on Monday, as I blogged last week. He says my migraines are ‘ocular migraines’ and are totally related to the stress of finishing up the house. He recommended taking a pain reliever as soon as I even think [...]

Whoa, man.

That pretty much sums up last week. We learned last Monday that one of Major Dad’s cousins died suddenly from diabetic complications. We are still shocked by this and at least once a day our thoughts to her and to her daughter (who is younger than me), who is devastated. Please pray for the repose [...]

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