Hello, and Happy New Year, friends! I hope it’s not too late to say Happy New Year - truthfully, I always wonder what the appropriate cut off is at the start of a new year for using that greeting…

Anyway, it’s a new year, there are new things happening in our infertility journey, and I’m ready to share an update!

If you follow me on Instagram, you know by now that at the end of the summer (after my last update post), we completed an ERA test and had our first frozen embryo transfer (FET)!

Last year, I shared with you my tips for how to survive the holidays when navigating infertility. (You can read those tips here.) I recently re-read that post and remembered how, deep down, I still felt hopeful back then about what was ahead of us in our infertility journey. Even through the pain of another holiday season passing without a pregnancy or a baby. But I’ll be honest friends - as we approach our fifth holiday season still navigating infertility after the loss of our pregnancy in October, that hope feels very hard to find right now.