Comments for Mary Katherine Kennedy

Comment on Sharing My Son’s Birth Story on Valentine’s Day by mk

mk — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:36:07 +0000

Marcia:
I e-mailed you, so I could forward you an electronic copy of the DES Action VOICE newsletter, which features an article about DES impact on granddaughters and grandsons. And, yes, we have finally, finally decided on a name.

Comment on Sharing My Son’s Birth Story on Valentine’s Day by marciaellis

marciaellis — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:26:07 +0000

Hi Mary Katherine!
I didn’t think my last post went through-I never saw it posted on the site! I didn’t know you lived in Cincinnati, how cool! I went to Badin High School(in Hamilton) and then to St Mary’s College in South Bend Indiana. I met my husband in the summer during college and we both moved back here after college. I worked for Fifth Third Bank until my daughter was born and I’ve stayed home ever since. My son(a senior at St. Xavier H.S.) is 90% sure he’s going to Miami next year! He absolutely loves it up there. I will definitely check out the DES website…I had a feeling I hadn’t heard the end of that issue! Have you decided what you’re going to name your new little guy???

Comment on Sharing My Son’s Birth Story on Valentine’s Day by mk

mk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:38:58 +0000

Hi, Marcia.

I remember you! Unfortunately, evidence does exist that DES Granddaughters can be affected by their mothers’ exposure to DES in utero. Regarding DES Grandsons, anamolies exist, but can’t be definitively linked to their mothers’ DES exposure. The most-recent DES Action VOICE newsletter addresses this specific topic, and, if you contact Fran Howell, DES Action’s Executive Director, she will be happy to send you any past articles on this issue. A link to DES Action’s website is on the right hand on this home page. I will also look at my DES books to see if I can find any other information for you.

And, last, I can’t remember if I mentioned this last time, but I lived in Cincinnati from 1985-1995, went to Sycamore High School for my final year and a half of high school, then to Miami University, then back to Cincinnati, where I worked at an ad agency, then the Cincinnati Museum Center. I lived first in Montgomery, then in Mt. Lookout.

Comment on Sharing My Son’s Birth Story on Valentine’s Day by marciaellis

marciaellis — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:27:17 +0000

Mary Katherine,
I have so enjoyed reading your posts…I came upon your site when researching DES exposure…I too am DES exposed and have an abnormally shaped/hooded cervix. I have three children ages, 17(boy), 14(boy),and 12(girl). I had issues with my cervix thinning starting at 20 weeks with all three of them and took the drug Brethine(yuck!)combined with bedrest with success and had all of them at 36/37 weeks. My doctor used me as a teaching device for “textbook DES exposure” whenever I was in the office/hospital to show the residents what a DES cervix looked like! I felt like a freak show! I was just researching to find if there has been any secondary effects in the children of DES daughters…my ob/gyn said there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it is passed on to our children..hope so! I’m rooting for you and your pregnancy…you seem like somebody I would love to hang out with! Can’t wait to hear what comes next for you…good luck!

Marcia Ellis
Cincinnati Ohio

Comment on Post-Infertility Pregnancy Guilt by mk

mk — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:02:25 +0000

Tracy:
Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Of course, being currently pregnant, I’m in the throes of guilt. And having many friends of childbearing age, plus writing my blog, I’m in daily contact with wonderful, deserving people who continue to struggle to become parents. While I hope that the guilt fades, as it has for you, I hope I never lose the perspective my infertility experiences have brought me–foremost the absolute gratitude for my 5-year-old son and the baby boy I’m carrying.

Thanks for friending me on Facebook too.

Comment on Post-Infertility Pregnancy Guilt by Tracy Morris

Tracy Morris — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:37:35 +0000

My very similar feelings were drawn to your blogpost from the hundreds of headlines that boggle my eyeballs daily. I’d never presume to tell anyone in our shoes that ‘this too shall pass’ — I can only share my experience, and that is that the guilt faded over time (it’s been 15 years since my infertility journey began) but it’s still there. Those scars are still there, and I think of them as I do physical marks on my body: evidence of life, reminders of choices, and navigational tools. This is the first I’ve heard of your memoir and I am absolutely thrilled to hear you’re writing it. Not because I am a huge fan of infertility memoirs (I ranted about that once in a blogpost, in fact) but because yours is being told from a sweetly unique perspective. Thank you.

Comment on 29 Weeks Pregnant: Zero Stamina by mk

mk — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:10:48 +0000

Thanks, Jenny. I’ll ask my doctor. To have even slightly more energy would be phenomenal. I was watching TV with my son this morning and nodding off. Sad…

Comment on 29 Weeks Pregnant: Zero Stamina by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:43:19 +0000

My comments were meant to go on this post, just FYI.

Comment on A Lesson Learned From My Sweet, Possessive Son by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:42:20 +0000

Oh, to clarify, my twins pregnancy was when I was 32, I had only one baby at 38. : )

Comment on A Lesson Learned From My Sweet, Possessive Son by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:41:12 +0000

When I felt like this during my twin pregnancy it turned out that my iron was low. After about two days on extra iron, I was feeling soooo much better. Ask your doctor. I was pregnant at 38, never 41, but it can’t be that different, and I wasn’t too horribly exhausted, although the bedrest might have weakened you as well.