This pregnancy didn't exactly happen the way we planned, but it turned out beyond perfect.

6 Months later and $10,000 poorer, the first embryo didn't take. Emotional and exhausted from the treatment I took a month of to clear my head and then start it all again. Little did I know my cycle was completely out of whack and we conceived a baby on our month off.

19 weeks into the pregnancy and the day had come to find out what the sex was. Happy for another boy and expecting that, I was totally shocked when she said its definitely a little girl. I started to cry... my husband was fearful that I was worried about my daughters future. I said NO, I am just so happy.

Having such a strong bond with my mother has given me the knowledge and understanding. I would go through this surgery 20 times over to be my mothers daughter. I hope that my daughter will feel the same. Being part of this family is worth BRCA1, its worth having a double preventive mastectomy.... I am so lucky that I live in a time where I could make proactive choices. Just imagine with the research being funded now, what kind of a world my daughter will live in. One where breast cancer is not a threat..... I can only hope.

Bonnie's Hope

Our beautiful daughter was welcomed into the world at the begining of June 2010. My desire for a cure is now a imperitive. Bonnie may not carry the gene fault... wouldnt that be wonderful.

However if she does, I want her to have the best options available to her. I dont want her to ever go through what the women before her have. It is my hope for the future that young girls like Bonnie, will have a cure. Will have a future where they wont be afraid of hereditary cancer, that they can keep their breasts and not feel threatened by them every day. That BRCA will be a thing of the past. Bonnie wont ever have to look at my breasts and think that hers will look like that one day.

For the time being she is just being a beautiful baby without a care in the world.