My husband and I started trying to conceive in October of 2007. We figured it'd be easy since he already has three daughters who were conceived within a month of trying.
Hah.
Three IVFs: (1 missed miscarriage at 8 weeks, 1 ectopic pregnancy miscarried at 5 weeks, 1 spontaneous pregnancy that ended in a missed miscarriage at 5 weeks); and 1 FET (a missed miscarriage at 9 weeks.)
Which equals: lots of drugs injected, lots of money spent, lots of weight gained. But no live babies. Infertility sucks. RPL sucks ass.
So we moved on to using donor eggs, and achieved a healthy, genetically normal pregnancy our first try. After all the drama of the last few years, my pregnancy was essentially uneventful.
Henry was born on September 18, 2010 and he is, without a doubt, the best thing that ever happened to me. This blog is in the process of becoming less of an ongoing infertility journal and more of a mommy/radical homemaker/writer blog. Can't wait to see what's next for us.
This would be really cute if it weren’t born of such incredible frustration. I’m sorry you are stuck waiting. It does indeed suck. Try some ginger tea, and to distract yourself go outside and try to enjoy the lovely day.
Waiting does suck, doesn’t it!
This whole IF game seems to just be “hurry up and wait”… Here’s to hoping you dont have to wait too long!
It’s such a cute poem but I’m sorry you had to even write it. I hope AF comes soon, very very very soon. Try the white undies. i don’t know why, but it works.
For some reason reading this reminds me of this time when I was in my 20s. I had probably been on BC pills for about 4 years or so. One time I was visiting my best friend in Boston. We were eating lunch. I excused myself to go to the restroom. When I came back I confessed to her that I was feeling stressed out, because my period was late. In her very caring best friend way she asked “how late are you?” I replied “3 hours”. Needless to say she then laughed pretty hard. I was serious! The fact is, for years I took my last pill on a Friday and started my period Sunday at noon! Every single cycle for years! Of course it came. And has come every month since that… and that was about 15 years ago… Oh how young and naive I was… (sweet). — I’m sorry your weekend has had to be about waiting!! You at least seem to creatively fill up your time. Hope it shows up this evening maybe…
There is something about the cadence of your rhyming that reminds me of an Edward Gorey piece. Gah! Maybe the time and weather change put you off. Hoping you get to it very soon.
You are rediculously clever
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white pants baby, best underwear…
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kate
Holy shit! I thought I was the only user of the diva cup!
Susan Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Diva cups are the best.