It’s the holiday season and the greeting cards keep coming in.
Wow. It’s cousin Jilly and her 3 kids! Look at cousin Mary’s card with the kids dressed all in red. How freakin’ cute! It’s your friend’s greeting card and oh look, she included the cutest picture of her ultrasound. How fu*%king adorable.
It’s time the infertile fought back! It’s time YOU sent the holiday card, infertile style. How about a picture of you, your hubby and a pink elephant in a room…”Seasons Greeting from the infertile couple.” An image of you both and your 4 fertilized embryos…”Merry Christmas from the Brady Bunch.” A picture of you jabbing yourself with a fertility needle… “Hope you have a painless holiday! From Jenny and Max.” A picture of you in stirrups….”Hope Santa brings you new socks for Christmas! From Ally, Jim and the follicles.” A picture of you both at your IVF cycle… “Hope you RETRIEVE everything you want this Christmas. Love Jill and Mill”
‘Tis the f&%#king season.
LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!! Definitely gives me some inspiration. Or…how about when those lovely fertiles send you their holidays "newsletters"?
I've never received a fertile holiday newsletter before. Hope I don't get one of those!
In the future if I ever send a holiday card with my (future) kids on it, I will add a disclaimer that says "these IVF kids were made in a test tube."
OMG- I whish I had thought of this… I'm definitely a big enough a-hole to really send them…
Maybe next year, haha.
LOL!! Don't forget the "year end review" letter.
This is funny. I just posted my Christmas card/letter dilemma. What perfect timing! I don't have the guts to send the ones you mentioned though =( Most people don't know about our TTC issues.
omg…this may be my fave post yet!
I love the thought of the image of me jabbing myself with a fertility needle. A painless holiday indeed!
LOL! Yes, tis the season
Even we can have a Merry Christmas just like everyone else with children!
So true! I made a card that I would like to send & posted it on my blog a few weeks ago. DH won't let me send it.
I'm in the middle of my 2ww and this gave me some much needed laughter!
ha ha ha – I love the pink elephant card. Awesome.
Hate the fu**ing holidays! All those families rubbing their happiness in your face! GRR
One of my best friends is one of the world’s first IVF babies, and she hates to be called a ‘test tube baby’. She was made in a petri dish, thankyouverymuch! (I saw a photo of her when she was four cells big, how awesome is that!)
Love it – After today’s melt down this was perfect timing to come across. I mentioned something like this to my hubby – to sign our christmas card with out names followed by “our five baby angels” or with pics embyros that didn’t make it. Sad thing is my hubby said our familes wouldn’t get the correlation of 5 baby angels to our 5 miscarriages – he said they would think we were talking about our dead pets. Sad but true.
Sad thing is my hubby said our familes wouldn’t get the correlation of 5 baby angels to our 5 miscarriages – he said they would think we were talking about our dead pets. Sad but true.
She was made in a petri dish, thankyouverymuch! (I saw a photo of her when she was four cells big, how awesome is that!)
I mentioned something like this to my hubby – to sign our christmas card with out names followed by “our five baby angels” or with pics embyros that didn’t make it. Sad thing is my hubby said our familes wouldn’t get the correlation of 5 baby angels to our 5 miscarriages – he said they would think we were talking about our dead pets.