Top Ten Infertility Urban Legends
1. Having sex leads to pregnancy. Having intercourse to get pregnant? How is that even possible?
2. The couple who got pregnant naturally after adopting. Everyone knows someone who knows someone this happened to. Although no one ever remembers the couple’s name.
3. Having sex during ovulation increases your chance of getting pregnant. You’ve had sex before, during and after ovulation so where’s the baby?
4. Fertiles have baby showers to celebrate the upcoming birth of their child. Untrue. The baby shower was created to torture infertiles.
5. The social networking site, Facebook, was developed as a new way to connect with your friends. In reality, founder Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook so fertiles can post ultrasound photos, belly shots and further torture infertiles.
6. The Fertility Clinic helps to get people pregnant. In reality, if you see a pregnant woman at your fertility clinic, she is probably a paid actress to make it seem like couples are actually getting pregnant.
7. The Fertility Clinic show cases a wall of thank you cards and baby photos. The babies in the photos are paid actor babies.
8. If you relax, you will get pregnant. You are more likely to get pregnant after being stressed out.
9. If you see a decrease in your basal temperature, likely, your period will arrive soon. A decrease in your basal temperature really means that you are about to have a complete and mental breakdown, believing that you are not pregnant before your period even shows.
10. You only need one egg and one sperm. You’ve had multiple eggs and millions of sperm which resulted in the conception of a large bottle of wine, tub of ice cream and overplaying any of these infertility songs.
#5 and 6 are my favorites!! Missed you Naomi!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE these!!!! I think #6 is one of my favorites. I really wonder about that sometimes. Thanks for giving us all a chance to laugh through the pain and sadness! I know I really appreciate it!
Jen
HAHAHA! Oh, I love a good laugh!
Number 1 and 7 were great! 
Thanks for posting!
hahaha…I have to say I agree with 99.9% of these. However, use me as an example of #2…the doctor told us we would never, ever get pregnant. So we started the adoption process. Imagine our surprise when, after 6 months on a waiting list with an adoption agency, we found out we were pregnant. We were even more shocked when a few weeks later we discovered we were pregnant with twins (and twins don’t run in either of our families). Now I’m 25 weeks with twin boys. I used to hate it when people told me to just adopt and then I’d get pregnant, but lo and behold, it happened for reasons still a mystery to medical science. So you now all have a name to put with #2…
Good luck, ladies!
Bahahahaha…loved 10. How very true.
Really nice information to be remmember and In reality, if you see a pregnant woman at your fertility clinic, she is probably a paid actress to make it seem like couples are actually getting pregnant.Thanks for sharing this great post.
Love it, and, as always, right on the money.
#6 are right on! Laughed so hard at those two.
We are currently waiting to be matched with a birthmother for an adoption. I can’t tell you how many times someone has told me that we will probably get pregnant now. The two IUI’s and five IVF’s didn’t work, so I’m pretty sure our adoption isn’t going to reverse the effect that my husband’s testicular cancer and radiation had on our ability to conceive!
I know exactly what you mean! I have severe fallopian tube disease, and my one fallopian tube is 100% blocked and my other is 90%-95% blocked, grown to my ovary, and pointed in such a way it should never catch an egg. All irreversible. So when people would tell me “just adopt and you’ll get pregnant” I got so freakin’ angry! I was like, “Just because we’re on the waiting list doesn’t mean my tubes are suddenly fixed.”
#11 Once you have a successful full-term pregnancy, you will get pregnant again without any fertility meds. In fact, you will get pregnant again WITHOUT even trying!
Yeah, that was my pipe dream…the whole “pregnancy” fixes you theory. LOL.
I loved # 1, 6 & 7, so freaking funny. I used to hate when people said #2 to me. Adoption is blessing, not a means to a pregnancy. No matter how I tried to explain that, people just didn’t get it.
Thanks for making me smile as always. Love the “paid actor babies” comment that made me literally laugh out loud. Keep it coming!
Oh gosh, this made me laugh so hard. It’s very true about Facebook! My in-law side of the family is suddenly breeding like bunnies.
OMG! This is so true. Loved numbers 2, 4, 5, and 8. I feel like FB is a torture chamber especially when another FB friend announced she was expecting today and all the cute baby pics! Somedays I feel like I never wanna sign on again. And If I had a nickel for evertime we heard numbers 2 and 8, we would be able to pay for our adoption with ease!
In addition to #6: The other pregnant woman at the clinic works there just to make sure you have that constant envy pang with every appointment which keeps you coming back for more and more treatments. Her job is to walk through the hallways looking through papers she’s pretending to deliver to a doctor every 3.7 minutes so that every infertile must step aside to allow the bump to pass by at some point during their visit.
I’m number 2 as well we tried for 6 years with no luck we went through the process to adopt our daughter I induced lactation so I could breastfeed her and try to do what ii would have done for a baby I gave birth to… she was born on 09.09.09 (i was 2 days late at the time but figured it was because of nerves) and she was absolutely beautiful imagine my surprise when on 09.16.09 I took a test just so it would say not pregnant so I would start my period and it read PREGNANT I couldn’t believe my eyes…. we now have 2 beautiful daughters… anything is possible you just have to have faith….
4. 4 is the bane of my life.
And 8. If I hear one more person in my family of dozens of children say number 8, I will go on a murderous rampage.
Lovely! Loved all of them. About the adoption one, there are always exceptions. I know of at least a couple of women in real life who filled all their adoption papers then boom, the pop out a baby every other year, just like that. But I can see why it it can be a very insensitive comment. I, for one, have not thought of adoption and right now it is not a calling. But whenever I hear of comments I get a bit antsy, especially when it comes from people who are fertile or who have never gone through the infertility process. Although for friends going through the adoption process I am very very supportive and happy for them.
You gotta love no. 10
All so very true. Love #10! #8 is pretty standard “advice”. We’ve been ttc for almost 3 years now. While out to dinner with my husband and his parents, my MIL offers us this golden nugget. My response: “Well, we were totally relaxed for the first year we were trying and nothing happened then. I guess it’s up to science now.”
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But whenever I hear of comments I get a bit antsy, especially when it comes from people who are fertile or who have never gone through the infertility process. Although for friends going through the adoption process I am very very supportive and happy for them.