Damn you, www.mypregnancyminutebyminute.com! Screw you, www.mybabyisthesizeofaneggplant.com!
When you first started trying, you thought it would be fun to sign up for weekly email pregnancy updates. Or perhaps you signed up when you got your first positive result…and then you miscarried. You started to receive weekly emails that detailed your fetus’ development and pregnancy. At first it was exciting and cute.
Week 4: Congratulations! Your embryo is now the size of a poppy seed. You may start to feel nausea, swollen boobs and a pregnancy impostor.
Week 8: Uh Oh! You are now bleeding but the good news is you will never stop receiving these pregnancy updates emails.
Please remove me from your mailing list. But you can never seem to get removed from the list. Every week, the emails keep coming, and every time you check your email, there is another update. And to add to the fun, Google provided you with pregnancy advertisements to enjoy.
Week 12: You are still not pregnant yet but if you were, you would look super cute in that maternity shirt!
Week 20: Why are you still infertile? But here’s another pregnancy update!
Week 40: Instead of having a baby this month, you will get your period and get fat due to fertility medication.
UNSUBSCRIBE.
Even better is when you “unsubscribe” and then they send you a “Happy First Birthday” e-mail on the date when your baby would have turned one. Talk about taking a difficult day and making it worse…Then when you unsubscribe from THAT one, they ask for your reason. I was polite, but firm in my response–amazingly enough, I never got a sympathy e-mail from them…
Out of the blue, I started getting Similac coupons and samples in the mail fairly regularly. At least my SIL could use them!
Agreed! A few months after my second and third miscarriages, I got a letter in the mail addressed to “The [Lastname] Children” trying to shill Disney videos. I didn’t sign up for pregnancy updates with my fourth pregnancy until I was 20 weeks along. I was lucky enough to have a Real Live Take Home Baby this time, but I got another Disney mailer addressed to my children in the mail last week. I think I cried harder getting it the second time than I did the first!
Oh, those emails drive me crazy! I have been back to the websites over and over but according to my emails I have a 3 year old that is getting into everything. The similac checks go to my sister, she was 10 weeks ahead of me this last pregnancy (and actually had a kid).
Don’t ever give your email to Motherhood Maternity for sure! I miscarried a week after I purchased clothes there and they asked for the due date. They sent my email & physical address to every single vendor they possibly could. Never mind that I would not have needed maternity clothes that early if it weren’t for the fact that I got so fat from the IVF meds!
These constant reminders of what I lost was unbearable! My husband had to get the mail and sort through all the junk before I got to it. And the “unsubscribe” links don’t work!
Which, of course, leads to a damn box of Similac on your doorstep two weeks before your due date. As if you need a reminder of what you don’t have.
A similar thing happens if you buy a baby gift for anyone. When my best friend had her baby I bought a whole bunch of baby stuff at Buy Buy Baby and Babies R’ Us. Both stores now think I had the baby (even though I purchased off a baby registry) and keep sending me coupons and catalogs full of baby stuff. I give them to my friend, but it’s still depressing.
I thought I unsubscribed from everything after I lost my twins, but a few weeks ago I got an email of how old they would be and what milestones. It took a few calls for the local maternity store to stop calling me about sales.
I made this mistake the first time I got pregnant! We were so ignorant in thinking that getting pregnant meant staying pregnant! We we finally did have a pregnancy that would stick around for the entire 40 weeks, I did not sign up until the middle of the second trimester. I was too afraid I would be stuck with those emails again. Our miracle little boy is now almost a year and a half!!! If you would like to hear our story you can visit http://www.ivfsuccessstories.info Good luck to all of you still trying!
Having never had a BFP in 3 years, 3 months of trying I’m grateful to have never experienced miscarriage but saddened that I’ve never felt the excitement of signing up for anything baby-related. Infertility sucks!
I’ve never even been pregnant, wishful thinking led me to sign up for email updates like this on the day of my last insem. Thanks, bay e-mails, for telling me that I’m NOT actually 28 weeks pregnant and that I’m just waiting to bleed so I can start the damn pill for my first IVF.
This made me cry to type it….
If you’ve been trying to conceive for a year or more and you’re not pregnant, it’s time to see your GP. If you’re a woman over 35, or if you think either of you may have a fertility problem, see your GP after six months of trying to conceive. Your GP may refer you to a fertility clinic. This will usually be in a hospital and will provide fertility treatments.
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better off have the dr office call you and ask you would you like to come in for your 20 week sonogram to find out your baby sex even tho they told you at 11 weeks you missed mc I never been so up set i did not know to yell or cry at the same time so the email as the same
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Yep, that’s me. The day I found out I was miscarrying, they sent me an 11 week update. UNSUBSCRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!