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Well, that was uncalled for…

You already had a plan for this month’s cycle. You had useless baby-making sex during ovulation and you decided that you had at least a 1% chance of hope this month that you could actually be pregnant.

If your period was late, you planned to check the toilet paper hourly and pray that you didn’t see your Auntie Flow. If it was one day late, you might go to the store and pick up a pregnancy test or perhaps, you would wait until it was at least two days late, just to be on the safe side. Every hour your period is late would add to your hope.

But then your period arrived a freakin’ two days early and your plan was thrown off completely! What the fertile, Auntie Flow!!! That was clearly not in the plan. Now, you start to obsess and thoughts race through your infertile brain…. Is it my period or is that implantation bleeding? It’s only a little bit of blood. Is that really my period? Continue reading »

You went to see your new Allergist for the first time.

The receptionist at Doctor Ragweed’s office hands you the New Patient Form and you sit down to fill it out. You check off all the NO columns until one question stops you.

Are you Pregnant?  (yes)   (no)

You are in your 7,000th two week wait again so technically, you could be pregnant. How do you answer that question? You chew on the back of the pencil as you ponder your answer. You can’t circle YES because you know you probably aren’t pregnant but you can’t rule out NO just yet. It’s too early to test and you still have hope right? You think about adding another MAYBE column to the answer… Continue reading »

In 2012, reality TV stars Giuliana and Bill Rancic kicked some infertility ass and got their miracle baby via surrogate; actor Hugh Jackman talked openly about his struggles with infertility; and Jessica Simpson’s uterus is more fertile than my backyard garden.