I’ve already started buying baby stuff. Changing table, rocker, a few clothing items, baptismal gown, etc. I even purchased 2 extra stockings last Christmas so when we have children all the stockings will match. I’m losing it!!
[me, in my head: " oh ya know, growing a test tube baby,- what about you?"]
or how about,
[me, in my head: "just crying hysterically every day because my test tube babies won't grow, you?"]
The oportunity to try out different medication meant for menopaus, way befor you hit it, and finding out which one you prefer to use in 20-25 years time.
The mental image of my mothers raction when telling her that she´s not in any position to complain about just getting fat b/c I have at least 6-7 side effects more than here on the same drug.
I supervise the teenaged girls in my church congregation. One evening for an activity we were playing ‘Life’. When I finally landed (first!) on the ‘baby’ space midway through the game I actually yelled out ‘Suck it, infertiles!’ at the other twelve-year olds around the table! Yeesh…
You’re at the end of another 2ww, planning on testing the next day, convinced you’ll see two lines. The phone rings, it’s your about-to-divorce friend calling to tell you there is a “bump” in her plans to leave her husband. Oops. You hang up the phone, go to the bathroom and surprise, AF!
My MIL tells me I need to buy sexier lingerie to wear to bed. I guess that’ll do the trick.
Your friends and cousins tell you that you should be happy you haven’t gotten pregnant because their kids are driving them insane. I’d rather have children that are driving me up the wall than no children at all.
Thanks for delivering your baby at the same hospital my infertility endocrinologist’s office is at. Killing two birds with one stone.
Your period is late, but the stick and blood tests are definitely negative. You can’t wait for your period to start, ironically, just so you can get on with the next cycle of treatment.
I feel so sorry for my very fertile sister-in-law who was sad that she couldn’t delivery her second baby (a “happy accident”al pregnancy) vaginally. NOT!
when a co-worker who gets mad at you because she wants you to get stuff done FOR her before 5pm ….because she has to leave to pick up her son. And then goes on and screams (ok probably just in my head it was a scream) “you don’t understand you don’t have a son!!”
My response.. my son is costing me $20k up front, you can have your work by 7pm thanks…tra lala walk away and cry in the bathroom
You don’t care about using the cloth or closing the drapes when spreading your legs on a magical wand apointment. Everyone at the office have seen your hoo ha a number og times anyway. You might invite the elevator guy to join you next time, just so he won’t fell left out
I get to play connect the dots on my tummy thanks to all the FSH injections!!!
And I bet I’m not the only one who does this….each month when AF starts I count how many tampons I have left and think, “ah that’s just enough to get me through this AF and THEN maybe I won’t need them ANYMORE!” Or in the same kind of scenario…you use your last tampon at the end of your period and think how perfect it would be if you were pregnant b/c then you will have zero tampons going to waste at home and won’t have to buy another box! You even stoop so low as to use a jumbo bulky pad you find laying around for the very end of your period, because why buy a whole new box of tampons when you won’t need them next month right? LOL
@Cherbear — you are definitely not the only one who hopes this box of tampons is the last! While shopping for a friend’s baby shower, I noticed a whole aisle of feminine products (I guess for the bleeding after pregnancy? I wouldn’t know, never having given birth) so now I buy boxes of pads, thinking, Well I’ll use these after I have my baby…
Infertility does wonders for romance, cause there’s nothing better than reminding your DH:
“Now honey, we’re headed into my fertility window (for the 14th time), so please refrain from masturbating for the next 12 days. Oh, and just as a reminder, here’s our schedule of the days that we will be having sex. Okay? Have a great day at work!”
I think that women who bring their babies to the infertility doctor are showing off. I equal parts loath them (they obviously weren’t infertile “enough”, and obviously they aren’t good mothers–why else would you bring your baby to a place they were likely to be snatched), but on the other hand I’M SO INTRIGUED. How many iuis did they have, clomid iui or did they have injectables, ivf? Tell me how you got that baby and WHY I DON’T HAVE ONE YET!
Apparently at my workplace I don’t have a “family” because I don’t have kids. I hear “Chrisi can work lake tomorrow night because Amanda has a “family” & Chrisi doesn’t” “Oh Chrisi, I have a “family” I can’t be expected to be on time in the morning” “You don’t understand because you don’t have a “family” I didn’t realize that even thou my husband and I have: Parents, Sisters, Brothers, Nieces, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, loads of cousins and a freaking cat that because I don’t have a baby i don’t have a “family”.
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i think it’s funny when people who have never even liked other people’s babies, never held a baby b/c they might “catch” baby fever, or hated to attend “other people’s showers, they are so boring”, all of the sudden get pregnant and now they are making comments about people’s kids on facebook, “this is one cute kid!” and telling YOU about their pregnancy symptoms and how they had to give up alcohol and coffee and it was a bitch, and now love to run up and grab other people’s babies….it kind of gives me morning sickness…..oh wait. i’m not pregnant, it’s just that girl over there who thought for the past 10 years that babies should be seen and not heard…..ugh.
I blame our infertility on our past lives! I was a Warrior Queen – strong, beautiful, and smart while my husband was a just a little Herman. I the Warrior Queen had to safe the little Herman from many dangers. So, after 200 years we have meet again! And unfortunately my Warrior Queen DNA can not be mixed with the little Herman’s DNA. However, there is an exception to this rule – if a child is to be conceived it will have 100% Warrior DNA.
I started taking a different route to work to avoid seeing the Babies-R-Us! But somedays, I have the strongest urge to dress in ninja gear and creap up and down the aisles of rubber nipples, breast pumps, diaper genies and changing tables just to see what new convienences are available that I never would have known about if my baby plans had worked out. And woe be it to my DH if we have to go in for a baby shower gift. It’s going to be a rough night, but not before the trip to babyland turns into an all day adventure of ooohing and awwwing It takes all I have not to grab a price gun from a happy couple’s hands and start a registry for our embryos.
I feel so normal reading these things I feel the same way and in my regular life I feel like crying all the time because I feel like I am the only one left with no baby
When after a whole year of being silent you decide to come out of the closet with your infertility, and the first woman you tell in casual conversation responds like you said you have stage 4 cancer and 2 weeks to live.
Then you realize maybe the reason you are so depressed is because society treats infertile women like they are 1988 HIV patients. We are scary to think about, a better left ignored.
Because you’ve bought two cars in preparation for your future children.
When you bought the first one, you were newly out of college and engaged, and planning on starting a family in the near future. So a cute sports car just wasn’t going to work … it’s a reliable Toyota sedan for you, my friend! Oooh, look at that safety rating! And the built-in sun shades!
Seven years and one broken engagement later, you’re still child-less. But at least you’re married and have a job and ready – really, really ready – to have a family. So when it’s time to buy a new car, you upgrade to a snappy crossover vehicle. Your future children will be impressed by its all-wheel-drive capabilities and traction control to keep them safe! And look at the size of that trunk to carry all that baby stuff!
Two years, one testicular cancer diagnosis, and two failed IUI treatments later, you’re wondering why the hell you bothered to buy a car with more than two seats.
If you would have told me a year ago, that this month I would have a 2 day stay in the hospital where the doctors would “deliver” something from my uterus, and I would be put on bedrest, and I would get lots of balloons, and flowers, and meals….I would have been overjoyed thinking that our dream had finally come true.
Instead…last week during surgery, my RE was unable to deliver the massive fibroid tumor that is too intertwined with my uterus, and seems to be making it impossible for any fetus to thrive in there. there is still a chance we can get pregnant according to our RE, but if it wasn’t working before, not sure how a failed surgery changes that. basically all we learned from the surgery is that at some point in the future I will be in need of a hysterectomy.
Really sucks to see a five inch incision scar across your belly every morning that you wish was a c-section scar. Trying to find a reason to laugh, but quite frankly laughing after this surgery hurts..literally
You get the run-around from the IVF clinic but you can’t complain because they are supposedly helping you conceive.
So no matter how many times you have to call them, how many times they don’t get back to you or put you on hold or transfer you to others, no matter how long your sit around in their waiting room, and how many hours you have to take off work – you grit your teeth and smile.
Any other institution – banks, insurance companies – you wouldn’t stand for poor treatment, inefficient procedures or incompetent staff. But the IVF clinic, it’s another beast entirely.
You just don’t want to take the risk that the universe will hear you complain, because if you complain it might be bad karma and result in “no baby for you!” (like the soup nazi from Seinfeld).
Last night I had a dream about another man. Yes someone other than my husband and he was shocked when I told him that I had a dream about another man. Well the other man was my REI doctor (yes you read that right my doctor now I cant even get away from thinking about it he is coming into my dreams). Well in the dream we were playing poker and we were talking about if this IUI didn’t work we were going to move on to IVF. He was reassuring me that if it came down to IVF he would make it work not matter what. I wish in real life my doctor was so sure.
I think this is a sign that you have been trying for a very long time esp if my doctor is tracking me down in my dreams..lol
You know SO much about TTC now, that you could write a book. And when fertiles have questions (because it just so happens to be 3 months since starting TTC and they are ‘worried’) then you can’t really tell them to try temperature charting or anything like that because then they’d wonder why you know about it!
Someone at work actually walked around with her blue dye HPT one day, asking if it was positive. I wanted to say — get the hell out FIRST OF ALL…and second of all, get a pink dye test!! (Oh by the way, she was indeed pregnant. lucky her)
B/c I spent over $15,000 on birth control pills for over 11 years trying not to get pregnant. Instead, I should have been saving that money for when I was ready to get pregnant!!!!
I was going to say, that’s some expensive birth control! Now after the edit, I’ll say you got a good deal. I spent nearly $3000 over the course of 7 years on the pill. What a waste! (Good suggestion btw!)
Okay, what is up with this latest trend of prego women wearing a belt right underneath their huge boobs and just above their swelling belly? Are they trying to really make sure we know they are pregnant? Cause I don’t see any purpose for that belt and it doesn’t really LOOK GOOD… We know you are pregnant ladies- don’t need to rub it in…
I always have to laugh that I need the BCP to start my cycle of IVF… doesn’t quite seem right that I need to go on BCP to try to get pregnant. Here we always thought they were to prevent pregnancy.
because once you finally do get your IVF BFP, you google “how soon after I have a baby can I do IVF?” and start mentally counting a year ahead of time to pick out a schedule!
Positive thinking cures infertility:
Apparently we all have just not been thinking positive enough. “Just imagine it happening”….OH…..well geeze had I known that’s all it took I would have been pregnant years ago! Don’t you love when people “try” to help with their positive words of encouragement?
“Invision the sperm and the egg getting together”. Eureka! That MUST be what I’m doing wrong!!
I wrote this post a couple days ago, and everyone’s favorite was #5- when infertiles decorate with scary things for halloween, they put out pregnancy tests and thermometers and ovulation monitors instead of witches and spiders and zombies!!!
instead of pens, fertility clinics should hand out OPKs and HPTs. I don’t need a pen that I don’t want to accidentally pull out of my purse in front of people I barely know. At least an pee stick will be used.
We don’t have to complain about our children each time daylights saving changes. Have you noticed how on FB there are a plethora of moms complaining about their children now that Daylights Savings has kicked in? I didn’t know it was a holiday. I have to refrain from making snarky comments by biting my fingers!
….when a friend posts an article on FB from a newspaper about a response to why mothers have no time for friends with no kids and someone also comments “being a stay at home mom is hard.” Kiss my @#$ after I inject it with hormones.
I love how everyone references their fur babies and fur families. My husband and I recently inherited my grandfathers cat when he passed away as no one wanted him and he was might end up at the pound (we already had two cats and a dog) and all I have been hearing since is…….. another cat? do you really need need another animal? Don’t you think you have enough? imagine if you could use this for fertiles…. another kid? really? don’t you think the two you complain about all the time are enough? what your pregnant again?
I’m sure it is hard on you that you don’t have a baby bump yet. We can only hope that the ultrasound pics of your healthy baby girl will help you through this difficult time. Are you kidding me???!!!!!!
When I was explaining to my OH-SO-FERTILE sister about how time consuming and stressful my IVF was and how lucky she was to get pregnant on the FIRST TRY, she replied with “well, you can’t really be jealous of me. If your husband didn’t have sperm problems you would get pregnant right away too… I could NEVER do that anyway if my husband had sperm problems.” So I guess her plan would be to leave her husband…I wonder if HE knows that.
What about a holiday survival guide? I was definitely that crazy woman at the mall yesterday. I saw Santa and he waved and I had to run into the nearest store because I was in tears. It’s getting ridiculous.
your cousin who is only 23 years old who got knocked up “on purpose” at 21 yrs old with her NOW husband…because he was duped..you get a TEXT from HIM finding out she was pregnant. Now the baby is 2 and you get another TEXT that they are pregnant, haven’t even gone to the effing DOCTOR yet, but they will “confirm in 3 weeks”…according to facebook. So they tell the WHOLE world on the day of her positive pregnancy test BOTH times. They are BOTH in school and she makes minimum wage making cakes part-time. But we are supposed to be happy for them?!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been trying for 2 years. And to top it off this week is our 4th wedding anniversary. Their reasoning for having another child when they are both in school “we don’t want our kids to be too far apart in age and ___ is almost 3″. Oh wow, shouldn’t we ALL have it that easy to plan our children in this way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how about the friend who’s husband wants a baby but she doesn’t so she asks you (since you know about these things) “how will I know when I’m ovulating so I can avoid doing it at that time?”
BTW she must have miscalculated cause she was pregnant a few months later.
Your family and friends ask you what you want for Christmas and the only things that come to mind are: perhaps ovulation test strips; do you think the Reproductive Endocrinology Specialists sell gift cards around the holiday season; and Clomid would make a fantastic stocking stuffer.
I’ve already started buying baby stuff. Changing table, rocker, a few clothing items, baptismal gown, etc. I even purchased 2 extra stockings last Christmas so when we have children all the stockings will match. I’m losing it!!
I’m really tired of seeing “First Day Of School Pics” on Facebook and seeing comments about how their moms are so sad and trying to hold it together.
Can 5 year old frozen embryos take their first day of school pics?
“what are you working on this week?”
[me, in my head: " oh ya know, growing a test tube baby,- what about you?"]
or how about,
[me, in my head: "just crying hysterically every day because my test tube babies won't grow, you?"]
My cat is cuter than your baby! HA take that fertile!!
The oportunity to try out different medication meant for menopaus, way befor you hit it, and finding out which one you prefer to use in 20-25 years time.
The mental image of my mothers raction when telling her that she´s not in any position to complain about just getting fat b/c I have at least 6-7 side effects more than here on the same drug.
I supervise the teenaged girls in my church congregation. One evening for an activity we were playing ‘Life’. When I finally landed (first!) on the ‘baby’ space midway through the game I actually yelled out ‘Suck it, infertiles!’ at the other twelve-year olds around the table! Yeesh…
You’re at the end of another 2ww, planning on testing the next day, convinced you’ll see two lines. The phone rings, it’s your about-to-divorce friend calling to tell you there is a “bump” in her plans to leave her husband. Oops. You hang up the phone, go to the bathroom and surprise, AF!
My MIL tells me I need to buy sexier lingerie to wear to bed. I guess that’ll do the trick.
Your friends and cousins tell you that you should be happy you haven’t gotten pregnant because their kids are driving them insane. I’d rather have children that are driving me up the wall than no children at all.
Thanks for delivering your baby at the same hospital my infertility endocrinologist’s office is at. Killing two birds with one stone.
Your period is late, but the stick and blood tests are definitely negative. You can’t wait for your period to start, ironically, just so you can get on with the next cycle of treatment.
I feel so sorry for my very fertile sister-in-law who was sad that she couldn’t delivery her second baby (a “happy accident”al pregnancy) vaginally. NOT!
We research the meaning of our pregnancy dreams in the dream dictionary. LOL!
when a co-worker who gets mad at you because she wants you to get stuff done FOR her before 5pm ….because she has to leave to pick up her son. And then goes on and screams (ok probably just in my head it was a scream) “you don’t understand you don’t have a son!!”
My response.. my son is costing me $20k up front, you can have your work by 7pm thanks…tra lala walk away and cry in the bathroom
You don’t care about using the cloth or closing the drapes when spreading your legs on a magical wand apointment. Everyone at the office have seen your hoo ha a number og times anyway. You might invite the elevator guy to join you next time, just so he won’t fell left out
Reason # ?..
I get to play connect the dots on my tummy thanks to all the FSH injections!!!
And I bet I’m not the only one who does this….each month when AF starts I count how many tampons I have left and think, “ah that’s just enough to get me through this AF and THEN maybe I won’t need them ANYMORE!” Or in the same kind of scenario…you use your last tampon at the end of your period and think how perfect it would be if you were pregnant b/c then you will have zero tampons going to waste at home and won’t have to buy another box! You even stoop so low as to use a jumbo bulky pad you find laying around for the very end of your period, because why buy a whole new box of tampons when you won’t need them next month right? LOL
(for the men) you’ve diddled yourself so many times in the back room that you’ve become a pornography connoisseur.
@Cherbear — you are definitely not the only one who hopes this box of tampons is the last! While shopping for a friend’s baby shower, I noticed a whole aisle of feminine products (I guess for the bleeding after pregnancy? I wouldn’t know, never having given birth) so now I buy boxes of pads, thinking, Well I’ll use these after I have my baby…
Infertility does wonders for romance, cause there’s nothing better than reminding your DH:
“Now honey, we’re headed into my fertility window (for the 14th time), so please refrain from masturbating for the next 12 days. Oh, and just as a reminder, here’s our schedule of the days that we will be having sex. Okay? Have a great day at work!”
I think that women who bring their babies to the infertility doctor are showing off. I equal parts loath them (they obviously weren’t infertile “enough”, and obviously they aren’t good mothers–why else would you bring your baby to a place they were likely to be snatched), but on the other hand I’M SO INTRIGUED. How many iuis did they have, clomid iui or did they have injectables, ivf? Tell me how you got that baby and WHY I DON’T HAVE ONE YET!
Kim I think the exact same thing when I see women with children/babies at the RE’s office!!
Apparently at my workplace I don’t have a “family” because I don’t have kids. I hear “Chrisi can work lake tomorrow night because Amanda has a “family” & Chrisi doesn’t” “Oh Chrisi, I have a “family” I can’t be expected to be on time in the morning” “You don’t understand because you don’t have a “family” I didn’t realize that even thou my husband and I have: Parents, Sisters, Brothers, Nieces, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, loads of cousins and a freaking cat that because I don’t have a baby i don’t have a “family”.
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i think it’s funny when people who have never even liked other people’s babies, never held a baby b/c they might “catch” baby fever, or hated to attend “other people’s showers, they are so boring”, all of the sudden get pregnant and now they are making comments about people’s kids on facebook, “this is one cute kid!” and telling YOU about their pregnancy symptoms and how they had to give up alcohol and coffee and it was a bitch, and now love to run up and grab other people’s babies….it kind of gives me morning sickness…..oh wait. i’m not pregnant, it’s just that girl over there who thought for the past 10 years that babies should be seen and not heard…..ugh.
I blame our infertility on our past lives! I was a Warrior Queen – strong, beautiful, and smart while my husband was a just a little Herman. I the Warrior Queen had to safe the little Herman from many dangers. So, after 200 years we have meet again! And unfortunately my Warrior Queen DNA can not be mixed with the little Herman’s DNA. However, there is an exception to this rule – if a child is to be conceived it will have 100% Warrior DNA.
I started taking a different route to work to avoid seeing the Babies-R-Us! But somedays, I have the strongest urge to dress in ninja gear and creap up and down the aisles of rubber nipples, breast pumps, diaper genies and changing tables just to see what new convienences are available that I never would have known about if my baby plans had worked out. And woe be it to my DH if we have to go in for a baby shower gift. It’s going to be a rough night, but not before the trip to babyland turns into an all day adventure of ooohing and awwwing
It takes all I have not to grab a price gun from a happy couple’s hands and start a registry for our embryos.
I feel so normal reading these things I feel the same way and in my regular life I feel like crying all the time because I feel like I am the only one left with no baby
When after a whole year of being silent you decide to come out of the closet with your infertility, and the first woman you tell in casual conversation responds like you said you have stage 4 cancer and 2 weeks to live.
Then you realize maybe the reason you are so depressed is because society treats infertile women like they are 1988 HIV patients. We are scary to think about, a better left ignored.
Because you’ve bought two cars in preparation for your future children.
When you bought the first one, you were newly out of college and engaged, and planning on starting a family in the near future. So a cute sports car just wasn’t going to work … it’s a reliable Toyota sedan for you, my friend! Oooh, look at that safety rating! And the built-in sun shades!
Seven years and one broken engagement later, you’re still child-less. But at least you’re married and have a job and ready – really, really ready – to have a family. So when it’s time to buy a new car, you upgrade to a snappy crossover vehicle. Your future children will be impressed by its all-wheel-drive capabilities and traction control to keep them safe! And look at the size of that trunk to carry all that baby stuff!
Two years, one testicular cancer diagnosis, and two failed IUI treatments later, you’re wondering why the hell you bothered to buy a car with more than two seats.
If you would have told me a year ago, that this month I would have a 2 day stay in the hospital where the doctors would “deliver” something from my uterus, and I would be put on bedrest, and I would get lots of balloons, and flowers, and meals….I would have been overjoyed thinking that our dream had finally come true.
Instead…last week during surgery, my RE was unable to deliver the massive fibroid tumor that is too intertwined with my uterus, and seems to be making it impossible for any fetus to thrive in there. there is still a chance we can get pregnant according to our RE, but if it wasn’t working before, not sure how a failed surgery changes that. basically all we learned from the surgery is that at some point in the future I will be in need of a hysterectomy.
Really sucks to see a five inch incision scar across your belly every morning that you wish was a c-section scar. Trying to find a reason to laugh, but quite frankly laughing after this surgery hurts..literally
You get the run-around from the IVF clinic but you can’t complain because they are supposedly helping you conceive.
So no matter how many times you have to call them, how many times they don’t get back to you or put you on hold or transfer you to others, no matter how long your sit around in their waiting room, and how many hours you have to take off work – you grit your teeth and smile.
Any other institution – banks, insurance companies – you wouldn’t stand for poor treatment, inefficient procedures or incompetent staff. But the IVF clinic, it’s another beast entirely.
You just don’t want to take the risk that the universe will hear you complain, because if you complain it might be bad karma and result in “no baby for you!” (like the soup nazi from Seinfeld).
Last night I had a dream about another man. Yes someone other than my husband and he was shocked when I told him that I had a dream about another man. Well the other man was my REI doctor (yes you read that right my doctor now I cant even get away from thinking about it he is coming into my dreams). Well in the dream we were playing poker and we were talking about if this IUI didn’t work we were going to move on to IVF. He was reassuring me that if it came down to IVF he would make it work not matter what. I wish in real life my doctor was so sure.
I think this is a sign that you have been trying for a very long time esp if my doctor is tracking me down in my dreams..lol
You know SO much about TTC now, that you could write a book. And when fertiles have questions (because it just so happens to be 3 months since starting TTC and they are ‘worried’) then you can’t really tell them to try temperature charting or anything like that because then they’d wonder why you know about it!
Someone at work actually walked around with her blue dye HPT one day, asking if it was positive. I wanted to say — get the hell out FIRST OF ALL…and second of all, get a pink dye test!! (Oh by the way, she was indeed pregnant. lucky her)
B/c I spent over $15,000 on birth control pills for over 11 years trying not to get pregnant. Instead, I should have been saving that money for when I was ready to get pregnant!!!!
Oops. . .I mean $1,500, not $15,000.
I was going to say, that’s some expensive birth control! Now after the edit, I’ll say you got a good deal. I spent nearly $3000 over the course of 7 years on the pill. What a waste! (Good suggestion btw!)
Okay, what is up with this latest trend of prego women wearing a belt right underneath their huge boobs and just above their swelling belly? Are they trying to really make sure we know they are pregnant? Cause I don’t see any purpose for that belt and it doesn’t really LOOK GOOD… We know you are pregnant ladies- don’t need to rub it in…
I always have to laugh that I need the BCP to start my cycle of IVF… doesn’t quite seem right that I need to go on BCP to try to get pregnant. Here we always thought they were to prevent pregnancy.
because once you finally do get your IVF BFP, you google “how soon after I have a baby can I do IVF?” and start mentally counting a year ahead of time to pick out a schedule!
Positive thinking cures infertility:
Apparently we all have just not been thinking positive enough. “Just imagine it happening”….OH…..well geeze had I known that’s all it took I would have been pregnant years ago! Don’t you love when people “try” to help with their positive words of encouragement?
“Invision the sperm and the egg getting together”. Eureka! That MUST be what I’m doing wrong!!
I wrote this post a couple days ago, and everyone’s favorite was #5- when infertiles decorate with scary things for halloween, they put out pregnancy tests and thermometers and ovulation monitors instead of witches and spiders and zombies!!!
instead of pens, fertility clinics should hand out OPKs and HPTs. I don’t need a pen that I don’t want to accidentally pull out of my purse in front of people I barely know. At least an pee stick will be used.
Hubby have trouble finishing on top? Just tape a pic from a Victoria’s Secret catalogue on the wall. Who says the romance is dead?
We don’t have to complain about our children each time daylights saving changes. Have you noticed how on FB there are a plethora of moms complaining about their children now that Daylights Savings has kicked in? I didn’t know it was a holiday. I have to refrain from making snarky comments by biting my fingers!
….when a friend posts an article on FB from a newspaper about a response to why mothers have no time for friends with no kids and someone also comments “being a stay at home mom is hard.” Kiss my @#$ after I inject it with hormones.
I love how everyone references their fur babies and fur families. My husband and I recently inherited my grandfathers cat when he passed away as no one wanted him and he was might end up at the pound (we already had two cats and a dog) and all I have been hearing since is…….. another cat? do you really need need another animal? Don’t you think you have enough? imagine if you could use this for fertiles…. another kid? really? don’t you think the two you complain about all the time are enough? what your pregnant again?
The waiter asked me how I wanted my eggs. I replied, “Fertilized and Implanted, Please”.
I’m sure it is hard on you that you don’t have a baby bump yet. We can only hope that the ultrasound pics of your healthy baby girl will help you through this difficult time. Are you kidding me???!!!!!!
When I was explaining to my OH-SO-FERTILE sister about how time consuming and stressful my IVF was and how lucky she was to get pregnant on the FIRST TRY, she replied with “well, you can’t really be jealous of me. If your husband didn’t have sperm problems you would get pregnant right away too… I could NEVER do that anyway if my husband had sperm problems.” So I guess her plan would be to leave her husband…I wonder if HE knows that.
What about a holiday survival guide? I was definitely that crazy woman at the mall yesterday. I saw Santa and he waved and I had to run into the nearest store because I was in tears. It’s getting ridiculous.
your cousin who is only 23 years old who got knocked up “on purpose” at 21 yrs old with her NOW husband…because he was duped..you get a TEXT from HIM finding out she was pregnant. Now the baby is 2 and you get another TEXT that they are pregnant, haven’t even gone to the effing DOCTOR yet, but they will “confirm in 3 weeks”…according to facebook. So they tell the WHOLE world on the day of her positive pregnancy test BOTH times. They are BOTH in school and she makes minimum wage making cakes part-time. But we are supposed to be happy for them?!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been trying for 2 years. And to top it off this week is our 4th wedding anniversary. Their reasoning for having another child when they are both in school “we don’t want our kids to be too far apart in age and ___ is almost 3″. Oh wow, shouldn’t we ALL have it that easy to plan our children in this way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how about the friend who’s husband wants a baby but she doesn’t so she asks you (since you know about these things) “how will I know when I’m ovulating so I can avoid doing it at that time?”
BTW she must have miscalculated cause she was pregnant a few months later.
Your family and friends ask you what you want for Christmas and the only things that come to mind are: perhaps ovulation test strips; do you think the Reproductive Endocrinology Specialists sell gift cards around the holiday season; and Clomid would make a fantastic stocking stuffer.