Does anyone else find yourself staring at other people’s children? Sometimes I find myself zeroing in on a chubby baby or an active toddler and zoning out, wishing for my own, fantasizing. I always snap out of it grateful that the Mommy or Daddy present isn’t snatching their kid up and hauling rear away from the crazy staring lady..
Bosom buddies!
I had a funny experience when bringing the sperm sample into the doctor’s office for our first IUI. It was a Saturday morning and I was waiting for the doctor to come and unlock the office. Another woman was there as well but we didn’t really talk about why we were both there. Once the doctor arrived and we all walked in she said, “o.k. ladies hand ‘em over” and at the same time the other women and I pulled our little test tubes full of active sperm out from shirts (where we had the test tubes snuggled between our breasts). We looked at each other and laughed. It was quite a funny scene to be part of!
When your SO asks you if you “took a shot”, he isn’t worried about your tequila habit!
You know your phlebotomist by name… Hey Sue, how did the roses do in the storm last night?
You become superstitious about everything, including all the weird food that is supposed to make you magically pregnant, like pineapple core, flax meal and ice cream.
When you hear someone’s plan to “wait a few months and then have a baby in the summer” you laugh your head off.
You’re annoyed that you were so hellbent on using a condom with your college boyfriend.
You walk into the exam room and say “I’ve emptied my bladder and I’m not allergic to latex”. Hot.
Your Halloween plans don’t involve dressing up as a slutty _____, nor do they involve shepherding children down the street. Instead, you’re looking into perhaps a Vegas weekend or a getaway to a town with no children allowed.
You choose your spring break hotel based on the LACK of children’s activities.
Your husband makes helpful observations about your cervical mucus (ewwww).
When you have track marks on your arms from all the blood being drawn during IVF and IUI cycles.
OR
The fact that you know that the small tank that the cryobanks use to ship sperm fits in a regular rolling suitcase. It makes it slightly less obvious when you walk into the doctor’s office with it but really only slightly.
How about when you attend a wedding and wonder how quickly the newleyweds will become pregnant and think ‘they better not have a child before us’. He He
I cried over something little my MIL said to me this weekend and I was excited to be crying because I thought maybe I was emotional because I could be pregnant!
I was at an apt and my husband happened to be with while doing the ultrasound…. I burst into tears when I saw him starring at my vagina with the doctor….really?? Could he at least have been looking at the ultrasound screen? Sometimes it’s really hard to feel like a woman, but then I remember that I am because a man could never do what us infertile women do- nor would they have the patience for it!
I have pcos, and I’ll never forget one of my ultrasounds, the doctor tried to make my ovaries sound pretty, he said, “well your ovaries look like a beautiful pearl necklace.” I replied, “well isn’t that lovely” (sigh)
I always get excited when I know more than a doctor I’m seeing, or when a friend asks me a question about her period or something strange going on, and I always have the answer! I sometimes feel like i could be a doctor or write a book. I told my husband this one evening, he replied, “and that’s something that you are excited about?” haha…yeah i guess, just trying to look at the bright side!
Hi ladies!
I stumbled upon this Youtube link, “My Aunt Jane Knows MOre than My RE.” It puts all the stupid advice we’ve been told into this folksy-sounding song. It made me laugh and then it made me cry. I’m pasting it here. Hope you like it. Hugs as always to you.
When you purposely dont have sex when you’re ovulating just to see if the b6 you took will actually work to lengthen your luteal phase so you dont go POAS crazy if your period is one day later than usual… :/
Because you can celebrate the new year by making paper chains out of your lab strip ovulation and pregnancy tests. Because you coo at baby new year pictures. Because your new year’s resolution is to be pregnant in the next year (same as last year’s resolution).
Because you think we should legislate against smug Baby on Board car stickers. They are pointless and they always appear when you least need a slap in the face about the fact you are childless. Why do parents deserve special status on the roads anyway? They may have had intercourse 9 months ago but I bet you they won’t have had as much or as frequent intercourse as your average TTC couple in any given month……..
sorry – typo! meant Estradiol
Sorry – typo! Meant raise your Estradiol level.
Nothing confirms your BFN more than bleeding ON the test stick!
Dang, why did my email show up? Naiomi, is it possible to delete the previous post? Thanks, i’m a dummy!
Does anyone else find yourself staring at other people’s children? Sometimes I find myself zeroing in on a chubby baby or an active toddler and zoning out, wishing for my own, fantasizing. I always snap out of it grateful that the Mommy or Daddy present isn’t snatching their kid up and hauling rear away from the crazy staring lady..
Bosom buddies!
I had a funny experience when bringing the sperm sample into the doctor’s office for our first IUI. It was a Saturday morning and I was waiting for the doctor to come and unlock the office. Another woman was there as well but we didn’t really talk about why we were both there. Once the doctor arrived and we all walked in she said, “o.k. ladies hand ‘em over” and at the same time the other women and I pulled our little test tubes full of active sperm out from shirts (where we had the test tubes snuggled between our breasts). We looked at each other and laughed. It was quite a funny scene to be part of!
When your SO asks you if you “took a shot”, he isn’t worried about your tequila habit!
You know your phlebotomist by name… Hey Sue, how did the roses do in the storm last night?
You become superstitious about everything, including all the weird food that is supposed to make you magically pregnant, like pineapple core, flax meal and ice cream.
When you hear someone’s plan to “wait a few months and then have a baby in the summer” you laugh your head off.
You’re annoyed that you were so hellbent on using a condom with your college boyfriend.
You walk into the exam room and say “I’ve emptied my bladder and I’m not allergic to latex”. Hot.
Your Halloween plans don’t involve dressing up as a slutty _____, nor do they involve shepherding children down the street. Instead, you’re looking into perhaps a Vegas weekend or a getaway to a town with no children allowed.
You choose your spring break hotel based on the LACK of children’s activities.
Your husband makes helpful observations about your cervical mucus (ewwww).
When you have track marks on your arms from all the blood being drawn during IVF and IUI cycles.
OR
The fact that you know that the small tank that the cryobanks use to ship sperm fits in a regular rolling suitcase. It makes it slightly less obvious when you walk into the doctor’s office with it but really only slightly.
How about when you attend a wedding and wonder how quickly the newleyweds will become pregnant and think ‘they better not have a child before us’. He He
You consider purchasing a different brand of pregnancy test because the one you’ve been using doesn’t work right.
I actually had this thought the other day and it made me literally LOL. It’s maybe not a new one, but had to share.
Michelle Dugger, at the age of 45, is expecting her 20th child. If that isnt a reason for a bitter laugh, i dont know what is.
Rooni – my sentiments exactly!! What kills me is that her husband said he “didn’t know how it happened”! Uggg
I cried over something little my MIL said to me this weekend and I was excited to be crying because I thought maybe I was emotional because I could be pregnant!
I was at an apt and my husband happened to be with while doing the ultrasound…. I burst into tears when I saw him starring at my vagina with the doctor….really?? Could he at least have been looking at the ultrasound screen? Sometimes it’s really hard to feel like a woman, but then I remember that I am because a man could never do what us infertile women do- nor would they have the patience for it!
I have pcos, and I’ll never forget one of my ultrasounds, the doctor tried to make my ovaries sound pretty, he said, “well your ovaries look like a beautiful pearl necklace.” I replied, “well isn’t that lovely” (sigh)
I always get excited when I know more than a doctor I’m seeing, or when a friend asks me a question about her period or something strange going on, and I always have the answer! I sometimes feel like i could be a doctor or write a book. I told my husband this one evening, he replied, “and that’s something that you are excited about?” haha…yeah i guess, just trying to look at the bright side!
Hi ladies!
I stumbled upon this Youtube link, “My Aunt Jane Knows MOre than My RE.” It puts all the stupid advice we’ve been told into this folksy-sounding song. It made me laugh and then it made me cry. I’m pasting it here. Hope you like it. Hugs as always to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH5ayG1qho&feature=related
Pregnant women are stalking me at the mall! It’s making it hard to focus on my Christmas shopping.
thought you guys might like this!
http://lumalovegettingpregnant.com/infographic/
When you purposely dont have sex when you’re ovulating just to see if the b6 you took will actually work to lengthen your luteal phase so you dont go POAS crazy if your period is one day later than usual… :/
You actually start having doubts if you and your husband are doing “it” right…
Because you can celebrate the new year by making paper chains out of your lab strip ovulation and pregnancy tests. Because you coo at baby new year pictures. Because your new year’s resolution is to be pregnant in the next year (same as last year’s resolution).
2 IUI’s and all I got was this lousy cervical polyp!
Because you think we should legislate against smug Baby on Board car stickers. They are pointless and they always appear when you least need a slap in the face about the fact you are childless. Why do parents deserve special status on the roads anyway? They may have had intercourse 9 months ago but I bet you they won’t have had as much or as frequent intercourse as your average TTC couple in any given month……..