My Infertility Story
This page is my response to all of the wonderful support, curiosity and questions that have brought infertile women, couples, or just plain old people sensitive to the subject. It is a story that has a beginning, and a middle, but likely no end.
This page will be under continual construction. The entries appear below in the order that they were published, though they often speak of emotions relating to past events so are evidently not necessarily chronological.
Enjoy, comment, email me, lurk… make yourself at home and do whatever you like. Just please, don’t tell me that if I stop thinking about it/adopt/just relax I’ll get preggers. Dealio?
The exams and the road to trying to figure out why we got The Inferts:
My first attempt at an HSG test
My contemplating the beginning of testing to see why preggers just wasn’t happening
My first post-coital exam experience
My miscarriage, my pregnant friend
My second attempt at an HSG test
My having had it with recreational sex
IUI #1:
My preparing for a first insemination
My obsessive pregnancy-testing meltdown
Calling it quits:
Take 2, one year later :
My wondering if I can give it a go again
My thankfulness for a leave of absence, and the courage to try again
My letter to Infertility, personified
My ‘pregnancy scare’ that turned out to be a bladder infectioncombined with a late period. Eergh.
IUI #2 :
My BFN, and not wanting to babysit, and a lot of other things
Laparoscopy :
My preparing for my surgery, and various tidbits
My post-lap report, my uncle, my senile grandmother and my 46 day cycle
IVF#1 :
My beginning of my first IVF cycle by shooting up Lupron
My Crazy, thank you dearly, Lupron
My obsessing over Lupron side effects and it bringing out the beotch
My BFP (Barely Frecking Positive)
My second beta… and chemical pregnancy
Dealing with our very early loss :
