Max was born from one testicle

Lance Armstrong’s fourth baby was born yesterday and he was named Max Armstrong (cute name). Lance was thought to be sterile because of his cancer treatments which supposedly killed his ability to have children but somehow he knocked up his girlfriend Anna Hansen. His three other children were born via IVF with his ex-wife Kristen.
So [...]

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Fertility Ring

My sister in law presented me with this fertility ring that she wore when she wanted to get pregnant. She’s since then passed it on to three other girls who have all gone on to become pregnant. The ring is a turquoise colored Egyptian scarab beetle. I looked it up on the internet to find [...]

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Angry at the world

Last night, my husband told me to stop being so angry. He said, “can’t you be happy again? I hate that you are so angry at the world.” It started because he wants to go camping with a few of our friends. Both couples have children and I don’t want to go. I can’t think [...]

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Laparoscopy? To Do or Not To Do…

I have the next month off. So of course, me, being unable to “relax”, I start thinking about the possibility of fitting in a lap this cycle.
The thing is…I think I have endometriosis. I have no proof of that except my gut instinct and because I have some of those symptoms that are listed in [...]

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CD12: HCG shot

I did it. I gave myself a shot. I just squeeeeeezed the muffin top and stuck the needle in and pushed. It wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be. I’d  spent the hour or two before getting all nervous and freaked out about it. But when it was all over and done, it [...]

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my first visit with the RE

yesterday was our first appointment with the reproductive endocrinologist. a friend asked me if i was excited and i really wasn’t sure. i guess i felt “excited” in the sense that we’re doing something about the issue and being active about it makes me feel better. but then again, who knew that i would have [...]

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the real story

so i got my house guest to tell all last night and it was really good for us. i think this christmas could be nice after all. she’s a very private person so naturally it was hard for her to tell me but when i told her that we were having problems conceiving she broke [...]

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a success story is staying at my house for christmas

last night a couple who are friends of my husband’s came to stay at our house for christmas. they got married a couple days before we did, almost exactly a year ago but we suspect that they had started ttc even a few months before the wedding. just a month ago when we visited them, [...]

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i’m complaining

it’s strange. because you’d think that a woman that has once been infertile but now pregnant would remember what it felt like when she was once infertile. i think i’ve mentioned before. two women that i work with are preggers. i went to lunch with them today (with another girl) and holy shit. all we [...]

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