This post brought to you by my husband Chris. Read more of his writing here. Saturday was a very special day for Risa and me, in which we spent the day remembering and celebrating for two different reasons. We were celebrating the mark of our sixth year since the day…
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Ok. Ok you guys. If I have ever complained about how much it sucks being infertile and doing IUI, IVF, and so on and so forth… It sucks much more to be infertile and be faced with this. What to do? First of all, we have an appointment to conference…
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To those men who: Pat our backs timidly when we go from laughing hysterically one minute, to sobbing the next. It’s the hormones, we swear. Eventually, stop complaining about the constant trips to the andrology lab. Hold our hand during the IUI procedure. The look of death we give you…
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When I was a child, one of our yearly family vacations was to my grandparents’ cabin in northern Minnesota off a dirt road. We’d take walks here, kicking up dirt, eating raspberries right off the bush, and picking wildflowers. We hardly ever saw cars pass by. I didn’t appreciate it…
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Well here I am. 10 days after transfer. That went by fast. I ate my pineapple core. I drank only a little coffee. Tried not to over-analyze anything. The only real symptom I think I had was some weird twingy-pulling really low on my pubic bone. Whatever that may mean.…
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