Want a baby? First you have to inject yourself with numerous needles.

I have a schedule. A baby-making schedule. Yes, my friends, this is a baby-making schedule.  Not very romantic, doesn’t include a whole lot of sex (in fact, there is actually a stoppage of the said sex on a certain date), and there is a shit-ton of needles involved, but this…

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In which we kick the insurance company’s ass

I’ve had an emotional few days dealing with this insurance issue. Thursday, I came home from work and Chris, who has been on vacation this week, told me he talked to another rep from our insurance company, Bev.  This was because after talking to Puppy Killer, he had called the…

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Insurance companies: Making dreams come true…when they feel like it

Ha ha ok funny story.  Remember how I wrote yesterday about fertility coverage and how all y’all were commenting and telling me how lucky I am, how great it is to have fertility coverage? Hold on, let me just put down this crossbow here for a second.  (Don’t want to…

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Where has all the money gone? Oh yes, it went to making a baby.

IVF. Well, I didn’t see myself ever having to go through this.  But, having said that… I’ve never seen this movie. I’m lying.  I have. The IVF coordinator finally got a hold of me.  I emailed her early Friday and she emailed back and said she had been out sick. …

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Thoughts on motherhood

I had a lot of qualms about this post.  I have already seen some posts on Facebook infertility groups saying how much they hate Mother’s Day and how excluded they feel. “Mother’s Day reminds me of how I am not a mother yet, and everyone has to rub it in…

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