Let's play, "How many babies could I have had by now?"

It's hard enough seeing everyone around you get pregnant when you're TTC. But it's almost comical when you realize someone's gotten pregnant twice during that time. My husband's younger (much younger) cousin got pregnant, had her baby, and got pregnant again during the 2 years I've been working on getting pregnant for the first time. The hilarious part is that my sister-in-law (who didn't know that I was TTC at the time) told me it took their cousin a while to get pregnant. I think "a while" actually meant 2-3 months. Wowser.

Funny IF'ers

I had to link to Ambivalent Womb's blog because there's a really funny part about acupuncture: More hilarity found here.

Any funny out there?

Nothing too funny has happened recently so I don't have much to write. Anybody got any funny stories or amusing anecdotes to share?

Collection time

We were having my DH's sperm tested about a year ago to rule out his contribution to our fertility problem. The doc (who's Catholic) wanted us to use a condom that has tiny holes in it so that most of the "stuff" is collected, but some gets through so as not to be used as a contraceptive. (Note: I'm not Catholic, but decided to go along with it anyway.) During the act, the condom broke, unbeknownst to either of us. After the deed is done we see that there's nothing collected. Where is it? I stand up and it plops on the floor. Oh. There it is.

Only infertiles...

...buy pregnancy tests in bulk.

I just realized over the weekend how funny it is that I currently have 8 tests in my drawer. It made me think, "Ok, I'm good for a couple months." A couple months! Eight pregnancy tests are more than most people take in their lifetime!

12 hours of fertility

You know what's funny?

I used to take BCP's every morning and then skipped the placebo week altogether. So come Sunday after my period I would start up a new pack. Well, one time about 3 years ago (a year before we started TTC) I forgot to take my pill a particular Sunday morning. Sunday evening my husband and I were...you know, and right in the middle of it I said, "wait! I forgot to take my pill!" I ran to take it and then proceeded with... you know. So I thought that 12 hours of not taking the pill would get me pregnant. I've been off the pill now for 25 months. That's a little bit funny.

4 liters of misery

You know what's not funny? I'm on my 4th bowel prep this year. What is funny is when I hear someone complaining about doing a bowel prep for the first time at age 50. One in 50 years. I'm on number 4 in 2009. Hilarious.

Bad timing

My best friend (who's going through this trying-to-get-pregnant dance, too) was about a week late for her period. Apparently she's never late so of course she thinks she's pregnant but home tests all say negative. She went to the doctor who told her that her endo might be back. She's freaking out because it was a really bad surgery years ago (thought she could have ovarian cancer, etc). The doc sends her to the hospital to get a pregnancy test in the ER. She waits there forever for them to call her. The nurse finally gets to her and the very moment she stands up she feels her period starting. She walks slowly up to the nurse wanting to say, "Nevermind" but it took so much effort to get to this point that she went ahead with the test anyway! Now that's funny. Ok, so funny in a twisted way... but we can laugh about it now :)

What are YOU having?

Several months ago I got a text from my friend who was pregnant at the time. "We're having a bouncing baby boy!" it said. I wanted so much to write back and say, "Yeah? Well, I'm having SURGERY!" But I refrained. She has no idea that I'm subfertile (as my doctor puts it... what a nice guy).

Ok, so...

Here goes. I've never blogged before. But I thought, what can it hurt. I get equally encouraged and frustrated reading others' blogs about infertility. I don't always want to hear the gritty details some of them contain because they're not my details. But then it's so great when someone has a happy ending after such a long bleak struggle which helps me think positive. So I thought, instead of blogging about my stats (the numerous surgeries, dpo's, cycles, treatments, etc), maybe I could just post about the irony and humor found in infertility. Oh it's there. And it's pretty funny, but only to us girls who belong to the secret sisterhood that nobody signed up for. So please, join me in the hilarity.