Thursday, January 24, 2008

You Might Be Infertile If......

If somebody has asked you the date and you said Day 21.
If you have ever counted 1,2,3 after sex, and thrown your ankles above your head for an absurd amount of time.
If you forget the entire world doesn't know what a HCG shot is.
If you have ever had to flip over your pillow because it is tear soaked.
If it has felt strange to not take off your clothes at a doctors appointment.
If you've had three people in a room look at your hoo-haa and it did not make you uncomfortable.
If you circle the days to have sex on your planner.
If you have ever seen your internal organs on a plasma TV. (At least once or sometimes twice a month!)
If the sound of an infant's cry is the equivalent to pure torture.
If you've put your feet up in stirrups more times than you've had sex in a week.
If you've played the "I'll be pregnant by then" game for longer than a year.
If you've ever been caught staring longingly at a pregnant woman's belly.
If you feel the need to check your underwear more times in an hour than Britney gets photographed.
If hearing the words "baby dust" sends you into a raging tizzy.
If you know more about your reproductive organs and the female body than all of your girlfriends combined.
If getting pregnant doesn't technically need to involve sex.
If you measure your life in two week increments.
If you avoid alcohol, smoking, hot baths, hot tubs, saunas, caffeine, and question "When are you going to have children?" like the plague.
If you can't remember life before prenatal vitamins.
If you glare at parents who don't truly appreciate their children, and scowl at the ones who complain.
If you actually hate one of your body parts.
If your husband has gotten some mid-morning delight, and it wasn't with you, or in your bedroom.
If you know how thick your uterus is, how many sperm your husband has, and how many follicles you have.
If you find it a miracle that people somehow manage to get pregnant.
If you have had to leave a movie theater or change the TV station.
If you have ever yelled at Grey's Anatomy or ER for completely misrepresenting the truth.
If you have ever wondered if you are actually having sex wrong.
If the word cycling has nothing to do with riding a bike.
If you could swear that anybody standing within a hundred feet could hear your biological clock ticking.
If two weeks out of the month your spouse treats you like you are made of glass.
If sometimes when people talk about their children you are reduced to tears.
If you've ever considered hugging a pregnant woman just so a bit of that "something" would rub off on you.
If birthdays, holidays, and special events are just one more reminder that you have one less year to cross the reproductive finish line.
If you can tell a 23 gauge and a 25 gauge needle apart at 40 paces.
If you've gone to bed at 12 midnight during the work week, just to do a shot, and it wasn't the alcoholic variety.
If you feel a very real physical pain in your chest when thinking about the worst case scenario.

Sorry for the rant....
Can you tell I just got back from my 6th doctors appointment since the New Year and I am feeling a little frustrated????????

4 comments:

Emily said...

I don't know what caused this rant but I'm sorry for whatever it is.

You know I can relate to all of these points and I'm more than happy to cry, pray and rant with you anytime.

Ginny said...

Sorry Jenny :( I could say more, but you have already heard it all.....just know I am thinking of you, and I am here for you!

Anonymous said...

Jenny,

I'm so sorry. I'll be praying for you.

Kris said...

*hugs*

you know you can call me anytime. I'll be praying for you both.