Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Boston IVF's successful egg-freezing study
Boston IVF today announced a participant in their fully enrolled egg freezing study has become pregnant.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Grocery List: ....reduced fat triscuits, broccoli rabe, soy milk, tomatoes, Häagen-Dazs chocolate/chocolate chip ice cream, whole wheat pasta...
Another excuse for eating ice cream; the regular kind!
We're sorry, but we have to ration your babies...
Britain is planning to regulate the number of embryos implanted through in vitro fertilization after a surge in women having multiple births.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Reading, Puttering, Twisting of bangs
What ties me to babies? Nothing.
What ties me to baby-making challenged? Aha! Everything! Well, professionally everything. I work for an Infertility Pharmacy and this is my latest project.
I am not going to lie, I had misgivings about this.
I could present ALL the relevant information and resources to battle infertility on here, but could I bring empathy and compassion too? Don't get me wrong, I am not sensitivity deficient, but how can I talk about the pain and heartache of wanting and not having babies if I hadn't gone through it?
How can I connect?
So, I've decided to devour books, websites and blogs on Infertility.
I picked Jenny McCarthy's book "Belly Laughs" as my launching pad. She is funny, funny-gross, gross-honest. True, it wasn't a book on someone's saga with infertility, but I wanted to understand what it REALLY feels to be pregnant before I dived into what it feels to be not.
Next is Beverly Barna's "Infertility Sucks!"
Read it. Maybe it's me, maybe it's because I am not the right audience for the book. But what should have taken me a day to read, took 2 weeks. And I still didn't finish the book - just got tired of it. And bored. BB comes across as a no-nonsense woman, brimming with dry wit and sarcasm. And rage. Rage at not being able to conceive. Rage at watching women who have a family. Rage at her insensitive world. Sometimes her 'stick it!' attitude comes across as too laborious and contrived. Loved the haiku at the start of each chapter and sub chapter. And ESPECIALLY loved this one " Darwin's theory says we evolve until perfect. Guess we have it right."
Learning to blog is fun.
Note to self: Trying to tinker around with template HTML, if you are a novice (and a chicken to boot) is disastrous.
And the twisting of bangs?
That's what I do when I am going cross eyed with concentration. Thanks to all the twisting, my bangs now stand parallel to the ground!
What ties me to baby-making challenged? Aha! Everything! Well, professionally everything. I work for an Infertility Pharmacy and this is my latest project.
I am not going to lie, I had misgivings about this.
I could present ALL the relevant information and resources to battle infertility on here, but could I bring empathy and compassion too? Don't get me wrong, I am not sensitivity deficient, but how can I talk about the pain and heartache of wanting and not having babies if I hadn't gone through it?
How can I connect?
So, I've decided to devour books, websites and blogs on Infertility.
I picked Jenny McCarthy's book "Belly Laughs" as my launching pad. She is funny, funny-gross, gross-honest. True, it wasn't a book on someone's saga with infertility, but I wanted to understand what it REALLY feels to be pregnant before I dived into what it feels to be not.
Next is Beverly Barna's "Infertility Sucks!"
Read it. Maybe it's me, maybe it's because I am not the right audience for the book. But what should have taken me a day to read, took 2 weeks. And I still didn't finish the book - just got tired of it. And bored. BB comes across as a no-nonsense woman, brimming with dry wit and sarcasm. And rage. Rage at not being able to conceive. Rage at watching women who have a family. Rage at her insensitive world. Sometimes her 'stick it!' attitude comes across as too laborious and contrived. Loved the haiku at the start of each chapter and sub chapter. And ESPECIALLY loved this one " Darwin's theory says we evolve until perfect. Guess we have it right."
Learning to blog is fun.
Note to self: Trying to tinker around with template HTML, if you are a novice (and a chicken to boot) is disastrous.
And the twisting of bangs?
That's what I do when I am going cross eyed with concentration. Thanks to all the twisting, my bangs now stand parallel to the ground!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Poetic License
What it means to have your body consistently refuse to create and harbor life.
What it means to feel physical pain when you see a playground, a baby in a stroller or even the baby aisle of the supermarket.
What it means to hate your friends who have babies.
What it means to feel physical pain when you see a playground, a baby in a stroller or even the baby aisle of the supermarket.
What it means to hate your friends who have babies.
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