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Last night I dreamed that literally everyone I know had a brand new baby. All my time was spent sending cards, receiving baby announcements and buying baby gifts for other people. I woke up knowing that although it was an exaggeration, it wasn't that far from the reality. It's exactly like all the kids on "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" They all got candy. Charlie Brown got a rock. Me - I'm always getting the rock. It's Halloween and I have PMS. The more time goes on, the more I realize that I don't actually have 'two week waits'. I have a one week wait, and then a week of all the PMS symptoms that a girl can handle; cramps, back ache, breakouts, nightmares, moody, weepy, migraines and retaining water. Yes, I've heard it a hundred times that PMS symptoms are similar to pregnancy symptoms but after going through this for almost two years, THIS is what happens every time, and every time, I get my period. I wish all of us infertiles ...

Ok, let’s be honest: After months upon months of contrived and controlled sex, it makes total sense for it to affect your love life. When you first met your significant other, all you needed was two things: passion and privacy (and maybe not even privacy). In the car, in the hallway, in a bathtub; you couldn’t get enough of each other. It didn’t matter what day of the month it was, what position your cervix was in and lying down for an hour afterwards was by choice and not required. Does this not at all sound familiar to anyone or is it just me? Please tell me it’s not just me! If you’ve been reading my blog regularly, you know sex is an important issue to me. Despite being fertility challenged, I want to feel sexy and I want to have the fun sex my husband and I had when we met. We go through periods of time lately where we get the magic back, but then, thanks to the ‘trying to conceive saga’ we’re currently starring in, those moments fade fast. Let me give you an example. Awhile back,...

Regular readers of my blog know I’ve been periodically posting ‘Trying to Conceive Proverbs’ (Click here: http://the2weekwait.blogspot.com/2010/09/trying-to-conceive-tailored-proverbs.html or here: http://the2weekwait.blogspot.com/2010/10/seize-egg-trying-to-conceive-proverbs.html ). What I do (and I admit, I have fun doing it) is I take a well known proverb and tweak it to fit the pursuit of trying to conceive. An example is " If at first you don't succeed, f*ck, f*ck again. " When putting these lists together, one proverb I came across was, “ Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts. ” This cracked me up as it reminded me of my first reproductive endocrinologist. For those who don’t know, he was the one who missed that I had a huge uterine polyp for what appears to be over a year and… he happens to be Greek. During the time I worked with him, we did three inseminations and one IVF all without knowing there was a polyp “cock blocking” our best fertility assisted efforts. In effe...

When I was single (which felt like forever), I have a partner in crime for all my single adventures. Her name was Stacey. We’d go to bars. We’d go dancing. We’d hang out at coffee shops despite the fact that we both hated coffee. We would be each other’s wing-man (or wing-woman) in the quest to meet a sane, employed man which was not as easy as it may sound. Now, I’m not proud of this but we would often mock people who were in relationships. Let’s be honest: we were jealous. We couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t us staying home ordering in and renting a movie with our “pooh-bear”. Why hadn’t we met anyone? We’re cute! We’re funny! We’ve got a lot to offer! It was frustrating and with every engagement announcement, every bridal shower and every wedding, we'd become more and more snarky and dismissive about the institution. After years of rejection, online dating and having dinner with men who flossed their teeth over dinner, I sort of gave up on ever meeting anyone. The dates I went...

I'm feeling a bit glum today so I figured what could be a better way to cheer myself up then with MORE TTC Proverbs! Enjoy Part 2... and trust me, parts 3 and 4 are not that far behind! Also, in case you missed Trying to Conceive Tailored Proverbs – Part 1, please visit: http://the2weekwait.blogspot.com/2010/09/trying-to-conceive-tailored-proverbs.html Trying to Conceive Proverbs (Part 2) No news is… another month down the drain There's a time and a place for everything, and that time is Cycle Day 10 If patience is a virtue, then I'm Mother "Freaking" Teresa There's no such thing as bad publicity, just negative results There's always more fish in the sea...but healthy follicles are in short supply Good things come to those who wait... and wait, and wait, and wait The bigger they are, the harder they are A good sperm is hard to find Still mucus run deep A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single reproductive endocrinologist’s appointment A prenatal ...

There's this "getting-to-know-you" game that's been making the rounds through BlogWorld and I just got tagged - I'm IT! I’m quite thrilled actually as it gives me a break from lamenting about my TTC efforts for a moment and focus on something way more fun – ME! Thank you to Slackie O. and @socalledttclife for this honor! And if you haven’t checked out their blogs yet, please do! Ms. O’s blog is http://slackieo.blogspot.com/  and @socalledttclife is http://mysocalledttclife.tumblr.com/ Here are the “Getting to Know You” questions: 1) What is your dream occupation? I would have loved to have been a rock star. That’s right. You heard me. Touring the world, having the press wondering which boy toy I was sleeping with that week, singing my ass off in an amazingly sexy outfit, doing interviews, having an entourage, working with my personal trainer and marrying one hot guy after another. Why, oh why did I quit singing lessons!?!? 2) What is the best dish that you can coo...