Now appearing in my shoes: AnnaRay
AR has not stopped giving me a hard time about my reaction to our first failed attempt to conceive three years ago. Until now, that is.
Of course, I knew at the time it was ridiculous for me to worry I was infertile after one unsuccesful artificial insemination, but there really isn't any part of the whole conception endeavor that's rational, is there? We are driven by this snake-brain urge disguised as an emotional desire tangled up with societal expectations. It turned me into a loon, and now I get to sit back smugly and watch AR go through the same metamorphosis.
Biology, man. You can't fight it.
Except we are fighting it. As a couple, we are technically infertile, though chosing an anonymous donor from an sperm bank's online catalogue seemed like a perfectly natural selection to me. Once I got over the weirdness factor, that is. Of course, that was nothing compared to the horror I had to overcome when I was six years old and my sister told me where babies really come from. (Vaginas?! I'm telling Mom!)
Intercourse, insemination, in vitro, adoption - however you get there, the whole having a baby thing is one freaky ride.
posted by judybat at 9:10 PM
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AnnaRay will officially stop giving you a hard time about how upset you were after we failed to conceive the first time. AnnaRay will not stop giving you a hard time about the fact that you still think you failed because you wound up having a c-section.
Just FYI.
Last night I dreamed that I was hugely pregnant and the baby was due, but I hadn't gone into labor, so they were going to do a c-section, and I was so upset about it that I was sobbing and begging them to let me go to the accupuncturist, because my friend Amy went to an accupuncturist to make sure she'd go into labor with her second kid after her first had been a c-section and it worked for her.
But it's not like I dwell on it or anything.
"one freaky ride" -- and not just for the sperm and the baby.
-Phil
Enough about all this blim blam and hem haw, do you people realize the Wallace and Gromit movie opens in 5 days?!
OK you two, can we please get a post about the Yankees or football or how TheBoy looks in his A-Rod outfit please? I know that these things matter too, and all this talk about blame and monthly visitors and cutting during birth are doing crazy things to my perception of my sister.
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