Our (pre)Baby Blog

I’ve added a calendar to this site, which can be accessed using the button on the top left. I’ll use it to record milestones of the IVF cycle as I learn the dates. I get a lot of people asking me when we’ll start the cycle, when the implantation will take place, etc. The fact is, I won’t know some of these dates till maybe the day before they happen. The start date of the cycle is dependent on the start date of my period, assuming the probes are ready by then. If not, it will be the following month.

Also, because I like to keep things interactive, I’ve also started adding other important dates to the calendar for my girls on the MBIS08 thread (you know who you are!) - birthdays, anniversaries, and whatever other events they’d like to see on there.

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I’ll admit it. I love to blog. Most of you already know about my recipe site, which I started long before beginning this blog.  I also told Al that, when he starts restoring his 1969 Mach 1 Mustang, I’m going to start a blog about that too.  (Evil side note: I call it the “Dustang” because since I’ve known him it’s been covered in dust!)

Blogging is an outlet for me.  I never could get into keeping a diary, although I tried a number of times.  Maybe it’s the interactive format of a blog that appeals to me.  With few exceptions (Anne Frank and Anaïs Nin come to mind) most people’s diaries are never shared with the outside world.  And even then, Anne and Anaïs were never able to benefit from the feedback available to bloggists. So, if you’re still reading this, Thank You.

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I’ve been seeing these “show and tell” posts popping up in some of the blogs I read lately, so I thought I’d give it a go this week.  I don’t know if I’ll stick with it, because I may not always have something worth showing, but this week I do.

We’ve had such insane weather this summer.  I think we had at least some rain about two-thirds of the days in July, and we’ve had an unusual amount of thunder and lightning as well.  August has only been slightly better.

Just over a week ago, I was driving home during a thunder storm.  It started to clear up as I was nearing home, and I saw the most brilliant rainbow I’ve ever seen outside of Hawaii.  I was able to make it home, grab my camera and get a few shots before the rain took over again and the rainbow faded away.  Here are couple of those photos:

That second one would look a lot better without the power lines.  Oh, well…see what other’s are showing this week by visiting here.

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The girls from the TTC boards are on a roll these days. Brandi just found out she’s having a baby. Congratulations, Brandi! She’s had a rough time of it. Her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, and the baby would have been due in a few days. She also just celebrated her anniversary, so this news couldn’t have come at a better time!

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Someone started a great topic on the TTC message boards today: What’s the craziest advice you’ve been given for getting pregnant…and did you try it? One woman bought a fertility spell from a “real live witch” on eBay. Another was told that eating avocado does the trick, because it looks like a pregnant woman when you cut it open. I find that one particularly amusing, since the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word ahuakatl, which means testicle.  I guess you can still think of it as a fertility symbol with that definition.  =)

A few months ago I took a fertility yoga class.  The woman who runs it is a bit out there.  She has a copy of a book (I think it is called “The Fertility Diet”) that she swears is a “lucky” book.  Anyone she’s ever leant it to has become pregnant.  You don’t even have to read it - just keep it with you, put it under your pillow at night, yadda yadda yadda.  I borrowed it.  I did not get pregnant.

When I returned it to her, she promptly leant it to another woman in the class who was new and hadn’t heard the wonders of the book yet.  When she explained about the “everyone getting pregnant” part, I pointed out that it did not work for everyone, as I was living proof.  She said, “Well, it doesn’t always work right away.”  Oh no, of course not.  So, if I do get pregnant…eventually, does she get to take credit for that?

What’s the craziest advice on getting pregnant you’ve heard?

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