And so it begins again. While other couples are getting in the mood with candle light and soft music, every other night you'll find me and OH breaking the seals on two vials of powder, adding sterile water, giving it a good shake (the smaller the crystals the better) and sucking the contents into a syringe with a two inch needle attached. Then I lie on my side and hum a tune to distract myself while OH literally stabs me in the butt. He's not being vindictive, at least I don't think he is, it just hurts less this way.
I can't complain, we've done all this before and were blessed with our beautiful daughter as a result. And OH is getting quite the expert with a needle. So it is with a glad and hopeful heart that I start this journey again. Wish us luck.
One more thing...
I had a long, hard think last week about what I post about after reading this post and the resulting comments. I chose not to comment and I'm not going to write much about it here because enough people have popped their two penneth into that pot, and because I'm a newbie and not sure I should, but I respect all the views and having gone through a full range of emotions about it all, I'm now sailing on my way happy in the knowledge that free opinion is one of the jewels of the blogosphere. Live and let live.
Photo credit: 3D doctor and patient by jscreationzs at freedigitalphotos.net
Wishing you all the best on your baby making journey!! I have no clue about how fertility treatments work, it's kind of fascinating (i'm a pharmacologist) & all i can think is that you guys REALLY deserve those babies when they come along. Love Posie
ReplyDeleteI said it the other day but I'll say it again - I wish you luck and hope all goes well for you second time around. Hope there isn't too much butt stabbing going on.
ReplyDeleteAs for the typecast post, I saw it last week. It really made me think but my resulting thought was why would someone post that - they clearly knew it would rile a lot of people. Blogging is about freedom of speech and opinion as you say. Expressing ourselves with photos is part of that speech. Live and let live indeed.
Well that is certainly an attention grabbing title! Fingers crossed for you and your husband, as you said the results last time were a beautiful little girl, who knows this time it might be 2! Wishing you all my luck x
ReplyDeleteThank you so, so much. It IS sort of fascinating I guess, I certainly know more about my insides now that I EVER did before lol! xx
ReplyDeleteHuge hugs and thanks my dear xxx
ReplyDeleteI couldn't resist *sniggers*. Thank you for your lovely well-wishes xx
ReplyDeleteGood for you for hopping back onto the wagon. Even if it involves needles. ::shudder::
ReplyDeleteYou too! Thank you for kicking my butt :D xxx
ReplyDeleteGOOD LUCK! I'm in sort of the same position as you except not quite at the needle stage. I understand the lack of candlelight though... ;)
ReplyDeleteAs for the post you refer to, I hadn't seen it until you pointed it out. I love a mix, but I don't mind lack of photo. If a post is just a photo then sometimes it's more difficult to comment, but that doesn't worry me. And as for my blog, I love photos AND content!
Ooo good luck to you too! Like I said, live and let live. It's all good. Thanks for popping by :D
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