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Inconceivable Mama: Mind Games, Superstitions, Weird Math and RESOLVE
By Inconceivable Mama The longer you struggle with infertility the more mind games you tend to play with yourself. You begin to question your every move to the point it becomes obsessive. I find myself wondering if the caffeine in my coffee kept me from getting pregnant. Did that huge sneeze I had last Thursday [...]
Inconceivable Mama: Blocked fallopian tube and HSG
By Inconceivable Mama Last month I shared with you my Conceptual Plan. We’re currently in phase 2 – Timed intercourse. All I can do now is laugh at how clinical this has all become. What else can I do? Crying and anger have gotten me nowhere. Jealousy of the 16-year-old student in my class who [...]
Inconceivable Mama: A conceptual plan
By Inconceivable Mama If you have read the previous installments of my journey with infertility you will know that each step has seemingly brought more questions than answers and none has resulted in a pregnancy. Several years, many doctor visits and thousands of dollars later I still felt confused, sad and full of questions. The [...]
Inconceivable Mama: What NOT to say to a friend struggling with infertility
By Inconceivable Mama “So, how come you guys haven’t had kids yet?” If I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question I could pay for all the infertility treatments that my health insurance won’t cover. This question has baffled me for my entire adulthood. When I first got married it just [...]
Inconceivable Mama: Depression
By Inconceivable Mama When I began this post I had set out to give you all the details of my endometriosis surgery. We all know surgery is scary. Even though there are benefits, there are risks and pain and recovery is never quite what the doctors tell you. But overall my procedure went off without [...]
Inconceivable Mama: A glimmer of hope
By Inconceivable Mama My latest goal was to convince my doctor to give us a referral to the Arkansas Fertility Clinic and in July, I scheduled an appointment and told my doctor that I felt we had reached a point where I needed to get a second opinion. The doctor kept telling me we hadn’t [...]
Inconceivable Mama: Riding an infertility roller coaster
By Inconceivable Mama We had left our last doctor’s appointment with a prescription for Clomid, a box of ovulation test strips, and little hope of actually conceiving in the near future. A lot of people are aware of the struggles some couples have with infertility but, unless you or someone extremely close to you has [...]
Inconceivable Mama: A Hysterosal-what?
By Inconceivable Mama In the first year and half of our journey towards conception I had undergone three separate sets of blood tests, two ultrasounds, added Metformin and a synthetic hormone to my daily routine and had visited my OBGYN more times than I could count. Hubs had had a series of blood tests and [...]
Inconceivable Mama: Houston, we have a problem
By Inconceivable Mama Shortly after Hubs and I started trying for a baby I went to the doctor and underwent a series of tests because I have a history of ovarian cysts. We wanted to make sure that everything looked clear so I donated several vials of blood and had an ultrasound to make sure [...]
Inconceivable Mama: A dirty little secret
By Inconceivable Mama Dealing with infertility causes you to ask yourself a lot of questions. The first time the word “infertility” was spoken in our house I immediately began to re-question some things that I had done YEARS ago. Everyone has skeletons in their closet. Some people’s skeletons are bigger than others. I have a [...]
Inconceivable Mama: If wishes and buts were candy and nuts
By Inconceivable Mama I never imagined myself having children so I certainly never imagined there would come a time in my life in which I would deal with infertility. My little girl dreams never really involved me being a mom some day. The sound of babies crying made my skin crawl and just the thought [...]