by Amy | Nov 8, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
Do you want to see something disgusting? No? Aw come on. This is the “tea” that my acupuncture doctor wants me to drink twice a day to help me get pregnant. It looks like swamp mud. It smells like someone pooped poison mushrooms. When I confess to her that I just...
by Amy | Jul 12, 2012 | Babymaking, Couplehood, Infertility, My Family
When I was knocked up with Viv, Dave and I became obsessed with the television program “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.” Have you seen this show? It’s AMAZING. In every episode, a woman recounts how she somehow made it through 9 months of gestation without ever...
by Amy | May 20, 2012 | Babymaking, Couplehood, Infertility, My Family
I consider myself a fairly competent person, but there are several things at which I suck. My penmanship is messy. My desk is even messier. I am cranky in the morning. I am fearful of merging from the 110 freeway to the 101 and have a lousy sense of direction....
by Amy | Apr 2, 2012 | Babymaking, Infertility, My Family
We’re trying to get pregnant and my lady cycle’s been kind of wonky so we decided to pay a visit to our friendly neighborhood reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Rosenpenis. Not his real name or face. If only. Dave and I had assumed that conceiving a second...
by Amy | Feb 12, 2012 | Babymaking, My Family
Dave and I are thinking about baby #2, so I’ve started gearing up. I cut back on caffeine, loaded up on vitamins and dusted off my trusty Clearblue Easy ovulation monitor, just to make sure everything’s in good working order. Every morning for a week, I peed on a...
