Welcome to the Laughing IS Conceivable Valentine’s Day Min Humor Marathon: Post 4- “Right Guy, Even Wronger Restaurant” If you arrived here of your own free will, without me shoving you in this direction on one of the first 3 posts in this mini-marathon, have no fear. Read this at your leisure and if you [...]

In the spirit of the Olympics, I’ve decided to combine my two passions: Sports and Infertility. I admit, something is clearly wrong with a person who would count “infertility” as a passion. For a few years of my life it was a royal pain in the nuisance to say the least. So I guess my [...]

Every time the statistics on teen pregnancy come out, don’t you just want to hurt somebody? Apparently the latest data show that while teen pregnancy is down, it’s still higher in the U.S. than in any other developed country. I think this is why the likes of us can’t get pregnant. We know too damn [...]

I think one of the hardest things to explain to the “outside world” when you’re dealing with infertility is how ANYTHING can trigger our sadness or negative thoughts and feelings.  It really doesn’t take much to set us off. It’s truly impossible to have a calm, rational conversation with an infertile woman. And the closer you are to us, [...]

We’re impossible. We are. When you’re going through infertility, there’s no way to talk to us. The first thing to go may be our ability to conceive easily. But then, three of our senses tailgate very closely behind: 1) Hearing 2) Sight 3) Rational Thinking (aka Common Sense)… Not necessarily in that order. After months and months of trying [...]

So, what were we talking about? Oh right. The other day we chatted about things we know we shouldn’t think— let alone say. You may as well make ”infertility” number 3 on the top 100 list of unacceptable topics of conversation at polite dinner parties: 1) Religion 2) Politics 3)  Infertility Maybe it should even be higher on the list. [...]

I’ll tell you…it’s easy to be po’d at celebrities.  All of them with twins conceived with their own 50 year old eggs.  Imagine that. And then they don’t want to share their fertility secrets with us! I just want to poke them: “Hey, you’re in the public eye! You picked this line of work! You can’t just keep your infertility issues to [...]

So this week at Laughing IS Conceivable, we’ve been toying with the intriguing notion that we all just got great news: That this whole infertility debacle that we’ve been referring to as “my life”  for the past two months, two years, or twelve years was all just a big misunderstanding. And today, (as the fantasy goes) we [...]

Anyone who has ever dealt with infertility has also, at one time or another, dealt with well-meaning friends and relatives peddling their useless infertility advice…Free of charge… The only catch is: We have to listen to it.

So, I’ve been made aware that there are many infertile women out there who are still not fully recovered from Mother’s Day.  And, by the way… That’s okay.  I’ve been blogging all about that for the past two weeks, giving Mother’s Day the tribute it deserves with plenty of good old fashioned anger and violence. That depressing, Hallmark-induced, [...]