So I was wondering how you came up with the title of your blog. Did you ponder it for days or did it just come to you? Was it an epiphany-- an "ah-ha!" moment? Or did you know the moment you started typing?
Mine was pretty straight forward---
I decided I wanted to start a blog because I needed to get out my emotions somehow while still being a little creative. I started to think about fertility and how I once heard a friend say it was "easy to become a mom"--- I thought "Ha! What a load of crap!"
While accurate, I didn't think that was the best blog title so here you have it--- Motherhood (the not so easy road)
Achieved with tears, faith, hope, pure love, and a lot of medication.
This Is My Story
- Grad3
- I am 32 years old and a survivor of Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL.) In 4 years we have lost a total of 7 pregnancies, 2 losses were after seeing a heartbeat. L and I were able to keep baby number 6 after I started IVIg treatments. We were able to add to our family in January 2010 after using Intralipid treatments. My current diagnosis is RPL, PCOS, Factor V, and Abnormal Leukocyte Antibodies.
Me and L During the Blissful Days of Ignorance
Fertility History
- Nov '05- Blighted Ovum Found At 10 Weeks (1st )
- Dec '05 to Jan '06- Pregnancy (2nd) and miscarried at 6 weeks
- Feb '06- Diagnosed With PCOS and Factor V
- March '06 to July '06- 1500mg of Metformin with Letrozole/ Clomid... No Response
- Aug '06- New RE... Injectable Cycle w/ Follistim and IUI
- Sept '06 to Oct '06- Pregnancy (3rd) Miscarriage, No Development After 6 Weeks, Chromosome Testing Came Back Normal
- Jan '07- New Insurance Means New RE
- Feb '07- Letrozole Cycle w/ Booster Injection and IUI... I responded!!
- March '07- Chemical Pregnancy (4th)
- April '07 to May '07 - Pregnancy (5th), Lost Heartbeat At 7w5d, Chromosome Testing Came Back Normal
- June '07- RE says Egg Donor... We Request Immune Testing, Refers Us To New RE
- July '07- New RE Requests Saline U/S and Immune Tests
- Aug '07- RE Finds Abnormal Leukocyte Antibodies
- Aug '07- Pregnancy (6th)
- Sept '07- Started IVIg Treatments
- May '08- Welcome to the World Lil' P!!
- Sept '08- Not Trying but Not Preventing
- Nov '08- Pregnancy (7th), Miscarriage at 7w
- Dec '08 to Jan '09- Pregnancy (8th), Lost Heartbeat At 7w3d
- May '09- Pregnancy (9th)
- May '09 to Sept '09- Intralipid Treatments with Predisone (20w)
- Jan '10- Welcome to the World Triumph!
Books, Novels, and Authors to Read
- Jen Lancaster (love her!)
- Philippa Gregory
- Savich and Sherlock: The FBI Series by Catherine Coulture
- The Enchanted Inc. Series by Shanna Swendson
- The Shopoholic Series by Sophie Kinsella
- The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD
- Stephanie Plum Novels by Janet Evanovich
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (duh!)
- Kay Scarpetta Novels by Patricia Corwell
Movies and TV Shows
- Sex In The City
- CSI: Las Vegas
- Dead Like Me (it was only two seasons)
- Legally Blonde
- Criminal Minds
- News Radio
- Emma
- Pride and Prejudice (A&E Version)
Other Things I Like
- The Sound of My Family Laughing
- Thunderstorms
- The Smell of a Camp Fire
- My Favorite Season is Fall
- A Grande Mocha from Starbucks
- Chocolate (what can't it fix beside my uterus?)
6 comments:
Yes. It's definitely not easy!!!
My ovaries suck. I envision them as something sort of like raisins. Or walnuts covered in dust. Therefore, I knew my blog title had to involve these sub-par ovaries of mine... hence the title.
I just felt like when it came to getting pregnant there were so many obstacles and uncontrollable emotions, hence my title. Funny enough, I thought of the title while leaving the RE appointment where I realized I had lost my twins. It was one of the few good things that came out of that day.
I was really into project runway, esp. Tom and Lorenzo's blog about PR, at the time when I started blogging about IF. "Project Progeny" just came to me I guess b/c of the alliteration. But I also really liked the title "The I Word" b/c I was (am) so in the closet about IF. So I compromised and used projectprogeny as the url, and "the I word" as the title, until I switched from blogspot to wordpress and changed the title to match the url. So, media/pop culture references pretty much directed my blog title.
Mine came to me fairly easily. We were a little ways into this nightmare, we had several diagnoses and no answers. I just felt kind of like a mouse running through a maze, trying to find the way out but just continually running into walls and never finding the exit. I felt like I was looking for a directional sign that read "This way to escape infertility" with a big arrow under it, pointing me in the right direction.
Unfortunately, it's been 6 years, and I'm still looking for the sign. But I've hit so many walls that if I was a cat, I'd look like a Persian one (with the flat face)... :-)
At the time I started my blog, I was (as if you couldn't guess) feeling lost and bitter and as if the universe had played some huge joke on me and everyone else was laughing at me as I cried.
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