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[Leeloo]

Today I was walking in town with my daughter in her stroller and my belly starting to show and I came across a women about my age who looked at me and my daughter and my belly with such a look of envy and despair. I could not help but think that she probably was in the process of IVF as retrospect, I am sure I also looked at people that way when I struggled with the fear of never becoming a mother. I almost wanted to stop her and tell her how long and complicated it has been for us and so that there is always hope.

 

Sorry I that's not very funny...

 

Although, perhaps I am just so obsessed au traumatized by my IF experience that maybe she was not even looking at me and I made up this whole thing in my imagination...!

 

So I guess... you know you're infertile when you see infertile everywhere you go!

[orchid]

You do the deed on just the right day and then purposely try to mix up the day when your period is due -- just to get a little taste of what it feels like to be late and potentially prego naturally.  When AF shows up, you're disappointed, but more relieved there was no money on the line. 

[autumnmarie]

You spew infertility stats and facts like a sports announcer.

[Miss_Boos]

After you have gone pee and reach to flush the toilet and think "what a waste of good urine"

[ilovemydogs]

You see a man transporting several cases of ensure on the subway and wonder if his wife is doing IVF.

[Sweet_Insanity]

You know your infertile when,... You think if I got pg now my dd would be, or now, or now, and it has been going on for years. Got really good at the math not so much the pg

[autumnmarie]

You see license plates with combos like FSH, BFP, IUI and wonder why they're broadcasting their IF protocols...till you realize those are just combinations they randomly recieved when they ordered plates.

[babiesta]

You have been crying for years, as soon as you see your AF but when you are about to start your IVF journey, you are ecstatic when AF shows up.

[ilovemydogs]

You see a man on the subway with a carton of Ensure and silently wish his significant other good luck on her retrieval.

[lumnay]

You know you're infertile when... after having a surgery that made your abdomen distended, you look at the mirror smiling and excitedly tell your confused husband "Babe, this is what I'll look like when I get pregnant!" as you stroke your tummy with love.

[autumnmarie]

Your ability to procreate depends on your bank balance

[lumnay]

You might be infertile when...

 

your husband jokes about you being a smurf during cycling "because you're blue down there!" (thanks to Crinone and estrace combo)

 

on cd30, upon getting the results of your negative beta, you sarcastically exclaim-- Great! Now I can get rid of the "foreign stuff" in there ASAP.

 

on cd2,you're instructed to stick a little blue pill up (estrace) in your v-j-j  and your reaction is "oh, okay, now we'll mix red and blue so that'll make purple?"

 

on beta day, you tell the lab technician that you're there for a 2-year standing order and she asks "for beta Hcg?" then you smile and say "yes, please and I hope to see you in 2 days not 1 month"

[dragnfly]

U know u r IF when...
You have more needles & vials of meds in your house than a diabetic
Or when u have to devote a whole produce drawer in your fridge to IF meds

[Mrs. R]

....when your Mom tells you that avocado is a natural fertility booster.....and you think, wouldn't it be great if adding a little avocado in my life could solve all my IF problems lol

[idream]

When you stop fantasizing about hot men, and start fantasizing about being pregnant.

[ndo_inwaiting]

... Your doctor sees more of your vagina that your husband. Severe male factor is one of our factors so chances of natural conception are about that of winning the lottery.

[Mamasita204]

I know this is an old thread, but it really made my day!