Just Wait, There's More! Bad Infertility Jokes.

 Recently when looking up pictures on google 

I ran across a few that I decided to collect and write a post. 

After being diagnosed with infertility, many methods of trying to have a baby, 

finally get pregnant, wow! it's identical twin girls, but they develop TTTS 

and pass away before their 19th week. I qualify to be able to vent. 

Here we go..

So you start out on your journey into parenthood with the desire to one day have children. 

You begin trying to conceive and of course you learn about that couple who tried 

for two whole months, maybe less, but it was suuuch a long time trying. 

Give me a break. Try eight years. 

Clomid is funny stuff. It never really effected me that way. 

However the infertility drugs and injections were another case. 

Moody doesn't even begin to describe the surge of hormones that take over your body.

Eventually people decide to give advice, 

some mean well while others do not but are just trying to be nice.

After years of trying you begin to feel cranky, at times upset, 

you get unwanted advice from your pregnant friends or your family. 

And..

Of course advice from those who have kids too 

because they "know what they are talking about"..

Then it's back to the drawing board. 

Let's try something else this time. 

Oh the joys of injections.

"Everything happens for a reason" you're told by your friend. 

You may have been trying and again unsuccessful 

or perhaps you just lost your pregnancy. 

"At least it was early on" you may hear.. 

Suddenly you may want to lose your cool. Keep control. 

They will probably think you're crazy if you react to them.

Now you're in this void of either not pregnant 

or used to be pregnant but lost everything.

All you see around you now are pregnant women, 

either early on or within weeks of their due date,

feelings that occur are not pleasant when you hear complaints. 

Did you complain when you were pregnant? 

You certainly never tried to because you were grateful to be pregnant, 

you wanted to enjoy every moment good or bad, 

because it meant you were pregnant!

So what is the fasted way to lose an infertile friend? Isn't it obvious?!

But have you tried this? Well of course you have. What haven't you tried?

Now that you've been pregnant and lost everything, you're trying again.

That ninth year anniversary of trying is creeping up quickly, isn't it?

You may hear someone say, "you're not as young as you used to be" 

and want to reply with either something mean because to you that's a 

reminder of how many years you have been trying for a family. 

Instead you just reply with something obvious like, "yup, you're right." 

So what's next? Just accept defeat and move on?

I THINK NOT!!!

In the meantime it's all a waiting game while trying.

Attempting to keep our composure and sanity as the weeks,

months and years continue to pass by. Always hopeful.

Waiting for our family.

It will happen again for us, I have to believe that.

And our future children will always know that they were very much wanted!

Growing up in a household with parents that loved them 

even before they were born, a family. 

A long for that someday.