Anything to Conceive

re: Anything to Conceive

The author — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:33:42 GMT

I think the author (me) left it up in the air because every piece I read about infertility ends with the happy ending of how the author finally, after all that hardship, got pregnant or adopted or somehow got her baby, and I wanted to write about how hard it is while I was STILL going through it, before I had my happy ending, for all the women still going through it, unable to visualize exactly how they will get their happy ending. Like I said in the piece, I know how this story will end, we will eventually adopt or use donor eggs or kidnap a baby (I'm kidding about that last option...), but the point is, it's hard to be in the grey area, in that space where you still hope you'll get pregnant even after you thought you finally let go of that hope... so this piece was written for all the women who are still in that grey area. Hannah, thanks for posting this, and thanks for getting it. Here's to all the happy endings yet to come, for me and all the women still waiting for theirs.

re: Anything to Conceive

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:29:52 GMT

Unfortunately, I cannot invent conclusions to other people's lives. The author of the article to which I am referring left the ending up in the air. For all I know she may have adopted, had triplets, or divorced her husband and moved to New Zealand. She simply wrote a funny, moving look at a very human struggle, and it's worth a read.

re: Anything to Conceive

Maeby — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:16:41 GMT

Did she try adopting? That might work.

re: Anything to Conceive

Arrow Tech IV — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:15:52 GMT

What was the point here? Why do you as the author want me, the reader, to care?

And...?

EXAMPLES OF BETTER CONCLUSIONS: She had a baby...She didn't have a baby...She painted herself blue and reinacted ancient Irish battles and discovered wode actually makes you ovulate...She is currently adopting a baby...She's just another example of a trend that ______ .......

re: Anything to Conceive

Yatesie — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:52:44 GMT

no offense.. but this article feels rather.. unfinished.