It’s National Infertility Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is #FlipTheScript. What If My Kid Wants to Meet Their Donor?…
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Is it Weird to See How Much Your Kid Looks Like Your Donor? #NIAW 2018 • Day 2
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is #FlipTheScript. Does it bother me when I see my donor’s…
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Did You Know: Moms via Egg Donation are Biological Mothers? #NIAW 2018 • Day 1
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is #FlipTheScript. I’ll be posting something here on OFT, as well…
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FET Accompli
The results of our February FET are in—at the bottom of this [long!] post. Back in November, my RE handed…
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Four Years After Fifty-Five Eggs, Ten Embryos, and One Child… FET 6
We retrieved FIFTY-FIVE eggs from your egg donor today, so we got a very large group of eggs today. We’ve…
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Five Years
It was five years ago today that I took a pregnancy test for the first time and saw a second…
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WTF 4
Our WTF meeting didn’t go so well. I mean, after the cursory, “This must be so disappointing for you…,” my…
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What is Enough?
It’s noon. Had things gone well, I’d be wrapping up my FET by now. Instead, I’m tapping out anger and…
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78 Days Down the Drain
My cycle—what would have been FET4—was cancelled. And the anger that I feel is deeper than anything I’ve felt in…
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Day 5: Capture Your Grief
Day 5 of #captureyourgrief coincides with my undue date for Mizuko Bean. Bean showed up with two bold pink lines,…
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