Someone like me
As of August 2006, we had been TTC for four years. Yeah, that's quite awhile. In that time, I've had friends "lap" me (a term I coined to describe when someone has their second or subsequent child while you're still waiting) and finish their families. I've come across women with myriad infertility issues. But I have yet to find someone like me.
Sure, we all have the common bond of a dream unfulfilled. I'm just looking for someone who has my exact issues who succeeded. What does that mean? I'd love to find a woman with PCOS, mild endo, pathetic (if even present) CM, eggs that release "too late," and who used to have a uterine septum and polyps (now removed). This woman's husband is completely normal, in my mind. This woman's experience is basically mine. And I want her to have conceived and given birth, ideally without IVF.
Why? I can read all the live-long day about women who've conceived with all manner of IF issues, but until I find this elusive woman, I won't be completely convinced that it can happen to me. I know it's possible, theoretically, but I need some empirical evidence! So I comb through IF blogrolls. I scour message boards. And I keep hoping that sometime, I'll find my standard bearer. And then I can feel just a little bit better about my odds. Until that day, I sit in a sort of limbo. Waiting.
Sure, we all have the common bond of a dream unfulfilled. I'm just looking for someone who has my exact issues who succeeded. What does that mean? I'd love to find a woman with PCOS, mild endo, pathetic (if even present) CM, eggs that release "too late," and who used to have a uterine septum and polyps (now removed). This woman's husband is completely normal, in my mind. This woman's experience is basically mine. And I want her to have conceived and given birth, ideally without IVF.
Why? I can read all the live-long day about women who've conceived with all manner of IF issues, but until I find this elusive woman, I won't be completely convinced that it can happen to me. I know it's possible, theoretically, but I need some empirical evidence! So I comb through IF blogrolls. I scour message boards. And I keep hoping that sometime, I'll find my standard bearer. And then I can feel just a little bit better about my odds. Until that day, I sit in a sort of limbo. Waiting.
