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Trying to Concieve / Before Baby

Who should birth the baby?

by Lyn October 1, 2010

Since many lesbian couples contain two working uteri, and possibly two women willing to conceive, choosing who will try to get pregnant is a place where lesbian couples have options that a straight families don’t.  In what follows, I’m making the assumption that both partners are open to pregnancy (though perhaps with a discrepancy in [...]

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Hmm…maybe I’m not the poster child…

by Lyn December 15, 2008

I had an appointment with acupuncturist Li last week to work on these last vestiges of morning sickness (thankfully, it’s intermittent, and I do have my energy back, so really, mostly I’m better). She said something about how long I’d been coming to see her, and I mentioned that I remembered way back at my [...]

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The disappearing switcheroo

by Lyn December 12, 2008

Gail and I often think about the different dynamics of TTC #1 vs. TTC #2. I wrote before about how somehow TTC this time had much more of a taint of selfishness, that somehow, when it is perfectly clear that I can fully love and parent a child whom I didn’t birth, and yet feel [...]

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Optional Reading

by Lyn November 24, 2008

The river only seems to flow backwards. I nestle in the callused hand of the earth. I am new life pushing through the soil’s crust. I spread my roots downward to vestiges of water, reaching for my Creator. If I am cut back I will emerge in a new place; send a soft, green bud [...]

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Acupuncture poster child, Part II

by Lyn November 17, 2008

(See some of the backstory in Part I) My first cycle with acupuncturist Li was excruciating. It was extremely long, and when I started bleeding at work on the first day of my period, the pain was so extreme I nearly passed out. My new boss (I had only been on the job about a [...]

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Acupuncture poster child, Part I

by Lyn November 13, 2008

I’ve gotten a several questions lately about my acupuncture treatment, so I thought I’d post them in case other folks are looking for information. I’m kind of an acupuncture poster child, and I don’t mean to imply, in that way that anecdotal evidence does, that acupuncture will work for everyone else just as well. But [...]

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Faint

by Gail September 26, 2008

This morning we got up at 5:45 so that Lyn could pee in a cup. It’s only 10 dpo 11 dpo (see comments), but Lyn has to turn in FSA forms today, and we wanted to know if we should put in more money for IUIs. Lyn peed and dipped, and 3 or 4 minutes [...]

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What we did right without knowing it: Part I

by Lyn September 25, 2008

I don’t want to sound too whiny about not “going first” as they say, because truly, Gail bearing our first child ended up being by far the best choice for our family, but not necessarily for the reason that prompted us to make that decision in the first place. Our motivating decisions around “birthing order” [...]

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What I missed last time

by Lyn September 23, 2008

A few months ago I went for a massage (that Mayan abdominal massage that’s supposed to help get you pregnant and cure evil cramps…I’ll take all the help I can get, and hey, it’s a massage!). I have a bit of a tendancy to get emotional at a massage, especially with this therapist, who always [...]

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We’re still in.

by Lyn September 15, 2008

Well I finally got a surge on Sat night. A full-on LH surge with a smiley face and everything (I don’t always get smiley’s, even when all other signs after the fact indicate ovulation happened). Tons and tons of EWM. On CD26. Which is late, even for me. We went with it anyway as we’d [...]

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About ready go call it.

by Lyn September 12, 2008

CD24. Sensitive OPKs are still stuck in the same “almost positive” spot. I’m getting nothing on the cheapos. No smiley faces. Had EWM but not really anymore. Still no temp spike but it’s looking like a no go. Our clinic charges a storage fee if you miss three cycles. I already missed August due to [...]

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