Showing posts with label conceive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conceive. Show all posts

Thursday, January 08, 2009



TR and I went in for a full body sonogram of The Bean today. It took forever, but I'm happy to report that it has all its fingers and toes and all systems are very much a go in terms of its development. I still don't know what it is, but the technician does. She made me cover my eyes when she was taking photos of The Bean's goodies.

I'm still amazed that The Bean is in such great shape, especially since I didn't know I was pregnant until I was three months along. I was running all the time, having my way with the Bordeaux and chasing around town like a crazy person. I've read all these conception articles, which encourage women trying to eat right and relax, sleep normally and get into The Zone in order to conceive. They even encourage intimacy with your partner! Crazy! I did none of that. I ran on coffee and burgers then on empty. Life is funny, kiddos.



This photo freaks me out (in a good way!) because you can see the brain and the brain stem. The brain is quite large! That comes from my side of the family, of course.

A Nice New Year's Quote -- We're All Winners!

My OB/GYN has an odd habit of handing me copies of Conceive: Celebrating the Creation of Families whenever I go in for a check up. The magazine is mainly aimed at couples who are having issues conceiving, and there are articles inside about things like egg donation, surrogacy and ads for fertility clinics. (Conception doesn't seem to be my issue, Doc. I got that one down pat.)

The whole fertility industry has started to fascinate me, mainly because it's a curious overlap of science, big business and altruism. Fertility treatments are expensive, not covered by insurance and prey heavily on emotion, mainly women's. (I've heard brides say the same thing about the wedding industry and wedding gown shops.)

There was a nice quote inside the magazine about how we should all be happy in general, because we are, essentially, very lucky just to be around.

"I think we all need to be happy. We have all one the lottery. It is a scientific fact that it takes 250 sperm to fertilize an egg, and we were all the winning sperm." -- Dr. Neil Shulman.

Happy New Year! And quit all that moping.