[I should be posting this in the Link of the Day sidebar, but there are too many good quotes to choose just one.]
Our friends Erin and Lindsay are having a baby in about three months. Lindsay, the one who is pregnant, has been blogging about the experience with perhaps more detail than you’d be comfortable with. We’re talking a lot of detail. For example: “We have had some trouble with the sperm just flowing right back out of the cervix.”
Personally, I love it. But I won’t presume the same for you.
Anyway, after a month or so of not blogging, Lindsay put together a post entitled Two Trimesters in Review, and it’s fantastic. It includes an image from the ultrasound, so you should go over and check it out, but to give you a little preview, here’s a couple of quotes that just knocked me out. Enjoy!
- “I’ve had a few weird cravings - bagel with cream cheese and hamburger (the burger just stuck between the two halves of the cream-cheesy bagel - oh, and with ketchup too). I had a bagel with almond butter on it and then a side of fried clams.”
- “I was fast asleep and woke up gasping, choking, and spitting because the contents of my stomach had, for some strange reason, decided to completely fill my mouth and nose. It wasn’t that I was vomiting in my sleep, my stomach just leaked…It was horrible and terrifying to wake up feeling like you’re drowning.”
If you and your partner are anywhere near baby-making age, you gotta check out this post, as well as some of the others on the blog, which incidentally, is entitled, “It Takes a Village (or at least a donor).” It’ll open your eyes to some of the realities of pregnancy.
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How strange that I ended up looking at your blog (because you brought it up on my ipod today). I hadn’t checked it out in months.
Yup, the blog is a bit graphic. You’re actually on a fairly short list of people that we know “in real life” that we’ve shared the link with. It is OK though, I’m pretty comfortable with graphic. Before we started trying to get pregnant, the whole process seemed overwhelming. I mean, by about 3rd grade you know how heterosexual couples make babies. If you’re having trouble with some of the “mechanics” of whatever, you can confide in a best friend or rely on locker-room talk. Lesbians don’t really have that. I got about 80% of my how-lesbians-make-a-baby information from blogs - the more graphic and detailed, the better. (Oddly, most of the other 20% of the info came from farming/veterinary sites on breeding animals – hey, all mammals are basically the same, right?) At this point in our lives, we really could not have afforded to use a fertility clinic (which would bring the cost up to about $2,000 per month for absolute basic “squirt the sperm in” services). I know if we’re bringing a baby into the world, we should be financially secure - At the same time, how many people have an extra $12,000 just kicking around that they can put into a slot machine on the 50-50 chance that a baby will come out (a realistic figure since only about 50% of women using frozen sperm conceive within 6 months). Then, I suppose it just didn’t make sense, once I’d gone into excruciating detail about insemination to clam up about everything else. If you made it that far, you can certainly handle reading about a little “heartburn” or whatever that craziness is called.