Sunday, January 23, 2011

Rage Against the Fertility Feed

This post has all the makings of a good old-fashioned rant. If you want no part of it, please opt out here.  I'm telling warning you, it could will get ugly.  If you want no part of it, I understand. Just exit here.  Okay, if you are still here, I assume you are willing and able to understand the hormonal rant that is about to ensue.  I'll keep my anger limited to three subjects.

1.)  Is it too much to ask for just one time to log on to facebook and NOT see the inside of someone's uterus?  It's bad enough that EVERYONE I ran cross country with in high school is pregnant. (Don't read this as me not being happy for them, read this as a person who desperately wants to be pregnant getting slapped in the face daily, repeatedly by what she will now unaffectionately refer to as the "Fertility Feed.")  Is it too much to request that people not put weekly updates of their fetus' development on FACEBOOK?  Who would click on those links (infertile or otherwise)?  Part of me would love to publicly document my IVF cycle on facebook, just to level the playing field. If infertility affects one in ten couples, I think it would be awesome for somebody (think "me") to put a story out there that disproves the popular belief that touching a penis gets you pregnant.  I'm stuck here, peeps. So, so many pregos and on a day like today, I have to physically restrain myself from hiding them from my newsfeed.  Ugh. On a side note, I've gotten awesome at skipping and skimming. If it appears that a girl is standing sideways in a pic to show off a belly, my eyes go right over it and keep on going. "Selective Facebooking" is what I call it.

2.) Where in the hell is my period?  Again, is it too much to ask to NOT have to wait for her when I know she's coming? Dr. Awesome RE told us that we would NEVER conceive another child naturally. It's not like I'm sitting here with false hope thinking that sperm and egg have united and that a little bit of magic is going on inside my womb right now.  I'm not getting tricked into taking a WondFo, Flo. Just get here, ya beeyotch, so I can get on with my life IVF

3.)  My husband came home a little while ago from a 10 mile run and proceeded to waft around the house smelling like a wet dog. Bear in mind, odor is my constant enemy. Living with three men and a dog (who used to be a man before we had his you knows cut off) puts me on smell duty all the time. A candle is always burning, dirty dishes don't sit in the dishwasher, dirty laundry doesn't sit in the hampers, and the garbage is always taken out before it start to stink.  So, as you can imagine, walking around smelling like a wet, stinky dog man is UNacceptable.  Part of me knows he did it on purpose just because he subscribes to the eighth grade boy school of thought where if you like a girl, you piss her off just to put out the vibe that you like her.

I know as far as rants go, this could be way worse.  Part of me feels bad about the facebook rant.  It's not like it's those girl's fault for being fertile. It's not our fault for being infertile.  It's just that fertility is everywhere, completely acceptable to be pregnant regardless of the situation surrounding it all. Infertility is taboo and that is unjust and even if no one cares about it, it should be in their faces, too.

I don't feel bad about the husband rant, but I will amend myself where I said he did it on purpose.  He was probably clueless to his smell.  He doesn't think any of his "smells" smell.

As far as AF is concerned, she can go %$*^ herself.

***EDIT**** I just signed out, went to the bathroom and SHE'S HERE. Woo hoo!! CD One! Birth control to start on Tuesday! :)

9 comments:

  1. Ugh my dh does the same thing. He thinks its so funny to be disgusting. Men, they never grow up.
    I understand your fb rant. This weekend everywhere I went i was right next to a pregnant woman. And I do mean everywhere. At Ds's soccer game, At church the woman sitting next to us, When we went out to lunch the lady in line was pg. They are surrounding me. Its a constant reminder of what I want. Its so hard. Huge hugs. Sorry for my rant on your page.

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  2. Long-Suffering HeartJanuary 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    Don't feel bad, Trav. This is the place for rants today. :) I see fertiles everywhere, too. One girl was texting in Target and pushing her cart with her belly. Made me want to scream. I went two aisles over to get away from her and ran right into a woman who had 5 kids and another one on the way! UGH.

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  3. Fertility feed. That's so funny.

    ICLW

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  4. I honestly don't think it would be oh-so terrible to flood up the feeds with infertility stuff. My goal is that if/when we start IVF, I'll document it in my status feed... not in a "woe is me and my barren womb" kind of way, but like a "YAY FOR TRANSFER WOOHOOOO!" kind of way. I don't know. Every time I mention it to someone, they turn out to be infertile as well. So you never know who might come out of the woodwork and adore your posts.

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  5. ((hugs)) But yay for CD 1!! Woot! Let's get this party started!

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  6. I can totally relate to Facebook news feeds. The whole of Facebook seems pregnant! If its not my friends its their other friends! Urgh, carry on with the 'selective facebooking'
    Its so hard to see something that you so desperately want but can't have without their being a difficult & emotional journey behind it.
    {hug} ... Easy for some huh.

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  7. Ugh I am so sick of uterus updates too. Why do people think anyone cares???

    Yay for AF coming!

    -Elphaba

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  8. I also am getting good at skimming the fertility feed. I do think it would be funny if we infertiles could band together and flood facebook with IVF or IUI updates. And have a countdown for the TWW (like pregnant women count down to their due date, I seriously had one who posted EVERY day how many days past her due date she was!)
    When pregnant women post pictures of their uterus I'm tempted to post my "souvenir" pics of my lovely ovaries and their little cysts.

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  9. ICLW19.
    Yay for AF. I understand your dark mood. Mine is similar. Hope your cycle goes well.

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