I don't have a FB account. I'm just not that interesting.
I had beans, mashed potatoes and fried okra for supper. Yum! See? Who needs or cares to know that? However... my best friend gave me her username/password and allows me to be her "stalker" anytime I feel the need to see what's happening on FB. Here's an edited version (names taken out) of a conversation I came across while stalking:
Fertile 1- Thank you! I'm due 9/10. Have you found out what you're having yet?
Fertile 2- That's my moms birthday lol! I'm having a boy... due July 3rd.
Fertile 1- Cool! I bet big sis is so excited! What are you naming him?
Fertile 2- She is so excited! ------- will be his name. Were y'all trying to get prego?
Fertile 1- Yeah. Of course I should've known it only takes once!
Fertile 2- Lol same for me too! We are fertile myrtles! One shot and here we are!
I didn't post this to shout "Bitter, infertile here!" Instead, it just makes me realize how some people can't even begin to understand what the IF journey is like. I don't wish it on them or any of us AT ALL. I just hope they know how lucky and fortunate they are. I just wonder if they took a moment to look at their child and think "what would I have done to get you here?" I'm pretty sure they would have gone to the ends of the earth. I wish they knew that 1 out of 8 of their friends were reading this conversation and they cried... or they cursed... or they felt so broken. Maybe, just maybe,
if they knew the last part of the conversation would have looked something like this...
Fertile 1- Yeah. We are so fortunate that it happened for us so soon.
Fertile 2- It's amazing that it happened for both of us the first month we tried. Others try for so long and my heart goes out to them. We are very lucky!
I stumbled over the words to this post but people who are reading here will get what I'm trying to say... oh how
we get it!