Monthly Archive: July 2009

Today we picked up the magical fertility egg from my sister. It’s actually a fancy bead that she got from one of her friends who said it’s supposed to help you get pregnant. Ever...

The wife started round two of the Letrazole today.  So far, so good – no side effects.  Rather than peeing on a stick, we’ve decided to spend a little more money on this round,...

7:35am – We are sitting in the clinic, waiting for the nurse to draw blood from the wife.  I am exhausted.  Making a baby is hard work. 12:10pm – It’s official.  Not pregnant.  I...

I am truly beginning to hate pregnancy tests.  The digital kind is by far the worst.  There is something so cold about the “NOT PREGNANT” that flashes on the tiny screen after 3 minutes...

We went to Prince Edward Island for the week with our straight friends Joel and Jen.  Given that we took pregnancy tests every morning, we let them in on our secret rather than let...

There is no way a pregnancy test can work this early.  Despite this, our collective impatience led us to CVS to pick up a wide assortment of pregnancy tests.  We took one as soon...

I held the wife’s hand as the nurse practitioner performed the insemination.  The entire procedure took less than 10 minutes.  We were pleased to find out that our donor sperm was high in numbers...

Woke up.  Wife peed on a stick. .  Ovulation test came back with a smiley face.  What!?  I am not going to lie – I danced around the bedroom.  This seems way too easy. ...

Woke up.  Wife peed on a stick.  Ovulation test came back with a blank “O.”  This is getting repetitive.

Woke up.  Wife peed on a stick.  Ovulation test came back with a blank “O.”  In other words, no egg yet… we get to try again tomorrow.