Tagged: having babies

Test after test after test…

Test after test after test…

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...

Patience is not our virtue…

Patience is not our virtue…

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...

Insemination Day…

Insemination Day…

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...

A Digital Smile!

A Digital Smile!

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. ...

Test day…

Test day…

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.

So much for a birthday present…

So much for a birthday present…

It’s the wife’s birthday, and her present is a massive migraine brought on by the drugs.  Awesome.  I feel like an asshole.  I know, a bit irrational, but it’s hard to not feel awful...

All systems are go!

All systems are go!

She got it!  I don’t think either of us has ever been so excited for the wife to get her period.  I usually dread it because of the cranky disposition that seems to take...

And so it begins…

And so it begins…

My wife and I are trying to get pregnant.  It’s been almost four months, and no luck yet.  No matter how hard I try, it’s just not working.  Sometimes being lesbians can be such...