Comments on: Friday Blog Roundup

By: Murray

Murray — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:45:00 +0000

Great post thanks. I’m already feeling this guilt… if I slip and have a bit of junk food then
I feel guilty etc etc. Or if some days I’m very tired and I think ‘can I really do this?’.

I highly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.ca/Baby-Four-Letter-Word-Surviving-Parenthood/dp/1552637514

She shares stories about how hard it is raising baby and how funny it is too. Made me laugh and was good to read. My sister has two kids and she is quite vocal about how it’s not all cute little baby pj’s and rocking the precious angels to sleep. She tells me how tired she is and how some days she feels trapped. Having an older sister is good that way. You get to learn vicariously…. if only women were more vocal about how they really feel about things.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:05:00 +0000

Motherhood is hard no matter how much you wanted your children. Thanks for that little bit of reassurance.

By: littleangelkisses

littleangelkisses — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:47:00 +0000

I haven’t ever written in. I didn’t struggle with infertility, but I read your blog today and teared up. Here’s why….in the section about how IVF women beat themselves up about how they feel after the baby is born….I was that woman…and felt horribly, terribly guilty.

I had a rare condition called Vasa Previa that by the grace of God, my doctor found. He saved my son’s life. Grant was born 9 weeks early, thought to have hydrocephalus and then my MIL died when he was a week old. I went through a lot of guilt and issues that you spoke to. I felt like I should be so eternally grateful to have him that I should NEVER be frustrated. It was all there in your post.
Thank you

By: The Town Criers

The Town Criers — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:47:00 +0000

I love how people are coming out of the woodwork with their psychic stories! I’ll have to post mine, but I will tell you that the only thing that DIDN’T come true was the stuff she said about children. So…I’m just going to make a blanket statement to take your minds off of it and say that they are rubbish at predicting pregnancies/children. So there.

By: Bea

Bea — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:23:00 +0000

Psychic stories: this plagues me in my paranoid days.

A palm reader once told me I'd only have one child. I was disappointed about this, and said, "But what about these little lines here? Surely I'm having four?"

And she looked at the lines, and she looked at me, with this dramatically sad look, and then she looked back down at my hand and paused, deep in reflection.

And then she said, in a voice which sounded uncomfortably strained, "That? Oh, don't worry about that. That's nothing."

Now, two of those lines are very faint. Two chemical pregnancies? And one is a little more prominent, but quite short. Anyone?

I mean, it's rubbish, right?

Bea

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:08:00 +0000

I have a funny story about seeing a psychic. I saw one years ago, long before I was married or TTC, and she said that I would have two kids, and that I would “do it the right way” (her words), meaning that I would get married, then have children. Ok. Then, she said that I would get pregnant “so fast, it will shock you.” HA! She went on to say something like, once you and your husband decide to start a family, it will happen LIKE THAT (snapping fingers).

My friend sees that psychic once every couple years, and the last time she went, I told her to hit her for me!