747th Friday Blog Roundup

Is your fertility app funded by an anti-abortion group or individual? It is 2019. We actually need to ask that.

It has been a long time since my days on FertilityFriend (which is now an app, too!), but it feels like a really simple time where websites were owned by humans you could reach and your data kept private and no one was trying to manipulate your emotions, with the exception of that one girl who would always sprinkle everyone with baby dust. (You know that every site had one.)

Something else: I was moved that Nick Foles announced the reason he was absent from practice was because his wife had a pregnancy loss at 15 weeks. I love that he was upfront about it, and that the family took the time they needed to mourn. When people talk about it, others can give support and comfort AND it makes it easier for the next person to speak up, too.

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Stop procrastinating.  Go make your backups.  Don’t have regrets.

Seriously.  Stop what you’re doing for a moment.  It will take you fifteen minutes, tops.  But you will have peace of mind for days and days.  It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week.  In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• None… sniff.

Okay, now my choices this week.

Inconceivable! is hit by a wave of sadness when she considers her upcoming (and final) transfer. She writes, “That’s life, though, isn’t it? At least after a certain point? Where the most extraordinary exists among the prosaic of every day and the deepest, darkest muck that can be dragged up?” It is a gorgeous, bittersweet post about all of life’s “ands.”

Dreaming of Diapers has a post about her uterine lining. It’s one of those posts I want to send to people when they say, “But you can always do IVF.” Um… this is what IVF is like. These types of difficult moments and emotional highs are part of the process. She writes, “I’ll be honest. It terrifies me to think about transferring one of my precious embryos into my uterus. I mean TERRIFIES. I just want to give it a chance. But maybe by confirming that my uterus is actually ‘receptive,’ that will give me some confidence? Even if I have extremely thin lining?” Sending her so many good thoughts for the transfer.

Lastly, The Road Less Travelled has a book that has been on my TBR list forever. (I secretly keep waiting for it to go on sale as an e-book.) Her post is about finding those IF connections in non-IF spaces and stories. The book is a reminder that “We don’t always know the full story. Sometimes, we need to skip the speculation and the judgment, and just give the other guy a break.” Which book is it? I guess you’ll need to click over to see…

The roundup to the Roundup: Check who funds your fertility app and other news. Your weekly backup nudge.  And lots of great posts to read.  So what did you find this week?  Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between May 31st and June 7th) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week?  Read the original open thread post here.