Looking for books to help you through your fertility funk? Here are a few that I used to bring me back when I was teetering on the edge of baby-crazy. You know what I’m talking about. ‘Crazy Baby-Making Lady’ is pretty much like the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ equivalent. Except we can smell our own HcG spikes and talk to our uterine linings instead of to Fluffy the calico. But I digress..
I remember feeling totally jipped by Mother’s Day while I was trying for Baby Girl.
I knew I wasn’t a mom yet but come on. No wine, no soft cheeses, no caffeine, no sushi..and I had to sit there as my family toasted every freaking mother on the planet adding sweetly-intentioned supportive comments like ‘..and soon, God willing, Kat will be a mother too..”
The applause and clinks of glasses softly blurred the sound of my head hitting the table repeatedly. Kill. Me. Now.
You should feel 110% comfortable with your fertility specialist, because you are going to spend some very intimate moments with them. That is in all likelihood, an understatement. If you have a first appointment looming in your agenda, here’s what you want to ask before you get down and dirty.
Will you be taking any samples at my first appointment?
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Kat Inokai Pembleton is a brand strategist, creative director, and mom. Sometimes she pretends she has her own reality show. Living through renos while balancing business and a toddler will do that to you.
In 2011, Kat went from project planning to family planning for baby number 2. She's traded in her dream job as Project Manager for the Yummy Mummy Club, to focus on health, fertility, and expanding her amazing little family.
Trying Times is all about her most private life: hardships with loss, fertility clinics, ultrasounds, and grappling with personal ambition while discovering mummyhood.
It's not a clinical accounting of events, nor is it a pity party. It's more wining than whining; dark-humoured truth than sugar-coated honesty. It's about getting positive and staying positive (in every sense of the word) on your way to - and after getting -your Big Fat Postiive.
Some people think Kat is nuts to put all this out in the public domain, and she is. But not because of the blogging.
Follow Kat on Twitter: @bumpandhustle as she tweets from the hip about business, motherhood, and the art of the whole shebang.
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