Just a random post

Just a bit of a random post about something I've been thinking about

All throughout our struggle we were always told of "those stories", you know the ones where the person tried everything medically (both western and Asian/Chinese medicine) and as soon as they stopped it all and either took a break or "relaxed" they fell pregnant.
Now I know for some people these stories may have helped but I hated hearing them, nearly as much as I hated hearing that all we had to do was relax, take a break or that it would happen when the time was right.


For me, while these stories are nice and I am excited for the people it happened for, I never ever imagined we would be one of them.

Hearing people tell me these stories of people they know always frustrated me. I always felt as though our struggles were being somewhat disregarded or that we were being over dramatic and that as soon as we just let thing happen it would work out for us.

And now we are one of those stories.

We tried for three and a half years, had many tests, tried many drugs and even IVF only to fall pregnant naturally.
I hope when people hear our story it won't upset them, although I'm sure for the ones it does they will still put on the brave face and thank the person for sharing, just like I did and than go home and either yell, cry or just want to punch something!


While relaxing is always going to be good for the body, it is not a cure for infertility.
One of the things we have heard a lot of since announcing we are pregnant is "see I told you all you needed to do was to relax" I don't know why people suddenly think we were relaxing??
In fact the month we fall pregnant was a particularly stressful month for us, definitely not relaxing!



I wish the cure for infertility was something as simple as just relaxing. If that were the case instead of spending the thousands and thousands of dollars that we have on medical treatment, we would have spent it on a nice holiday where we could have just relaxed on the beach ;)