On the drive home, as we just started out from Santa Monica, I announced, “I have two great ideas.”
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getting pregnant with michelle tea
As scary it is to know we don’t have complete control over the creation of our little family, I think it’s a blessing. Really no one has control over their families, or over anything.
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Do I know anyone with a good dad?
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Donor kids suffer from a higher rate of depression, addiction and crime, regardless of the economic standing of their family.
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Smoking is for single people. Now that I found Dashiell, I want to live forever.
getting pregnant with michelle tea
I am bizarrely proud of myself and immediately want Marina to hang out in the room praising me for nonsense all day. The best patient!
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Maybe I can’t have nice things. A healthy uterus is a nice thing. So is a baby.
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“We should just get in there and look inside,” she says, agreeing with Dr. Waller. There for sure is something at the top of my uterine cavity, quite possibly a freaking fibroid.
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You guys -– I KNOW that this whole getting pregnant thing, and hence, this blog, is taking forever.
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I’m having one of those happy, delusional moments where I love science so much I wonder if I should finally go to college and study to be a neurophysicist.
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This crowd is a bunch of middle-aged heterosexuals tired from their 8 hours at the J.O.B., a little exhausted by their pregnancy fails, a little scared and nervous and hopeful and overwhelmed by what they are about to step into.
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It’s frustrating when something is just a fact and you can’t call it out as anti-feminist propaganda.
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Dashiell mostly wants the baby to look like a mini-us, which I understand but I know that my own beauty can be improved upon, and as a mother I just want what’s best for our baby!
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Does it seem like I am trying to genetically manipulate myself a strikingly beautiful baby? Because I am. Is that creepy or what?
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“I’m not going to press charges,” Candy says, “But a lot of people would. You should know that. Your dog could be put down for this.”
pregnancy
At 41, I am in a stable relationship. I’m financially stable. Thanks to my meds, I’m emotionally stable. It’s crazy that now, when I am most suited to have kids, my body is over it.
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The thing is, the fertility racket is (confoundlingly) heterosexual.
insemination
In Dr. Waller’s office, we learn how IVF works.
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“He’s going to take this -- wand,” I warn her, “And put it up your hooch.” Dashiell makes a terrible face. “It’s like he’s playing a video game. He’s going to get it up there and clear a screen of Ms. Pac-Man.”
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“I can’t stop THE BLOG!” I wail to Dashiell.
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Every now and then something surges inside me and I think, that’s a feeling. But then it goes away.
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Aug 21, 2012 at 3:00pm | 60 comments
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No, I don’t know if my birth father is alive or dead but last I heard he was alive but that was some years ago and he’d told me he was having heart problems and then his phone got disconnected and who knows. Ugh. Do I even want to pass on these genes?
