Getting pregnant with michelle tea - xoJane

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Rescued By Baby Dykes & A Decision

Michelle Tea — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:30:00 -0400

On the drive home, as we just started out from Santa Monica, I announced, “I have two great ideas.”

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: To Quentin Or Not To Quentin?

Michelle Tea — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:30:00 -0400

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.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Catheter Cervix Torture And Shitty Dads

Michelle Tea — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:30:00 -0400

Do I know anyone with a good dad?

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Sperm Donor Debating

Michelle Tea — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:00:00 -0400

Donor kids suffer from a higher rate of depression, addiction and crime, regardless of the economic standing of their family.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: "There Is No Way I'm Fitting Into An XS Ever Again."

Michelle Tea — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0400

Smoking is for single people. Now that I found Dashiell, I want to live forever.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: I'm The Best Patient Ever!

Michelle Tea — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:30:00 -0500

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!

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Medication, Feelings, And Chocolate Benders

Michelle Tea — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:30:00 -0500

Maybe I can’t have nice things. A healthy uterus is a nice thing. So is a baby.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Scary Uterus Stuff

Michelle Tea — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:30:00 -0500

“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.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea -- I'm NOT Getting A Hysterectomy

Michelle Tea — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:30:00 -0500

You guys -– I KNOW that this whole getting pregnant thing, and hence, this blog, is taking forever.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Dashiell And I Are Embryo Nerds!

Michelle Tea — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:30:00 -0500

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.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: It's Time For Our IVF Orientation

Michelle Tea — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:30:00 -0500

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.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: I Can't Have Sex For A Month!

Michelle Tea — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:30:00 -0500

It’s frustrating when something is just a fact and you can’t call it out as anti-feminist propaganda.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Scrolling Through Sperm Donors

Michelle Tea — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:00:00 -0500

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!

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Should Dashiell and I Get ELF SPERM?

Michelle Tea — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:30:00 -0500

Does it seem like I am trying to genetically manipulate myself a strikingly beautiful baby? Because I am. Is that creepy or what?

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Dashiell Moves In, Rodney Bites a Hippie

Michelle Tea — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:30:00 -0500

“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.”

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Onward to Babymakingville!

Michelle Tea — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:00:00 -0500

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.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: Dashiell's Ovaries RULE!

Michelle Tea — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0500

The thing is, the fertility racket is (confoundlingly) heterosexual.

Getting Pregnant With Michelle Tea: How Babies Are Made When They're Made in Clinics

Michelle Tea — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:00:00 -0400

In Dr. Waller’s office, we learn how IVF works.

Michelle Tea: “You know why a man becomes a gynecologist?”

Michelle Tea — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:00:00 -0400

“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.”

Michelle Tea: Butch Baby Ranch!

Michelle Tea — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:00:00 -0400

“I can’t stop THE BLOG!” I wail to Dashiell.