We had fertility issues. Of this I have made no secret. We actually know three other couples who had fertility issues and met with success using precisely the same drug that is responsible for the medical miracle known as Zachary.
One of those couples is a cousin and his wife. Feeling some sort of cousinly rivalry, they couldn’t just conceive a child on the same drug we used. No, they conceived twins just a few months after I got pregnant with Benjamin. Twin boys (who, I might add, were successfully breastfed for a very long time. I add this because every time I think of it, I gasp in awe of their mother. I think I would have needed to be catheterized had I breastfed two children at the same time.)
Well, it seems we are once again in lockstep, because these fools were using the same damned birth control that we were. With the same results. When are people going to learn? A PAST HISTORY OF INFERTILITY IS A LOUSY METHOD OF BIRTH CONTROL. Write it down, OK?
So, to our cousins, congratulations. To the other two couples we know who conceived children on the same drug as we did? I hope you people are paying attention.
15 responses so far ↓
Blooming Desertpea // April 28, 2008 at 2:45 pm |
Well, on the other hand it might be the healthiest and easiest birthcontrol on this planet, you know … you cannot blame people for using that one, then.
Becky // April 28, 2008 at 2:49 pm |
Congrats to your cousins!
slouching mom // April 28, 2008 at 3:00 pm |
perhaps the drugs prime the pump, as it were?
Jennifer H // April 28, 2008 at 3:10 pm |
Remind me to use neither one of those methods. This ride is closed.
Congratulations to your cousin!
inthefastlane // April 28, 2008 at 4:33 pm |
Heh….I must be the most fertile woman on the planet. It didn’t matter what B.C we used (and sometimes more than one). I have three lovely surprises and one husband who now has no more little swimmers (snip, snip…).
theramblinghousewife // April 28, 2008 at 5:31 pm |
It’s crazy how that always happens to “infertile” couples!
I’ve heard of this happening so many times.
One woman I worked with . . .it took her 5 years to get pregnant with the first (including using fertility treatments)
She ended up pregnant with #2, when her baby was 2 months old.
Seriously . . .her children ended up being like a year apart . . .almost to the day!
Victoria // April 28, 2008 at 5:41 pm |
Congrats to the Cousins! We’re done. Hubby said so.
I think we’re gonna get a new puppy.
Rebecca // April 28, 2008 at 6:56 pm |
Send some of that stuff my way, huh?
magpie // April 28, 2008 at 7:17 pm |
LOL. That ain’t never happening to ME.
karen // April 28, 2008 at 7:23 pm |
what’s so funny is that when your post title included the words health class, I knew someone was preggo.
Blog Antagonist // April 28, 2008 at 7:37 pm |
I wonder if that’s the same drug my sister used. She just found out she is pregnant after needing fertility drugs and IUI to conceive. She has an 8 year old and 4 year old twins. They were not using birth control because…well…why would they???
Angela // April 28, 2008 at 9:15 pm |
Heh. When John and I were engaged, we were told that our combined fertility issues would make conception nothing short of a miracle. We were told to begin “trying” as soon as possible, since I would require a hysterectomy sooner rather than later, and age is of course, always a factor. We were told it would take months, if not longer, to conceive Laura.
Laura was born six months after we were married.
Catherine // April 29, 2008 at 12:32 am |
That’s fantastic.
My OB told me (after months of confusing and frustrating experiences trying to conceive the first time) that I would likely never conceive without use of drugs. I found out a few weeks later that I was pregnant at the time he told me this news…
Painted Maypole // April 29, 2008 at 1:55 am |
oh my!
Emily // April 29, 2008 at 5:45 am |
I can’t even recall how many times I’ve heard this same story.
Congratulations to you and to your cousin! Babies all around!