The couch sores will now fester for a different reason: baby. Before it was just pure laziness, but these days, it really is physically difficult to get myself off the couch. So the story goes like this: a couple years ago, Tim and I thought we might be reaching a point in our lives where we were ready to reproduce (attempt to avoid visualizing). We got up the courage to "try," thinking this was it. After having been so careful in the past, one time is all it takes, right? Well yeah, for some people, like those women who ovulate 16 times a month. Well let's just say it took more than one try. After spending months believing the slightest twinge or symptom was pregnancy, multiple negative pregnancy tests, several months of no drinking for no good reason (I attended my 10th high school reunion sober... terrible mistake), we started to feel a little hopeless. I can't tell you how many times I heard "just stop trying and it will happen!" That is neither true...
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