The Saga of Becoming Fruitful

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The Horses are Gone!

Good riddance!

This infertility journey blog has a new frontpage picture instead of those horses… I am not a horse and I am not in a race (fertility or otherwise), so I didn’t really like that. For those of you who just discovered this blog, good for you - you did not have to withstand those pack of galloping horses.

What’s with the new picture? Nothing really. I could intellectualize it and say that it depicts the connection of women through their infertility - that the repetitive pattern shows the woman’s reproductive organs with 2 ovaries and the uterus; that each of this pattern is connected with each other - and therefore arrive to that conclusion!

The photo was actually taken by my brother at the Epcot Center last April 2007. It’s an architectural detail of one of the country’s buildings there - probably Morocco. It was originally all brown wood but after some coaxing, DH edited its color in CorelDraw to make it blue-hued so that the picture blends well with the theme of this infertility journey blog.

Hope you like it, too!

Now, Where to Begin this Blog?

As of today, I am in the middle of my first injectable cycle with my new doctor. (This is actually by third injectable cycle, all in all, considering the 2 cycles with my previous doctor.) So, I am unsure where and how to begin this infertility blog.

I’m thinking about first backtracking as early as the first infertility diagnosis procedures with my new doctor so that this blog makes chronological sense. That means, I will be posting recent history first before current events. I wonder though if and when I will ever get current? (Why didn’t I start blogging about our infertility journey earlier??? Good question I ask myself a couple of times already.)

I’m thinking also of just starting with current events right now and then just intersperse the recent history as I have time to do that in retrospect. It will feel like a bad movie with a lot of flashbacks… but it will be easier for me.

Decisions, decisions…

Aha!!! I thought of something that will have the best of both worlds - starting current while having recent history still posted chronologically.
- I will be starting with current events (using current date as the publishing/posting date).
- I will post recent history, as I am able to write (using previous dates as the publishing/posting date)

As for my pre-new doctor saga, I will just create a separate page in this infertility blog in addition to this Home page (tabs on the top) to capture it. I will be revising them as I feel inspired.

BTW, I know I will have to eventually quit calling her my “new” doctor. For now though, let’s call her that - my new doctor.

Being Fruitful

I was thinking about what the blog title of my infertility journey was going to be instead of what I’ve thought through earlier. A verse in the bible entered my mind - something about God telling Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply”.

I opened www.biblegateway.com and used “multiply” as the search word. The search results showed verses starting with Genesis 9 which was already about Noah. I thought, hmmm, all this time did I mistakenly attribute this phrase as being spoken to Adam and Eve?

So I did another search and used “be fruitful” as the search phrase. And lo and behold, God indeed spoke this to Adam and Eve in Genesis 1!

I meant the blog title to reflect God’s direction to be physiologically fruitful (have children) as in the context of Genesis 1:8 and Genesis 9:1. However as I was thinking more about it, I realized that being fruitful is more than just trying to conceive, getting pregnant and bearing children.

Even in the midst of the infertility journey, surely there is fruitfulness for a woman. So although, the emphasis of this blog is on being fruitful - the baby kind - I would be writing about fruitfulness of a different kind from time to time.

Ancient and Trying

Originally, I wanted to call this blog “ancient and trying” but after bouncing off the idea with my husband, he cringed a bit. Not sure if it was the idea that his wife (moi!) was already 40 and no longer the “young” woman she married… or maybe he thought that “ancient and trying” is not a very graceful blog title. Whatever…

So we brainstormed a bit and got to “40 and trying” which sounded good at that time. It would capture my current situation. . However, now that I’m ready to start the blog, I realized that it was not necessarily representative of what I’d like to write about.

So here I am with this new blog - “The Saga of Becoming Fruitful” - our journey through infertility.

I would be very delighted if you leave me a comment so I’ll know what you thinking, too!

Thanks for visiting!