Friday, August 15, 2008

Reason 5 Why Infertility Sucks: Because Fertiles Whine.

Somewhat related to previous reasons, and yet in a category on its own:

Whiny fertiles.

"I feel so faaaaaaaaaat!"

"I can't sleeeeeeep!"

"I'm not working while I'm home with my baby so we have no moneeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!"

Oh, just shut up.

Seriously. Shut up.

You have no idea whatsoever how lucky you are. You really haven't the foggiest.

They even whine about trying to get pregnant - as if they understood. "Well, it took us six months to conceive little Bradley FooFoo - so I totally get where you are."

No, you don't. No, you really fucking don't. Try six years, lady. Try barrels of pee on thousands of dollars worth of sticks. Try years of sex as a means to an end instead of sex as recreation. Try involving a football team worth of people in your fertility routine - and even better, try having exams in front of what feels like a football pitch filled with screaming freaks.

I get that you whine because you don't understand. And I wouldn't wish this on anybody. But when you do whine, I want to slap you, because you have no idea how minor, how inane your worries are. You really, really do not know, you cannot know, you have no frame of reference to know how minor those worries are, how much I would be able to put those worries and whines aside and simply say, yep, I am a whale, yep, I haven't had a good night's sleep in a year, yep, I'm broke, and I chose this. I pursued this. I did this to myself, on purpose, and I will take the bad with the good because this is what I wanted.

Because sweetheart, make no mistake:

I would stay up every single night even though my eyes would be falling out of my head.
I would live on kraft dinner and milk even though I craved a steak.
I would buy maternity clothes in XXXXL and wear them proudly.

If I had what you have.

3 comments:

Soralis said...

It's been a while for me... but I hear ya!

Anonymous said...

You're killin me softly with this song. Thanks so much for your blogging and your posts. They are comforting me since you are saying what I feel.

Anonymous said...

You are spot on with this. Even having realized our dream, I really can't stand the whining. And I stopped talking to a friend who at 40 was upset she couldn't get pregnant with her second and so her kids would be more than 2 years apart. She'd been trying four months and guess what -- she was pregnant when complaining to me. I'm tired, my marriage sucks, I have to support our family, she doesn't sleep through the night (at 18 months), and I have gone out alone with girlfriends no more than six times since she was born, and I DON'T GIVE A SHIT. I am so damned lucky that after 10 attempts, six losses (including her twin), she is here. This is officially a no WHINING zone.