{"id":6468,"date":"2011-03-10T21:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2011-03-10T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:39:15","slug":"a-conversation-i-never-thought-id-be-having","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/6468","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation I Never Thought I’d Be Having"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I said something I never thought I\u2019d be saying to my husband.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he ever expected it either, but sometimes life brings you to places you never thought you\u2019d be.<\/p>\n

A little while ago I said the following words\u2026<\/p>\n

Honey, are you sure you don\u2019t mind if I show everyone your sperm?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Really, how many people really ever have a situation where they have that<\/em> conversation?!<\/p>\n

Lucky for us, he doesn\u2019t mind!<\/p>\n

Today was our fifth IUI<\/a> and while we were at the hospital the lady in the lab asked if we wanted to see Xander\u2019s boys under the microscope.\u00a0 Umm, hell yeah we do!<\/p>\n

\"Project<\/a><\/p>\n

It was SO cool to see!\u00a0 Of course, a few seconds after I saw it I thought hrmmm\u2026 if my eye can see them, maybe my camera can too! <\/em>Sure enough, it worked!\u00a0 This photo is taken through the eye thingie on the microscope, cool huh?<\/p>\n

It was a small sample that they use to look at the sperm during the sperm washing<\/a> process. So none of these actually got to the final destination.\u00a0 They were the guiney pigs of sperm, so to speak.<\/p>\n

It is a very stressful day for me, when we go for the IUI.\u00a0 I get extremely anxious and tense, so this sort of broke up the monotony and gave me something to giggle about for a few minutes, which was great.<\/p>\n

I think I squealed a little when I realized that I actually managed to capture them on camera.<\/p>\n

There are so many aspects of conceiving a child that we miss out on.\u00a0 For a lot of people it\u2019s a really joyous occasion that doesn\u2019t have any negativity connected to it at all.\u00a0 People make their babies the natural way, before tension and pressure manages to start to ruin their sex lives.\u00a0 They get to tell their children the \u201cwhen two people love each other the man puts his\u2026\u201d story, whereas we\u2019d perhaps end up telling the \u201cTurkey Baster Story\u201d.<\/p>\n

As much as we will love a child if we are ever lucky enough to have one, the process has been grueling and we do feel like some of what other people get out of it has been ripped away from us.<\/p>\n

Apparently there are some advantages of infertility though.\u00a0 How many women actually get photos of their man\u2019s tadpoles?!\u00a0 The everyday woman who gets knocked up home in bed, in the backseat or on a park bench probably never get the opportunity to see the science of it all, and we have that all around us. \u00a0That’s pretty cool…<\/p>\n

Hey, every story needs a silver lining, and today this is mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I said something I never thought I\u2019d be saying to my husband.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he ever expected it either, but sometimes life brings you to places you never thought you\u2019d be. A little while ago I said the following words\u2026 Honey, are you sure you don\u2019t mind if I show everyone your sperm? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[144,875,570,569,16],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-funny-shit","tag-dutch-doctors","tag-funny-shit","tag-hospital-visits","tag-infertility","tag-project-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}