And today, a reminder why I'm on the adoption wagon instead of the fertility treatment wagon

[marydell]

I've been sick with some kind of food-poisony thing for a couple of days. In fact I was so sick that yesterday I just slept with the cat on top of me (when I wasn't, ahem, more directly engaging with the illness), and today I just lay on the couch watching realtime TV, since the tivo'd stuff is usually watched with my husband, and I didn't have the brain power to absorb anything like "John Adams" anyway.

Discovery Health is one of my favorite channels - and I see they have a show called The Baby Lab. As an infertile chick, I'm interested in ye olde reproductive technology (although I do not partake, being on the adoption track myself). So I look at the info thingy for the show and it says "an in vitro fertilization is unsuccessful, a couple suffers from miscarriage, a failed vasectomy reversal." Um, whee? Who writes these things?

Of course I ended up watching most of the damn thing anyway. End tally: 3 happy couples with babies, 2 devastated couples whose crushing disappointments were recorded on camera for all to see. HOWL.

Comments

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that means a lot to me! I certainly have angst about it (blog: http://www.canary3d.com/torrefaction/2007/12/do_the_right_thing.html), but hopefully I've got my eyes open enough to do an okay job despite my white privilege. It's strange to think of my child living in a parallel, crueller world, but I'm trying to learn about what that world is really like, and hopefully make it better, or easier to navigate.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Don't worry too much about it (interracial couples would be disapproved of as well, believe me, which I would find particularly annoying). Loving a child is a tough enough job as it is, and its rewards are infinite.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) I think it'll work out well...if it ever happens! Right now it's just training, training, training.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I hope it happens soon!