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Infertility Blogs

August 5, 2006 — 3:34 am

As you can see on the right I joined a blog listing of TTC/Pregnant/Moms. I’m enjoying going around and peeking in on different blogs.

But I realize, as I do that, that I’m in a weird kind of in-between. I notice that the TTC blogs are all infertility blogs – women who have been struggling for a year, two years, ten years. We’re not technically classified as infertile yet, as we haven’t hit the 1 year mark. And it made me wonder why I’m the only one writing about TTC before the year is up. It’s not like at one year you suddenly start feeling the pain (though I’m sure that finally getting classified as one is hard to grapple with). I’m willing to bet it’s due to two factors: one, the ones who aren’t yet at that point either hit that point, or get pregnant; and two, most women who are TTC for less than a year don’t invest too much into it. Now I know the latter isn’t really true, because I’m on forums where people are heavily invested. But I guess I’m one of the few blog addicts. ;)

For now I guess we just hope, and read, and hope some more. Let us be one of the ones who don’t make it to a year.

3 responses to “Infertility Blogs”

  1. S. says:

    There are a few blogs on the list by people trying less than a year. Not many, mind you — and I think your hypothesis about why that is is spot on — but there are a few. I’m going to list them and hope I don’t trigger your spam filter. :-)

    This is my life
    the twinkle in my eye
    Butterbeans & Baby Dreams
    My English Blog
    No Longer a Prego
    Mrs. Flinger
    The Island
    Making a Life
    Waiting for my Popett

  2. Nat says:

    Well you did trigger it but it just gets sent to moderation so it’s all good. :D Thanks for the links! I’ll definitely be checking them out.

  3. erin says:

    there are a lot of ttc blogs from mothering.com too. i read them sometimes, i am pulling to live vicariously trough everyone on the internet it seems.