Blo Challenege Day 26

So I have to admit that yesterday is possibly in the running for the worst day of my life.  It's at least in the top five.  I spent much of today at work alone (thankfully) with my anger.  I got off work at 2:30, came home, started cleaning the kitchen and put on 90's music on iTunes.  This seems to have helped a bit.  Nothing like escaping back to an easier time in life! 
But I am not one to abandon a project....so here it is dear readers: Day 26 of useless ramblings from Kati! 
Day 26 - Were you the product of infertility? Was anyone you know the product of infertility? How do you know? Or do you just suspect based on circumstances like age differences between siblings, time between marriage and conception, etc.


I am not the product of infertility.  My mother always used the "I just had to hang my clothes next to your father and I'd get Pregnant" line.  (Just what you like to remember when you're dealing with IF yourself.)  I am the product of a m/c though...I've been told several times that my mother had been four and a half months along with a boy that she m/c due to crawling through a window when she locked herself out with my toddler brother inside.  The doctor told her, the easiest way to get over the pain, was to wait a month and get PG again.  Oh so easy!  Well, it was for her.  I came along very soon after. 
Jeff is also not from IF dealings...His parents were married for five years before having him.  But it's because they were young.  His mom said they waited to have children, and gave her daughter the same advice (who did also wait several years to "enjoy being married" before trying.  Since Jeff was 36 when we got married, she didn't pass on this advice to us LOL.  Good thing!
I do know a few adopted kids that are a result of their parents dealing with IF, most namely Skippy (Matt Schipper).  He's told his mother of our struggles and passes on her sympathy from having dealt with that in the early 80's. 
There is also a family friend, who now has a 13 year old daughter as a product of IVF.  She's an amazing girl who is 13 going on 35. 
And finally, I suspect my cousin.  Because I know she was told at age 18 her endo was so bad she'd never have kids.  But after about 8 years of marriage she got PG.  She was about 33 at the time, and it would have been about 1999, so I know there had been advances and I know women with endo on 3T.  But since I've only seen her at weddings and funerals in the past 15 years (maybe five times in those years) - I don't feel close enough to come right out and ask her. 
With these various stories, as well as the few women at work that told me of their stories from the 90's going through IF, and personally knowing a girl from HS who's dealing with it, and of course my friend Lauren - I have no trouble believing the statistic of 1 in 8 couples face IF.  So when you feel "everyone" around you is getting pregnant try to remember this statistic.  Because there are sure to be many more people who just don't feel comfortable talkig about it, but are suffering silently.  None of us are totally alone in this fight. 
And now as I write those last few sentences a few tears are starting to roll down my cheek, so I will go listen to so angst from Alanis Morrisette to stop it.