Blog Challenge: 17 & 18

Day 17 - Discuss the most ridiculous thing you ever heard about conception. Where did you hear it? Did it work for someone else? Did you try it?  I have to say hands down the most ridiculous thing actually came to me second hand.  My husband told me that it came up at bowling that we had been trying for a while to have a baby.  And after some of the usual stupidity jokes, the 78 year old dad of one of Jeff's bowling buddies said AND I QUOTE " You need to let it soak."  Huh? What the hell does that mean?  Jeff and I had good laughs trying to come up with what the old man could have meant by that.  We figure either a) he meant lay there for a while after sex, don't get up.  ie let the sperm have "soaking time" in my vajayjay. LOL.  OK, we'd heard that one before.  Or (and more funny to us) b)let the penis stay in you for a while? Either way, every now and then when TTC comes up at home, Jeff will just look at me and say "We just need to let it soak!"  Needless to say, I don't know if it's "worked" for anyone since we still don't really know what it is.  And thus, it's hard to try something you're unsure of what it is. 


Day 18 - Besides Mothers Day, what is the hardest holiday for you as an infertile?  This is going to sound very silly...but the hardest holiday is actually the made up holiday at my In Laws....Polish Thanksgiving.  It's usually the last weekend in September.  It's Jeff and I, SIL, BIL, nephews, MIL, FIL and the family that my in laws have been friends with for about 35 years.  My best friend married one of the kids in that family.  So it's the parents (60s), four kids and their spouses (in their 30's and 40's) and now - their kids (there are four, soon to be five).  When I first started going to Polish Turkey Day there was only one kid, so for the last several years it's been about the new additions.  And being pregnant.  And giving birth. And nap time, and what they eat, and if they need to be changed.  Etc. Etc. Etc.  Now - don't get me wrong... I love Polish Thanksgiving.  But at least with all other holidays, I have memories with my family and no "baby talk".  But these past five years it's been almost non-stop baby agenda for the women.  And each year it gets a little harder and a little harder to have to be there without one of my own.