Resolve TeleSeminars!

Resolve, the National Infertility Association is hosting teleseminars!!! Here is the info: RESOLVE’s Summer TeleSeminar Tour: Spend Your Summer Educating Yourself on Your Family Building Options Join RESOLVE for one or all of these upcoming FREE TeleSeminars, hosted by RESOLVE professional members—family building experts from across the country. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 9:00PM ET. August 6: I Need Someone To Talk To: Why Join a Support Group?, [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 28, 2009
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Would you tell?

So, I belong to the best online community in the world, ChocolateBrides.com(stop on by, we’d love to have you). CB is the place where I learned how common this battle truly is and have received more support and information than I even think I was ready to get. Recently, there was a discussion titled “For IVF and Alternative Reproductive Moms: Will you Tell? Would you Tell?” What an interesting topic. [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 27, 2009
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Just don’t fit in anywhere…but I gotta create a road.

I’m tall, but not skinny.Intelligent but not very smart sometimes.I can write my ass off, but am socially retarded when it comes to talking to people on phones or sometimes in person.I’m pretty, but don’t really think Beautiful….I’m strong-willed but not intentionally arrogant or stubborn…I’m a mother figure, but not a mother. How awful a feeling it is to be everything and nothing all at once. Sometimes I feel so [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 23, 2009
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Sticks and Stones…

I love Comedy. My husband and I collect dvd’s of comedic standups we love, I am an avid viewer of comedy central standup hours, and I even have a comedy digital playlist on Imeem. When I was a little girl, my mother would banish me from the room during Def Comedy Jam, though I would find a way to either sneak the channel on my television or watch from a [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 21, 2009
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Talk about making omelets out of broken eggs.Meet Tarah. ********************************************************************************** First a little bit about me and how I got here. I met the love of my life in 1997 and we’ve been together ever since. In 2005 we tied the knot and soon realized that we wanted to build our family. Sadly, growing our family didn’t come easy. We have suffered 3 losses and after the third loss I [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 21, 2009
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20 Reasons to be okay with not being pregnant or having a baby right now…

…because sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying. 20. I can drink as much as I want.19. I don’t have to cut up anyone else’s chicken tenders at the dinner table.18. I can go on vacation and only be responsible for myself.17. I don’t have to pay for babysitting.16. Baby clothes can be expensive.15. I’m not good at styling children’s hair.14. I can drink as much as I [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 20, 2009
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Open Letters…Dear God.

Dear God, I think you put the wrong uterus in here. Signed,You can send me replacements in the mail and I’ll send these back in the return envelope.

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 16, 2009
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The Selfishness of Neccessity

Close your eyes. Now, while they’re closed, I want you to map out the way you got to your locker everyday in high school. Got it? Okay, now, I want you to visualize what you would do when you got to your locker. Did you put books away, take them out? What was on the top shelf? Did you have a locker mirror on the inner door? Is that an [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 16, 2009
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Since we were on the topic…

So, yesterday I told you guys about Hostile Cervical Mucus and how it can attack sperm. Well, there are some other battles that poor little sperm has to overcome to try and catch the egg. I know, you could have gone your whole life without knowing any of this, but hey, it is what it is. In the land of TryingToConcieve, repeated sexual interaction specifically for procreation, can lead to [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 15, 2009
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You Have to Break a Few Eggs to Make an Omelet

New name, new attitude, new push. I want so much to provide an honest and important space. It is so needed that I don’t want to mess up. So, I was spreading the word today about the new web address and a friend of mine actually said something that paused me. She said the new name was a bit sad. That took me for a loop. I had thought and [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 15, 2009
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I didn’t walk alone…submitted by Monette, a friend of The Broken Brown

The following was submitted by a friend of the BBE. It gives a glimpse into her struggle with infertility and gives a brief definition of another unknown hurdle, Hostile Cervical Mucus. The Broken Brown thanks and salutes you Moe!************************************************************************************I didn’t walk alone … On July 8, 2005 my walk turned into a run. It was the day after two years of natural trying for conception that I was diagnosed with [...]

By Mrs.Tiye | Jul 13, 2009
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Knowing your Limits

It is apparently baby season. Which I guess, to be fair, for the ttc EVERY season may seem like baby season. Everyone is glowing, everyone is blossoming and all the new babies are more adorable than ever before. Or at least it seems that way. Sigh. So, I got caught up today. I was looking through the photo albums and online journals of friends who have recently been blessed with [...]