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Every Friday for the last three and a half years, I've written a weekly roundup of the posts that stick with me after I click off the blog. I read a lot of blogs and I noticed a few months into blogging that I was finding posts that were comment-less and I was unsure if others had seen the same post and simply clicked away without commenting or if I had the sole knowledge of the post's greatness. So I started the roundup so others could see what I had noticed and hopefully, we could have more discussion on those posts.
Every once in a while, a week pops up where I have way too many posts bookmarked and not enough space to discuss the posts. And this seemed like a perfect spillover space to introduce you to a smattering of posts from the ALI community this week.
Bottoms Off and On the Table has a post about whether or not to do another IVF cycle using her eggs or to switch to using donor eggs. I wish these sorts of posts would be required reading for anyone in the mainstream media writing about infertility. These are the real questions that infertile men and women grapple with. I know it sells more newspapers to say that women are turning to IVF because we want a baby NOW, but it's simply not reality.
Life From Here has a post contrasting one of her more famous posts from last year concerning an emotional breakdown in a pumpkin patch, with life this year. Same space near Halloween, but now, with her daughter in tow. It's really amazing to reflect on what a difference a year can make.
Relaxing Doesn't Make Babies has a post about finding the heartbeat and seeing her ten-weeker on the ultrasound screen. It doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary, except as this post contrasts with pregnancy posts I've read on unassisted concept blogs (you know, like normal life). I love Nat's last line: "This is why I’m going through hell… and why I’ll go through it again and again."
Lastly, Still Life with Circles has a post about honesty and blogging--being honest with ourselves, whether our blogs reflect our reality, and what is the point of writing if not to get the truth out of bodies so we can examine it from another angle? It is a beautiful post that is about processing the loss of her daughter as much as it is navigating her current pregnancy.
What great posts have you read lately?
Melissa is the author of the infertility and pregnancy loss blog, Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters. She keeps a categorized blogroll of over 2000 infertility blogs and writes the daily Lost and Found and Connections Abound, a news source for the infertility blogosphere. Her infertility book, Navigating the Land of If, is currently on bookshelves (May, 2009).
