Baby-making Sex

     Now I'm sure we all know how babies are made and specifically the action that needs to take place for a baby to be produced so I won't get into all that. However, when you are trying to conceive and more so when you are having trouble getting pregnant, the whole baby making process becomes more complicated and sometimes difficult. Instead of all the love and fun of sex when its purely for pleasure, baby-making sex becomes a bit clinical. You have to do on certain days- specifically the fertile days and you have to use special lubricant. Now I have always heard that no matter how and when you do it there is no pregnancy proof way of having sex. It is very true that every which way you can imagine, some woman has gotten pregnant doing it. However, when you are ready to have children and ready right now you end up trying a whole lot harder. One thing that I have struggled with and am trying so hard to overcome is to bring back the magic of fun sex. My husband and I are young and fun and there is no reason we should become robots or become boring. 

     One thing that is helping us is that this cycle we are going to try an IUI (intrauterine insemination). That means instead of stressing over timing and process we are skipping it altogether and letting the experts do their thing. Tomorrow, we will go into the office and my husband will give his contribution. The doctor will then take his sample, wash it and prepare it. Then the doctor will inject that sample directly where it is needed.  That means that everything that my husband and I do will be just for ourselves because that IUI will be exactly at the right time and so no stress for us. 

     Now even with perfect timing and all the components being present, there is still only a 20% chance of getting pregnant each cycle. But I won't give up till I have a little one in my arms. 

    Since I am heading into the boring time (two week wait) of my cycle, I will be focusing on anything but baby-making. I have a few projects that I have been meaning to start and now is the time to do them. But all that is for another post.