Why We Wouldn't Really Name The Kid Murray

On Scrubs, Matthew Perry guest stars as a guy named Murray. He's walking around with Zack Braff, SoopahGenius, talking about how cruel his dad was, naming him an old guy's name. To illustrate, he shouts "MURRAY!" and out of every door on the ward emerges an old guy saying "WHAT?"

Advanced Fertility Treatments

Maybe just thinking this will unleash a shitstorm of anger but hell, maybe it won't. I was watching Birth Day, a show that features a couple of women giving birth, blood, white goo and all. I've watched it for years, though through our summer of fertility trouble I'd sort of stopped.

The episode in question was entitled 'Infertility' or something like that and it had 2 women giving birth after fertility treatments. I popped open a cold one (Sprite) and settled back to be regaled with tales of IVF or other advanced treatments. I was stunned, absolutely stunned when they said the first woman had taken Clomid (a drug that, it seems, half the western world now takes to try to conceive, thanks to the vast quantities of hormones in our water supply courtesy of runoff from birth control for the other half of the western world). That's it? Just Clomid? And her older kid isn't yet 2? It took her 3 cycles to get knocked up and you're calling her 'infertile?' Puh-leease. Ask anyone who's been trying for a while what they think of that assessment.

The next lady was also 'infertile'. She'd been trying on her own (e.g. no meds, nothing up the hoo-hah save her husband's wing-wang) for 6 years. That's tough. That's so long it made me want to cry for her. In the end, they chose a 'radical method of fertility treatment.' I couldn't wait to hear - ICSI? IVF? Donor egg? Do tell!

Nope, that Radical Treatment was IUI. Plain old IUI, which many many nice dykes in the world use as a means to get knocked up Every Day. (Yes, lots of straight women use it these days, too.) The announcer made it sound like it was this crazyass invasive procedure, a Radical Step, something Not Done Often. It's extremely effective and not all that invasive or painful (once you figure out that taking Advil about an hour beforehand and having a mostly full bladder help A LOT, not that I know or anything).

Of course I'm happy for these women and their lovely little babies. But c'mon Discovery Health Channel, reach a little further for your subjects, wouldya?

It's Hard To Find A Home

Most conception/pregnancy message boards are packed with straight women, many of whom love Jesus and their husbands. Since we're just some nice lesbians hoping for a baby who is not physically or mentally fucked up that sort of puts us in a different boat as far as the things I want to discuss on these boards. It seems that in all the internet, there's but one board for people TTC (trying to conceive) with donor sperm. That board is packed with nice lesbians, single moms by choice and straight women whose male partners are sperm-deficient in some way.

I feel more at home there than on any of the more generic boards, most of the time. But the fact that there's only one board like it (that I've found) makes me a little nervous. Though, why should it? Most of our real life (i.e. not on television) friends are straight and some even love Jesus. We get along fine with them, there's no reason to think I can't get along fine with the nice ladies of the boards, too.