Happy 50,000: Babycakes Greatest Hits

Sometime yesterday babycakes hit 50,000. Because I spent most of the day in a pregnant fog I didn't have a chance to commemorate the very moment we turned over.

Greatest hits

Our first post ever. We started babycakes as a way to document our jounrey through TTC. Being Uber Prepared Lesbians, we started the blog WAY before we actually started trying to get pregnant. It's hard to imagine what we posted about before becoming consumed.

The Cartoons. I drew comics for a while to have something to post. And because I really like to draw. It's been a long time since a Two Girls comic has been done. Since we have SO much more to talk about, perhaps it's time for the comic to come back.

We delved into the donor frenzy with Stalking Dr. Bob, when any decent looking man with sperm was starting to look like an option.

We talked about life stuff. I graduated from nursing school, started my job, finished my first year as a nurse. We talked politics, because what is life if you don't talk politics.

We told our parents that we were actively trying to concieve, which was an adventure in itself.

Known Donor. In August we finally settled on asking a friend to be our known donor. The funny thing is that even though the decision had been made, it would take us quite a while to actually ask him (in November). I spent a lot of time talking to him about NOTHING. I contimplated bribery. Finally, I did it, in the dumbest, most stumbling way possible, but I did it.

And the answer was YES. Good lord!

Babycakes became a TTC blog. Well, after more anxiety and testing and visits to lawyers and more visits to lawyers.

We rang in 2006 then we did our very first insemination.

I have to say that the first insem was both wonderful and awful. For the first time we could actually be pregnant. It took us a while to realize that with each insem we were most likely NOT pregnant.

We had our first TWW then our very first BFN. His name was Sherman.

We inseminated two, three, four, five, six, seven more times before our luck changed. Their names were Gert, Monty (watching Monty Python when we insemed), Bambi, Lopez (watching Kids in the Hall when we insemed...oh, I really liked Lopez), 006, and Moneypenny. We went on progesterone. We struggled with finding a place to do IUI using our known donor. We learned a lot.

In the meantime we enterained ourselves with Photo Friday and stories about our donor.

Finally we stumbled into cycle number eight with very few reserves left. We'd run out of hope. We knew our chances of getting pregnant were jack shit. We were starting to plan for the possibility that we were facing unexplained infertility and may have to move to IVF.

M. said she knew when I decided I was going to kill the teenager having a truly stupid conversation on his cell phone in front of us at Subway. I thought maybe, must maybe when my s/sx didn't drop off at my usual day 10 (even on the progesterone I could tell that they dropped off). It was our first IUI cycle but our timing was off.

On Friday, July 28th babycakes officially became a pregnancy blog. Eight tries, countless frustrations and tears, a billion newly aquired coping skills later M. and I were pregnant.

Thank you to everyone for sharing our journey with us. I hope our experience has been helpful in some way. I know that the support M. and I get from this blog is priceless. It really has kept us sane to both have a place to talk about our feelings and to know that people are listening.

Our love goes out to each one of you.