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Chizuk<br />
ABC's of IF<br />
By Ayelet<br />
SHAAREI TIKVAH/ CHANUKAH <strong>2009</strong><br />
I guess I was born too early.<br />
I don't mean to age myself here, but I'm probably old<br />
enough to be the mother of most of you. That is, had I been<br />
able to get pregnant then. (Not likely.) And way back in those<br />
olden days, infertility- I mean IF-- was, well, not so cutesy.<br />
No cute abbreviations. <strong>Infertility</strong> was-infertility. Childlessness.<br />
Etc. (What would 'childlessness' be? CN) I had no dh. I<br />
mean I had a husband, a true darling, but DH to me was Duncan<br />
Hines. (It was all pareve back then.) Maybe there was IUI,<br />
IVF and also GIFT and ZIFT (Are those still around?). But nothing<br />
fun. I had sisters-in-law and a mother-in-law, but no SILs<br />
and MILs. <strong>Infertility</strong> was loooooong. REALLY long. No way<br />
to shorten it at all. As I've described it before, it was "one long<br />
word that ends with a 'Y' (Why!?)."<br />
But I kind of like this shortening stuff. (Duncan Hines?<br />
Shortening? Do I have a theme here?) I think we need some<br />
more cutesies. OK it may be too late for me. My PIT's (postinfertility-twins)<br />
are in school already. I can even say that now<br />
BE"H I am a mother for longer that I was an IFP (infertility patient)!<br />
Gee, I never thought of that interesting concept. But<br />
I'd never know it though. <strong>Infertility</strong> was so loooooong. RE-<br />
ALLY long. (Didn't I say that already?) And those years have<br />
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