<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Infertility @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Infertility) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Infertility @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Low dose Naltrexone...for endometriosis?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/low_dose_naltrexonefor_endometriosis.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/low_dose_naltrexonefor_endometriosis.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=low%5Fdose%5Fnaltrexonefor%5Fendometriosis</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;J. has been on LDN for awhile for his Crohn&#39;s disease.&nbsp; Apparently Naltrexone started out as a detox drug for people addicted to drugs and alcohol.&nbsp; Now, in much lower doses, it&#39;s being used to treat a variety of different con]]></description><category>endometriosis</category><category>infertility</category><category>crohns disease</category><category>low dose naltrexone</category></item><item><title>Is everyone pregnant?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/is_everyone_pregnant.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Feveryone%5Fpregnant</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Does it seem like everyone is having a baby?First there's this week's People magazine. Overkill on this in a big way. I think this is like the bazillionth story they've run on Kate Hudson's pregnancy and childbirth. Ugh.Then my mom te]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Mild post-Mother&apos;s Day depression</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/mild_postmothers_day_depression.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/mild_postmothers_day_depression.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mild%5Fpostmothers%5Fday%5Fdepression</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For several years now, Mother's Day has been a holiday that has been hard to get through. It's pretty much a slap-in-the-face celebration for infertile people, like Valentine's Day is for singles.This year I got my first Mother's Day]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Ugh.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/ugh.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/ugh.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ugh</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I got my period this morning. Bleah. I don&#39;t know why, but I&#39;m feeling very emotional about it. Yesterday I looked at some of the babies in storytime and wondered what a baby that John and I made would look like. And then I got all the pregna]]></description></item><item><title>Waiting to see if I&apos;m pregnant</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/waiting_to_see_if_im_pregnant.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/waiting_to_see_if_im_pregnant.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=waiting%5Fto%5Fsee%5Fif%5Fim%5Fpregnant</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I know there&#39;s not a chance of this really happening, but John and I celebrated after the social worker left on the 5th, and it&#39;s not outside the realm of possibility.I&#39;m not sure what I would do regarding Max if I did get pregnant now. J]]></description></item><item><title>Anniversary blues</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/anniversary_blues.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/anniversary_blues.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=anniversary%5Fblues</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve always had kind of a hard time with anniversaries of sad events. Sometimes I don&#39;t even realize that&#39;s what it is until I get to the day of, and then it hits me.&nbsp; Next week is the anniversary of my finding out I was pregnant and]]></description></item><item><title>Confession</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/confession.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/confession.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=confession</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Saturday afternoon I went to confession. I hadn&#39;t gone in a long time, over a year. But I finally got to a place where I wasn&#39;t angry and I could give my conscience a good, thorough examination. The priest was very nice. He said that his sist]]></description></item><item><title>Meant to be?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/meant_to_be.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/meant_to_be.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=meant%5Fto%5Fbe</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m beginning to feel more and more like this adoption is meant to be. I&#39;m not sure if I even believe in fate, but I know that for a long time now, maybe even years, it&#39;s been nagging in the back of my mind that I could adopt a child from]]></description></item><item><title>Missed it</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/missed_it.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/missed_it.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=missed%5Fit</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, after two very short, anovulatory cycles, it appears that this month is a very long ovulatory one. To make a long story short, we missed it again. I just assumed that when it didn&#39;t happen through day 20, it wouldn&#39;t happen at all. :(]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Passport</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/passport.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/passport.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=passport</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So yesterday, after my first day back at work, I felt compelled to get this adoption thing underway (obviously, I just loooooove my job). I filled out the passport renewal form, found my marriage certificate (it makes me nervous to send the original,]]></description></item><item><title>Another satisfied customer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_satisfied_customer.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_satisfied_customer.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fsatisfied%5Fcustomer</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I talked to another woman last night who&#39;d adopted three siblings through Child Link back in 2000. Apparently the agency was very new then. She&#39;d started off with a different agency and found it very hard to work with. They wouldn&#39;t retur]]></description></item><item><title>Sad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/sad.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/sad.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sad</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just helped a 15 year old check out a copy of What to Expect When You&#39;re Expecting.Her cheeks were still softy and downy. She looked so young. 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I realize this will be a select few. But for anyone out there going through this and feeling alone - if you]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Making some personal progress...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/making_some_personal_progress.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/making_some_personal_progress.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=making%5Fsome%5Fpersonal%5Fprogress</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday during preschool story hour, I chatted with Sally, a mom who has three adorable children (including the uber-cute Jake). I asked about her sister whom I knew was in the process of adopting a child from Russia. Sally said the adoption went t]]></description></item><item><title>Bitching</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/bitching.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/bitching.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bitching</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Okay, could there be more pregnant people in this week&#39;s issue of People?  It should be temporarily titled Modern Celebrity Mother. Brooke Shields is on the cover with her new (and darling) baby, Rowan. Then flipping the page you encounter Kate H]]></description></item><item><title>Getting a headache...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/getting_a_headache.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/getting_a_headache.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=getting%5Fa%5Fheadache</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This feels like it's Clomid-induced.  Already the fun begins.]]></description></item><item><title>Maybe I&apos;m not meant to be a mom...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/maybe_im_not_meant_to_be_a_mom.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/maybe_im_not_meant_to_be_a_mom.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=maybe%5Fim%5Fnot%5Fmeant%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fa%5Fmom</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that it shouldn&#39;t be this hard to reproduce. Maybe this is nature&#39;s way of telling me I&#39;d be a horrible, impatient mother without even the maternal feeling of a garter snake.I wonder, do rabbits who can&#39;t have bunnies]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Back on Clomid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_on_clomid.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/back_on_clomid.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Fon%5Fclomid</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been on this again for only 3 days (you take it on days 3-7 of your cycle and it's supposed to fool your ovaries into thinking they didn't actually kick out the eggs so they produce more), so I suppose I can't blame the Clomid fo]]></description><category>infertility</category></item><item><title>Period</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/period.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/period.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=period</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What exactly is the POINT of all this heartache?Am I supposed to be learning something?  Growing?  Bettering my character?Because I&#39;m not growing. I feel like I&#39;m shrinking in grief. And my character is the same old sub-standard character it&]]></description><category>infertility</category></item></channel></rss>