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Anna & Pete (Australia)
Chapter One: Everyone's pregnant but
me!
My parents’ mantra as I was growing up was “It
can take just one mistake, and you’re pregnant”. I genuinely wish
that this rang true for Pete and I. But no, 2½ years and we were
still trying. Other girls just had to look at their husbands and,
low and behold, they’re pregnant. Why is it so easy for everyone
else? What are we doing wrong? I know that something is not right;
logic and sense tells me. But what?
Close friends who knew how long Pete and I had been trying, were
attempting to be encouraging. They’d tell me not to worry - it will
happen. But it seemed that every couple of weeks, someone else was
pregnant and that someone was not me. “Anna, great news, Sophie is
pregnant” or “Jane’s having her second baby - she’s due in
November”. “That’s wonderful, I am so glad for her, she will make a
wonderful mum”, were the words that I had to force out of my mouth.
I was genuinely happy and ecstatic for my friends but, at the same
time, frustrated that I had again to force excitement for a
pregnancy that was not mine.
“Don’t get so worked up, just be patient”, or “You need to stop
stressing, it won’t happen when you’re anxious”. Well, crap! What
the hell did they know? I had been bloody patient, 2½ years worth
of patient. How could I NOT think about it when everyone else was
having children and, as for not stressing, you try desperately
wanting to be pregnant and having a reminder every single month for
30 months, that your not!
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