6.19.2009

So, learn me on something.

I've spent my entire adult life trying not to get pregnant. It works 99.9% of the time. Obviously.
I understand that some people spend time trying to get pregnant. Which I find weird.

To me, trying to get pregnant is like trying to get addicted to heroin.
Motherhood/heroin can make you feel really good- better than anything you can imagine has ever made you feel- but it's expensive and makes you miss work and your friends stop calling you and you get marks on your skin and your nose is always running and your hair goes uncombed and your house falls to shambles and you spend way too much time in the house eating beans out of cans and searching for change in the couch so you can pay your utility bills so the lights stay on so you can see what the hell it is you're doing.

But whatever. People try to get pregnant. By doing it.
I'm assuming.

You know how sometimes when you're doing it you might think about (insert your someone else of choice here)?
So when you're trying hard to get pregnant, are you thinking about babies while you are getting railed?

Because that's creepy.

28 degrees {comments}:

Tiffany said...

Stop it! It's so yucky, and so true, and it made me laugh out loud literally at the computer.

And if you really want to know - yes, when we're having "baby making sex" I'm totally thinking about babies.

thelifeyouchoose said...

okay, so. ummm.
I did NOT think of babies.

I did however think of the fact that we were actually creating a person together -
and
the
sex
was
phenomenal!
Capital F - fenomenal.

Not sure what that says really accept that being with someone you love and trust enough to WANT a baby with is truly truly awesome.

And having sex with them with that realization in mind is fucking mind blowing.
the end.

Haley said...

That's gross. I hear people that are trying to have a baby, typically have mechanical, "work" like sex after the first month. Everything becomes a chore if you HAVE to do it! How sexy is, "hey, Im ovulating...let's do it!"? I mean, really...

Miss Grace said...

I took my magic no-baby pill at the same time to the minute every single day. So I wasn't thinking about babies when I got mine. I was thinking about....better things.

Amy Jo said...

Yeah, no. Not even close.

susan said...

Me, neither. I have no idea what I was thinking... and yes, I mean that both ways.

Mommy D said...

Both times I know for a fact I wasn't thinking about babies. The first time, we weren't actually trying, well, there wasn't a goalie anymore so I guess we were actually trying, but I'm pretty sure I was thinking about much dirtier things! The second time we tried for 8 months which again brough on the dirty thoughts!!! No mechanical sex for us!!! I'm not sure we'd even know how to "just go through the motions."

Oh yeah, and dragging your husband to bed to ravage you because your ovulating IS sexy... Is there any bigger compliment or ego stroke in the world than, "I love you so much that I want to make babies with you right now?" I think not...

Griz said...

Um amen and amen. It is creepy right?!? I cannot handle it. nothing gets me going like thinking about babies! ew no. if anything that is birth control at its finest. love the blog btw. you're hilarious!

JustBecky said...

What if instead you think about "your someone else of choice" as a baby while your doing it? Is that weird?

I can't even imagine I'm in my house when Big Daddy and I are doing the naked tango. The earth isn't shaking unless my mind is on a deserted island somewhere.

Also, I've actually never really tried to have a baby. The first was unplanned, and we just had the other two so they could keep the first one busy.

Gwen said...

"So when you're trying hard to get pregnant, are you thinking about babies while you are getting railed?" - That just might be the funniest thing I've ever read. Lord alive, you have a way with words. I'm with you on the trying to get pregnant thing. It's so foreign to me and yet I want to maybe try just to see how it feels. Like heroin, I guess, like you said. I think if I tried to get pregnant, I wouldn't. Because my life is opposite life and everything I don't want turns out to be everything I get. So weird.

lacochran said...

And once you've done it, you try to get your friends to do it, too.

:)

Val said...

Can't tell ya. First time was an oops, a great oops, but still. And the second came so fast after the first that I was still in that ho hum get it done I'm tired and have an hour until the baby wakes up.

Oh God, I just read that and it sounds awful. Oh well, it's true. So true. Some things never change.

BarbiePhobia said...

This made me LOL ^.^ *snorts*

Zip n Tizzy said...

Ummm.... Yes actually. The one month we were trying to get pregnant, my mind was chanting "Baby, Baby, Baby..." and it was creepy, but it worked.

The second time I got pregnant I was thinking "Oh how great it is that we finally have a room to ourselves again... Woo-Hoo, Yipee, Oh F#*K did that thing break?!" That was freaky.

Either way it was terrifying but both times it worked out in the end.

anniegirl1138 said...

I was 35/36 and the clock was clanging. Yeah, I thought about it. When you are in the grips of infertility, you don't think about anything else. I know more about getting knocked up - naturally and not so - than I ever dreamed I would know.

The day it happened was hardly an accident. IVF is not an accident. Not an ounce of lust went into my baby but a lot of purpose and intent did - which I can say about me personally because my birth parents were in high school when they slipped up and made me.

A Free Man said...

In short, no.

Amanda said...

I wasn't. I can tell you what I was probably thinking though. The first time I was probably thinking how fun it was to be married. I was 20 and married for 2 weeks when he was conceived. Oh, and I had a crush on the guy in my kickboxing workout tapes I was doing at the time. I'd never felt better until I got what I thought was a sinus infection and then the flu.

With the 2nd, I was thinking how great it was to have my husband home, physically in bed with me. After 18 months of not being touched by another human in bed, THAT'S what my mind was on until about 3 weeks later.

beth - total mom haircut said...

Heh. Yeah...I guess that's true. And kind of creepy. Luckily for me we didn't have to "try" too many times. It was more just an acknowledgment that we weren't going to "not try."

HG said...

That actually made me snort with laughter.

M.J. said...

What could be sexier than procreation? ;)

I have friend now who claims that he and his wife are not trying to have another baby, but she is going off birth control. In my eyes, that IS trying. Maybe there are no ovulation calendars or sex schedules, but come on. Not trying to not get pregnant and trying to get pregnant are the same--either way it usually ends with a baby.

punkymama said...

ewwwwwwwww could not imagine sex and thinking of babies. I never tried to get pregnant so I have no idea what that is.

Jo said...

LMAO! I just woke Hubby up with my guffawing! And I didn't care! I'm still laughing...

susanlindgren said...

What's worse? Having sex and all you can think is "Oh gawd, please no baby with the whole sex thingy that is going on right now."
I have so done that, hold head in shame.

Lucy said...

I haven't tried to get pregnant in so long I have no idea what I thought about while doing it and I'm pretty sure if I asked my husband if he thought about babies he would look at me like I just lost another screw!

Bridget said...

When I started reading this I thought you were going to say you accidentally got yourself knocked up again and I almost shat myself.

Julie said...

Oh girlfriend you have no idea what you goes on in the head of people trying to knocked up and are battling infertility. Let me give you a little list:
Baby.
I am so tired of doing it
Baby.
these drugs cost more than my car
Baby.
I wonder if I'll have to have a post coital visit again any time soon?
Baby.
I wonder if I can talk him into invitro?
Baby.
That goddamn girl at the office is knocked up again. She can't take care of the three she already has.
Baby.

That's just a partial list. Sexy isn't it?

sammy said...

the funniest/wittiest post ive read in a loooong time!

friggin hilarious!

Hillbilly Duhn said...

I don't know what's more funny, your post or peoples comments!! LOL!

Um, I think about sex. And more sex. And postitions. And maybe some more fondling while in said postition. It's all about the sex for me....