I said, NaComLeavMo! In other words, it’s National Leave a Comment Month, officially declared by Mel over at Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters. The rules? Between May 25 and June 25, your goal is to leave 5 comments a day and if you have a blog of your own, respond to at least one comment. See, I’m giving you plenty of time to mark your calendars.

Click on the icon for a growing list of bloggers who are participating.This comes at a perfect time. Recall that one of our goals this month at Fertility Notes is to celebrate Pregnancy Awareness Month in our own way, and that is to focus on education, exercise, nutrition & wellness and nurture on our paths to pregnancy.

Have you been lurking? Those bloggers you bookmark don’t know you read them faithfully every day. They don’t know that you (or I) find them funny, inspiring, insightful. Let’s nurture them by letting them know.

Of course, you are always welcome to start early.

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Nurture: NaComLeavMo

Believe it or not, the opportunity presented itself again. This time, I took it.

And it was so much easier than I thought it would be.

This time, we were driving back from another overnight trip for work, (one in which I had surreptitiously slipped into the bathroom of our shared room to shoot my lupron that morning). We were talking about kids and our general annoyance with them (yes, it’s true, just because I want a child doesn’t mean I am a big fan of yours) and she asked,

“Do you think you and M are ever going to have kids?” and it felt like a very different question than the “why don’t you have kids?” that I was faced with months ago at work. This felt like a question that I could answer.

“Well, um, actually, we are trying. And we’ve been trying for over a year now….” And then it went from there. Me explaining my mysterious “sick” days, giving a quick IVF 101, talking about the meds and injections and other factors involved in all of this. She had no idea, and she was such a thoughtful listener that I kicked myself for thinking this would be a hard conversation to have. She asked,

“So, are you, like, all hormonal all the time?”

Well, h*ll. If you couldn’t tell, I’m not going to tell you. That’s one thing that I’ll try to keep to myself.

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Education: Talking About Infertility

This campaign is kind of funny to me since those of us struggling to start a family are hyper-aware of those around us who are preggers. No need for a campaign! Really! We see you. We really do. We are more than aware that pregnancy can be a wonderful, life-changing event.

All kidding aside, the four initiatives of this month-long campaign include: education, exercise, nutrition & wellness and nurture. And these sound to me like wonderful things to concentrate on for those of us trying to conceive as well. So let’s do that!

This May, check Fertility Notes for posts on education, exercise, nutrition and wellness and nurture – and how those all relate to the path towards pregnancy. I am really hoping that next Pregnancy Awareness Month, we are all celebrating together, in a different way.

This feels like a good time to let you know that the b5 Health and Wellness channel will soon be welcoming a few new blogs to the family, one focused on pregnancy (just in time for PAM), the other related to yoga/pilates and fitness. I promise to give you a heads up when they go live.

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May is Pregnancy Awareness Month