#notpregnantjustfat

"She's got Brazilian leather boots on the pedal of her German car  Listen to the Beatles singing back in the USSR  Yeah she's goin' around the world tonight  But she ain't leavin' here  She's just going to meet her boyfriend down at the street fair It's a french kiss, Italian ice  Spanish moss in the moonlight  Just another American Saturday night"  - Brad Paisley - 'American Saturday Night' Full disclosure, I am a HUGE country & western fan. I was raised on Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline (thank you Daddy) and it is a love that has never left me. I think it's the detail and the stories that capture me most of all. The lyrics from 'American Saturday Night' by Brad Paisley (😍) highlight the irony of the 'All American' life as it incorporates elements from so many other nations and races. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the multi-cultural side of life and the fact that th...

Recently I have really thrown myself into the fertility fight, because I have decided that I have waited long enough. All the time I have been trying for a baby I have been very focused on the possibility of my own problems including a large ovarian cyst, PCOS (I was incorrectly diagnosed with this, but the fear that the real mistake was the doctor who told me I didn't have it still hangs over me, 'what if I am missing out on vital treatment?'), tilted uterus or something similar (nurses always struggle to find my cervix during smear tests) etc etc. What I haven't considered for more than a fleeting moment, is the possibility that the problem is not with me. It takes two people (or at least the ingredients from two people) to make a baby, so why is so much focus on the female? If I were baking a cake (I wouldn't be, I'm a fucking terrible baker!) and it came out tasting like shit, or didn't rise or...I don't know what else can go wrong with cakes becau...