October was slowly coming into focus, and the thought of children started to creep up on me. In late May, I had broken up with my longtime boyfriend and decided I was best on my own, and had made the decision that being a Single Mom by Choice was my best route to having children. I didn’t want to look for a “daddy” or a “husband.” I sincerely thought it wasn’t fair to subject someone to that. “Oh hi, nice to meet you. Would you like to be my baby daddy?” That just seems so wrong to me.
In making this choice, I had to be aware of the laparoscopy that was looming over me. You remember right? The slight blockage in my fallopian tubes that could potentially cause problems with my getting pregnant?
Well I had never had surgery before and the thought of someone cutting into me scared the hell out of me. After speaking to my doctor I had decided to hold off on going through with the procedure and instead opted to try getting pregnant without it. My doctor wasn’t happy with my decision but he is enough of a forward thinker to realize there is a time and place for such an argument and this was not one of those times. He understood my fears and just asked that I remain open minded.
So with opting out of the laparoscopy I also opted to stop my birth control as well, in order to purge the medication and prep my body for pregnancy . . .
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