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But life had other plans
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Re: But life had other plans
#72I appreciate and quite love the story, and congrats all around. But this idea of putting awful GIFs into a rather serious and interesting story has got to stop. It did nothing but cheapen and interfere with the story being told. Reaction GIFs are for uninteresting or ineloquent people. Just write how you feel!
The author shared the story in a way that resonated with themself — using reaction gifs. It’s hard to ask them to write how they feel but tell them they can’t use reaction gifs.
To be clear - I'm not demanding anything. Only giving my opinion as an interested reader. He or she is free to disregard, just as every comment I make here.
Re: But life had other plans
#73Several years ago my wife and I agreed we'd actively start making a baby and quit contraceptives. She was on the pill (progestogen-only) and we'd been using it for the better part of three years. Worked fine, she took it religiously at the same time every day. So we agreed to quit, and the next day she comes to me, awkwardly, saying "It worked!" half-jokingly. I stared at the pregnancy test, positive and unambiguous…
I thought the contraceptive doesn't prevent the pregnancy but just causes the body to menstruate regardless. So she might have been pregnant many times but this time it wasn't terminated by mensuration? (I'm certainly not very confident in my understanding.)
Re: But life had other plans
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the surgery. 5 months pregnant is VERY detectable edit: wait sry - it also says 2 weeks, so now I dont know how to read what its saying
The 5 month figure is after the entire summer following the surgery and recovery. The embryo was two weeks old during the surgery in May.
A standard urine-based pregnancy test turns positive ~10-12 days after conception. So the embryo must’ve been even younger. Probably 3-6 days.
Conception happens in the Fallopian tube, it takes 2-3 days for the fertilized egg to reach the uterus for nidation.
From a hormonal level, a pregnancy is undetectable, because literally nothing happens in the woman’s body at first. The increase in progesterone happens after every ovulation. The embryo isn’t connected to the mothers blood stream yet. And you can’t see on an ultra sonic scan whether the egg is fertilized or not.
What a crazy story.
Re: But life had other plans
#75I was getting ready to read a tragedy but was pleasantly surprised by the ending.
Right? In my head I had heard cancer before I clicked the article, and spoiler alert, yes, but also what a twist!
Re: But life had other plans
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO the surest way to get pregnant is to be told by a doctor that you can't.
This is an interesting thought to entertain, but it sounds like sampling bias [0]. It's less remarkable if a doctor tells a patient that she can't get pregnant, and she doesn't. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
“ They Said I Would Never Walk Again And I Really Have To Commend Them For Their Spot-On Diagnosis”
The onion headline
Re: But life had other plans
#77In my late 30's, with the only indication that we were fertile at all having been an ectopic pregnancy many years before, we gave up. We had wanted kids, but our lives were good, with nieces and nephews we love.
A few months before my 40th birthday - and the pandemic - SURPRISE!
We are currently the proud but exhausted old parents of an increasingly rambunctious toddler.
Re: But life had other plans
#78I appreciate and quite love the story, and congrats all around. But this idea of putting awful GIFs into a rather serious and interesting story has got to stop. It did nothing but cheapen and interfere with the story being told. Reaction GIFs are for uninteresting or ineloquent people. Just write how you feel!
Ascii, emojis and GIFs more accurately portray how I feel than the written language does. A lot of other people feel that way too. Image viruses also predate our kind of written language.
Re: But life had other plans
#79What a heartwarming story. Wish the author all the best with the newborn!