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	<title>Comments on: Happy Birthday to me&#8230;</title>
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	<description>and it's interplay with an infertile body</description>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://afertilemind.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-39</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the comment on my blog :).

I&#039;ve seen that guys site before - he&#039;s commented around on a lot of blogs.  I don&#039;t think too many people would take him seriously since his blog is so poorly written, but I also was pretty disgusted after reading just a couple posts, so clicked away.

You know, someone I had a long conversation with a couple weeks ago about infertility said, &quot;I just can&#039;t understand people who, once they know they can&#039;t have a biological child, refuse to adopt.&quot;  I carefully explained to her how emotionally and financially draining, no...devastating, it can be to go through infertility treatments, and that the process of adoption can be even longer and more difficult emotionally and financially.  I think she was surprised to hear things from a different perspective, that those things had never occurred to her, and I even think at the end she realized that it&#039;s never okay to judge someone&#039;s decisions on how they chose to build their family.  I least I hope...

I don&#039;t think the fertile world thinks that we put much thought into our reproductive choices (if you can call it that), since they never thought about theirs!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the comment on my blog <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen that guys site before &#8211; he&#8217;s commented around on a lot of blogs.  I don&#8217;t think too many people would take him seriously since his blog is so poorly written, but I also was pretty disgusted after reading just a couple posts, so clicked away.</p>
<p>You know, someone I had a long conversation with a couple weeks ago about infertility said, &#8220;I just can&#8217;t understand people who, once they know they can&#8217;t have a biological child, refuse to adopt.&#8221;  I carefully explained to her how emotionally and financially draining, no&#8230;devastating, it can be to go through infertility treatments, and that the process of adoption can be even longer and more difficult emotionally and financially.  I think she was surprised to hear things from a different perspective, that those things had never occurred to her, and I even think at the end she realized that it&#8217;s never okay to judge someone&#8217;s decisions on how they chose to build their family.  I least I hope&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think the fertile world thinks that we put much thought into our reproductive choices (if you can call it that), since they never thought about theirs!</p>
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		<title>By: Kate</title>
		<link>http://afertilemind.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-35</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I didn&#039;t want to browse too long at that site as I don&#039;t want to satisfy them with more hits than they deserve. Any site, IF related or not that is condescending and judgmental of the difficult choices others make sparks my ire without fail.

I don&#039;t have young children, like you I&#039;m struggling up the IF mountain, but I have hope for you and me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t want to browse too long at that site as I don&#8217;t want to satisfy them with more hits than they deserve. Any site, IF related or not that is condescending and judgmental of the difficult choices others make sparks my ire without fail.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have young children, like you I&#8217;m struggling up the IF mountain, but I have hope for you and me.</p>
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		<title>By: jodie38</title>
		<link>http://afertilemind.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/happy-birthday-to-me/#comment-33</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WTF??!!  What a whack job.  The grammar is so bad that it makes the whole blog incomprehensible (not that I think the author has much of a point to begin with).  I wonder what his/her angle is.  Have some connection with failed IVF, do we?  &quot;IVF sufferers&quot;?  &quot;They make IVF up as they go along, otherwise there would be no birth defects&quot;???!!

Ears and brain wide shut, is what that is.  

And yeah, made me kinda mad too.  

Happy Birthday, btw!  I&#039;ll be 40 in September, so I&#039;m right behind ya!  As my dear D says, &quot;you either have them, or you don&#039;t&quot;.  He&#039;s such a sweet talker.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WTF??!!  What a whack job.  The grammar is so bad that it makes the whole blog incomprehensible (not that I think the author has much of a point to begin with).  I wonder what his/her angle is.  Have some connection with failed IVF, do we?  &#8220;IVF sufferers&#8221;?  &#8220;They make IVF up as they go along, otherwise there would be no birth defects&#8221;???!!</p>
<p>Ears and brain wide shut, is what that is.  </p>
<p>And yeah, made me kinda mad too.  </p>
<p>Happy Birthday, btw!  I&#8217;ll be 40 in September, so I&#8217;m right behind ya!  As my dear D says, &#8220;you either have them, or you don&#8217;t&#8221;.  He&#8217;s such a sweet talker&#8230;..</p>
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