It's All I Can Do...

[Bagheera]

He's still practicing, can take my insurance that will only last another 8 months and most important of all, does the testicle-end-open technique that I had read about years ago that caused me to chicken out when I could not find anyone that would do it this way the first time around.

We didn't dare do anything but the full-up, both sides clamped bit with our hyper-fertility (as you called it). The first week or two was...sore and sensitive. It took until about two months afterward before I felt fully my old self down there again.

We still consider our only daughter a miracle since we have had something like 10 miscarriages over the years. Actually if you wanted to point to any kind of trauma, this might be it.

Ten! Yeah, these can have a major effect on them, and be associated with sex too. My wife and I had one fetus die during the first trimester, and leading to a DNC. My wife still thinks about and grieves a little over that lost one. So ten?! I'd bet there are some issues there involving her self-esteem as a woman, a mother, a sexual wife all wrapped up together.

-- B.