How trying to conceive inspired a more natural lifestyle for this writer.
My husband and I were at a quaint Parisian market on the first evening of a romantic getaway, and I was desperately trying to recall my high school French. We needed vegetable oil, we needed it now, and I feared my urgency was not translating quickly enough. “Avez vous le Crisco?"l stammered.
"Avez vous Vhuile végétule?" Bingo. The cashier handed us a fresh bottle, and we beat a hasty retreat
over cobblestone paths to our hotel. Our mission, however, was not to fry up a batch of glistening pommnesfrites. This bottle of vegetable oil was going to help us get pregnant.
When you’re trapped in the soul-crushing cycle of infertility, you’ll do pretty much anything and everything to up your odds of conceiving. At one point, about a year into our struggle, I would estimate that go percent of my daily decisions revolved around the question, "Will this help me get pregnant?" From the foods and beverages that passed my lips to the intensity with which I worked out, from whether I canceled my weekly therapy appointment to squeeze in a meeting with a new reproductive endocrinologist, I quite literally didn’t take a step without contemplating its potential to aid us in creating a baby.
Back in the fall of 2009, when Dan and I booked that vacation to France a last hurrah Deming which, we naively believed, we would quickly conceive and pop out a little one 40 weeks later we had yet to know the path that lay before us, one riddled with anovulatory potholes and a roadblocked fallopian tube. Back then, we thought having unprotected sex was the best way to get me pregnant a notion I now consider hopelessly retro. Still, I wanted to up our odds, and Ihad read somewhere that commercial lubricants trapped even the most Michael Phelpsian of sperm. Vegetable oil, one random website assured me, was far more natural and effective. 5 Our week of slippery romps in the City of Lights did not land me pregnant. A few months of Clomid an oral drug designed to spur ovulation, failed, as did intrauterine insemination, when the doctor
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