So where have I been? Mostly lurking and reading other people's sites and posts. Also thinking about the fact that this blog's name and original intention is different from where I am now, and wondering what to do about it. I like having a personal blog like this one. But I'm troubled that most of my search engine traffic gets here because they are pursuing infertility treatments and searching words like Follistim and embryo. When they arrive at this site they are seeing stories about my kiddos, or photos. I know it would have been hard for me to stumble on things like that during some points of my infertility journey.
And yet, I think there are some posts and resources here that could be useful or comforting to those in the midst of their infertility journey. That's what I wanted this place to be, after all -- a place where I could share things about my journey with others who followed me (and plenty of others) down that path.
Also, I've been thinking about Wordpress and switching to that platform. But that would involve MOVING everything which seems like a big deal until you do a search on it and other people have done it. And while I do have some nice Feedburner traffic here, there's not a huge amount of other traffic here that I would lose by moving from this URL.
So I guess I could move the infertility content to one domain and the personal blog stuff to another one. I would just pretty much gut what is here to do it. But maybe gutting it is better than leaving it here to languish because I'm frozen in time unsure about what to post here because my place in life has changed from what it was two years ago.
But, I haven't made up my mind. Probably because it makes me a little sad to think about gutting what I've built. I've "met" people I really like and I've learned a lot. I want to be able to take all the good stuff with me too.
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On a separate note, it's Spring still and there are pregnant women everywhere. You'd think that I'd be all satisfied with the amazing wonderful sons that I have (and you know that I am full of joy to spend every moment that I can with them) but I have found myself secretly longing to be one of those pregnant women again. Am I out of my mind???!!! I've just started getting sleep again. I'm still nursing this last one. And, most importantly, I am 43! I finally succeed in dismissing this whole thing as total foolishness on my part, and then James' teacher at the daycare tells me that her 50 year old aunt is pregnant. And the other teacher tells me that she had her three children after she was 40 years old. And there's one more story like that. And then someone else has another story like that. Where are these people coming from?
Well, you could stay here, and leave a post at the top explaining where you have gone.
And then import all your posts and comments to wordpress plus add new stuff.
Or leave it all as is.
Because knowing that someone has triumphed over infertility and loss can be pretty inspirational, right?
Posted by: Aurelia | June 05, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Hi!
I feel like I started blogging because of the infertility stuff...even though my kid was 2 1/2 by the time I started the blog. It's hard to extricate that piece of your life.
Anyway - don't go anywhere without telling us where.
Posted by: magpie | June 05, 2008 at 01:20 PM
a) Wordpress is nice.
b) Glad you are doing well.
c) The more babies the merrier, so long as you want them!
d) But two is great, of course. Above and beyond.
e) Let us know where you go!
Posted by: Eva | June 05, 2008 at 08:12 PM
I am 42, my son is almost 16, my twin daughters 11. I too still have the baby urge :)
Posted by: amy | December 28, 2008 at 10:01 PM