The Struggle Is Part Of The Story

My hands tremble And my heart races, I just finished peeing on Sticks with smiley faces Pregnant until proven otherwise No ibuprofen or drinking, Spend the next few days Symptom spotting and over thinking Waiting turns from days To hours and minutes, I have this lovely womb Now it is time to see if you are in it Dreaming of the day To hear your heart beat, And see two little hands With two little feet Lost and uncertain With what will happen next, Will I have to start all over Or soon be holding you abreast In the end, we all know Exactly how the two week wait goes, You get a positive test or The red river flows

Sometimes people like to use the term artificial insemination interchangeably with intrauterine insemination. I find this term to be completely insensitive. The word artificial literally translates to fake or not real. I am sorry, but the insemination process is real. It's done by a real person, received by a real person, in real time, by real sperm. NOTHING about it is fake. If it wants to allude to the idea that the process by which the insemination happens is not real, then they should really rename it artificial intercourse. That translated would make more sense because I am not having sex, or reaping the benefits that sex gives, I am merely receiving sperm via a catheter. The insemination is real, not artificial. The makings behind this method versus sex is an artificial or alternate version, guy masturbates, sperm is collected, sperm is then inserted. I would love to reinvent the word to make the letter "A" stand for "assistive" insemination. Now that I c...