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Baby lust and infertility prompted writer Matthew M. F. Miller to blog. Later his blog was published as “Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story.”
Miller speaks plainly from the emotional impact of male infertility to
the marathon sessions of baby making and get-us-pregnant treatments.
His writing is straightforward, honest and laced with dry humor. (My
favorite kind.)
“Infertility treatment is [...]

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Pregnant? It didn’t seem real after all these years of infertility. My primary-care doctor thought it was ectopic and sent me directly over to the gynecologist’s office. Only the office was closed and I was directed to the emergency room.
I needed to drive to the hospital. The doctor’s words ‘tubal pregnancy’ echoed in my [...]

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I was pregnant, but I wasn’t going to be able to keep the baby?
After 16 years of infertility, this had to be some big cosmic joke. I felt short of breath. This pregnancy couldn’t be tubal like my primary-care doctor thought. It just couldn’t.
My emotions flipped from stunned disbelief to panicked overload. I was supposed [...]

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I’m not dying; I’m pregnant.
It had been sixteen years since I last tested positive for a baby. It wasn’t the result I expected my primary care doctor to return. I’d gone to see him because I thought my colon might be infected.
Yes, my colon.
Mind you, I didn’t pick that to worry about at random. A [...]