I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to explain to my husband how fertility works so that he'll understand. To be honest, before we started having problems ourselves, I just assumed that two people love each other, have sex, and then 9 months later a baby is born! OK, I also know that women ovulate once a month, and unfertilized eggs end up causing PMS, cramps, and bleeding. I had no idea of any of the mechanics, such as what follicles are and how many you start with (or don't, as the case may be), that you need to have sex BEFORE ovulation, that fertilized eggs don't implant immediately, etc. I could go on and on and on about what I didn't know then (and mostly know now, but then I read about what other couples are doing in terms of meds and IUI and IVF, and I realize how little I still know).
Anyway, after my positive test on Thursday, my husband and I did it that night and the following night, just for good measure. I thought he was pretty clear on the fact that it's important to have sex before ovulation. I figured if he didn't know anything else, he at least knew that. HAHAHAHAHA. I was soooooo wrong. We went to a family party on Saturday night, stayed out way too late, and were super tired by the time we got home. I was sober, as I was the driver and also hoping that my little egg(s) had fertilized, but D was pretty tipsy. We got in bed and he told me that he was trying not to drink too much so that we'd be able to do it again that night in hopes of fertilization. I just had to shake my head and try to explain to him AGAIN that it was probably too late, and if anything was going to happen, it had probably already happened and all we could do now was wait.
He tries so hard to understand, but he just never gets it.
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