Increasing your odds through giggling

We have decided to keep our respective parents "out of the loop" regarding our specific fertility treatments--it just seemed too hard to receive bad news ourselves and then have to deliver bad news to our parents and family. This will be our 3rd cycle without family knowledge....they know we are still trying...or at least they should know b/c it's obvious that we don't have kids yet! Well, this cycle our hand was sort of forced....

My uncle and his partner were in town visiting us during the exact time of our donor egg FET. We figured that if they wanted to hang out with us (we had been spending some time together) on our transfer day...then...well...we'd just tell them the truth. A gay couple can be generally empathetic with an infertile couple. Both groups have undergone some sense of grief that comes with things not working out the way they had always imagined....e.g., my uncle always imagined himself as a father and it doesn't look like it's in the cards.

This post is not meant to be so serious...so IM was on "bed rest" following the FET and my uncle and his partner decided to come over to our place for take-out chinese food (ahhh, three pepper chicken!). We're discussing fertility related stuff and generally having a good time and laughing and my uncles partner...call him P....his grandmother was from eastern Europe and he says he "channels" her spirit from time to time and that she had all sorts of "remedies" for every ailment :) Channeling his grandmother he decides that what IM should do is get cinnamon and sprinkle it on her belly and pat it with her hand (don't rub...don't rub it) for a while! It really was the funniest moment, by far, that we've ever had post FET!!! Meanwhile my uncle uses his iPhone to try and investigate this ridiculous witch-doctor remedy that P is performing. Low and behold he finds many google hits to cinnamon helping fertility! More importantly though he finds a link to a study that showed that infertility patients that were entertained by clowns following the egg transfer had a higher rate of success!!!! :) P is definitely a clown so we all decided that the grandmother's cinnamon sprinkling belly patting comedy routine remedy certainly passes the science test and so we should have a higher success rate this cycle thanks to our giggling!