TTC timing

We had dinner tonight with two lesbian friends who have been thinking about TCC quite seriously for some time.  They’d always had this drawn-out timeframe which involved starting to ttc in mid 2010.  Now things have changed a bit and they’re thinking of starting in January 2009.  I am very happy for them, but it does mark the time that we’ve been on the TTC train for.  It wasn’t long after they told us that I realised that it was now quite possible that they’d be pregnant before us.  I am ok with this. But it is painful.  These markers of time can stretch out.  It was twelve months ago that we were signing on at the clinic.  Then getting our donors on board and patiently waiting out the six month quarantine period before we could get started.  It takes so damn long to get to the starting line.  On the upside I am really looking forward to having some of my good lesbian friends with children around the same age as ours and to (hopefully) be going through the same things at the same time.  Oh well, let’s see eh?

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