Does this look familiar to anyone?
Today, we went to see a new OB/Gyn that our MW is now with- to establish our care there. She is this little feisty woman with tight curly hair who has eight children of her own. We figured if nothing else her fertility magic might wear off on us. She reviewed my history and labs from our other OB and did't really have much in the way of recommendation. She did order a formal GYN ultrasound to check out those fibroids we found a couple months ago and went ahead and ordered an anti-phos.pholipid panel for precautionary reasons....better to know that problem before repeated miscarriages. She doesn't do AI, so she said we were way ahead of her in that knowledge and wished us luck, lots of luck. Then she asked if we had a hippo? 'Uh, no, no hippo here.' She said 'oh many a people have gotten pregnant by rubbing the hippo alone.' Then she walks to her office and brings back this large stuffed red hippo that she is barely holding between two fingers and away from her body, so as not to temp her fate for baby #9, and gives it to me to hold. I hugged it, held it, rubbed it , kissed it. She said the hippo is an ancient Egyptian fertility goddess. Who knew? I happen to enjoy a hippo, so I am going to find a couple to keep around the house. Can't hurt :-).
Anyone else have a hippo?
12 comments:
Never heard of the hippo ?
Weird.
Glad that she's being really thorough. Did you decide to try acupuncture ?
KJ
I was going to call and see about it but haven't yet. I will though. Have you done it? Do you know timing.. when in the cycle to do it?
Now I want a hippo!
I hadn't heard of the hippo. But, I do have another fertility charm thing that some friends let us borrow.
Good luck to you guys!
That hippo has a travel bug round his neck - are you a secret geocacher?
I've never heard of the hippo but I'm always up for a good luck charm. Hopefully this is it for you! And the fact that she has 8 children couldn't hurt either.
:)
Ooooo maybe I need one of those!!
Blogger must have eaten my comment from earlier. :o(
Never heard of the hippo however we just got back from running errands and guess what follow us home? A cute little fuzzy blue hippo! :o)
I say, hippo, pink flamingo or a turkey buzzard.....if it means a baby....We're in!
Good luck!
What is a geocacher?
I don't have a hippo, but I will now be getting a hippo.
A hippo? How neat!
PS. Vee -I'm a geocacher!
A hippo....ok I'm going to get one. I have heard that acupuncture can be the best thing. My aunt is a doctor in Eastern Medicine and says that fertility is one of the easiest things to treat!
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