Chris: Candace asked me to do a favor for her. Me, being the exceptional, awesome, amazing husband I am, I dropped everything … except Jellybean … and ran to her aid. Candace will be spending the next several weeks doing everything she can to help make this year’s Advocacy Day a success (hosted by Resolve and being held in Washington DC on May 14) and thus, she needed me to take the wheel and drive the blog. As an aside, let me encourage you to participate in Advocacy Day. If you have participated in a previous Advocacy day – you should go. If you know someone that has participated in Advocacy Day – you should go. If you have not been involved with Advocacy Day before – you should go. If you have no idea what Advocacy Day is – you should go. If you do not want to advocate for policy changes to support family building with legislative representatives – you should not go. If you can’t go we totally understand, write a letter to your representative and senators and email it to us and we will hand deliver it for you! Either way break the silence for change.
Letter template here. Email here. List of your congressional leaders here.
Back on track, Candace asked me to take over for the next several weeks, what am I going to say? Oh no Candace, I better not. Shirk my responsibility? Not if I want to keep my man card intact. And with that bravado where will I take us? Well, I am going to talk about anxiety, which could be a two-fer (two week long) post. We’ll discuss the sentiment that your spouse needs to “Take care of ‘their’ dog;” a discussion of how sometimes it is easier to find a thread of separation between ourselves when things are tough. I am also going to talk about our interactions with people now that we have Jellybean and the all-to-often experience we have of hearing, “Aren’t you glad it’s all over?” Spoiler alert, aside from using contractions which is a grammar teacher’s nightmare, having a child does not remove infertility.
I don’t know Chris. It kinda doesn’t feel right with you at the helm. Too much testosterone. Well, in an effort to diminish any apprehension you may be feeling about me taking the driving seat for the next several weeks, I thought we should start out on the right foot … with a giveaway!
Enter Fairhaven Health . Aside from having damn near everything you could ever need for boosting your fertility, tracking ovulation, and tests for seeking that ever-elusive BFP, our interactions with them have been overwhelmingly positive and they truly seek to make your family building dreams a reality. After a quick check of the male fertility enhancing products they offer, I can say that I wish I would have known about these folks when I was preparing for our second stimulation cycle. I could have taken some of their products instead of looking at several standard pharmacy for less-common supplements that were suggested to us by reading various blogs and chats.
Anyway, they have graciously offered to donate a BFP Test Strip Big Bundle which includes 30 ovulation test strips and 10 early detection pregnancy tests … better start drinking water now to be able to take all of these tests. Although the price for this is beyond reasonable (for those that do not win the give-away), free is even better. So, how do you get your hands on this? Easy, just go to our give-away on Raffle Copter and complete as many tasks as you are comfortable doing. The more you do, the better your chances. Good luck and we will pick a winner soon!
To enter in the giveaway please use this Rafflecopter below:
The Prize
1 BFP Test Strip Big Bundle-including 30 ovulation test strips and 10 early detection pregnancy test strips
How to Win
You can enter the giveaway by leaving a comment on this post and using the Rafflecopter Widget below. Having trouble? Click this link if you can’t see the giveaway widget. Please note that the giveaway is open to residents in the United States and Canada. I’ll randomly choose the winner and notify them via email. This giveaway closes on April 21, 2015 at 12:00am EST.
We wish you luck!
Blog with you soon,
The other C
(PS. This is not a paid giveaway, all opinions are our own)
This is a really cool prize. Thank you for offering it.
Also, this was nicely written, I’m sure Candace will be happy with your work when she comes back!
I’d love these! I usually buy the bfp pregnancy tests and I’m running out.
I would love these.
These would be great to have! We are currently in our own (in)fertility battle and the test strips will be put to good use as we keep on trying 🙂
This is very generous of you! It would definitely help my husband and I as we begin this journey of infertility.
These would be fun! Must pee on all the things 😀
I’d love to win because we’ve been trying to conceive for over 2 years now and I’ve gone through hundreds of ovulation and pregnancy test! I could sure use to win some as we are STILL TTC.
We have been trying for 6 months for #4 and this would be great to win!
I would love to win the strip bundle because I have been ttc for 10 years and this would greatly help in my journey.
Would love to win,we have had 10 losses (1 ectopic pregnancy) our last loss was last December I was 14+ weeks ..(few surgeries to remove scar tissue adhesions from ectopic pregnancy and other surgeries for cyst removal)..ready to get back to trying to conceive and would be great to have to know when I am ovulating ,I had been tracking before but no idea now so would be great!
I would love to win these because we have been trying to conceive for over 2 years, and the testing strips would help during the process! I love Fairhaven’s products and have used the bfp pregnancy test strips, but would love to try the ovulation test strips if I won!
I would love to win the BFP Test Strip Big Bundle because hubby and I are trying to have another baby after we lost one on Christmas Day last year. Want to surprise him!!
I’d love to win because it seems that we’ve gone through hundreds of these tests over the past 2 years of trying to conceive
I need this because im trying to get pregnant
I’m looking forward to meeting both of you at Advocacy Day and making sure our voices are heard!
I’d love to win the giveaway – thanks for the opportunity.
You post keep me smiling. Thank you. TTCing with fertility issues is no bueno and can take its toll on our sanity.