Shout

Tri­cia authors a blog and would love noth­ing more than to have a baby. We are not sure why Tri­cia and her hus­band are hav­ing this par­tic­u­lar bout with ind­fer­til­ity, but we are new to her blog. The blog is named Shout.

The post was nom­i­nated by a pre­vi­ous win­ner and is an excel­lent piece of writ­ing because her words are so hon­est. You see Tricia’s sis­ter was about to give birth and because of her own sit­u­a­tion, Tri­cia feel­ings were a bit jum­bled. Of course she was thrilled for the sis­ter she loved, but was expe­ri­enc­ing all the pain her own ordeal has caused both she and her husband.

Tri­cia and her hus­band were on their way on vaca­tion when they heard that her sis­ter was giv­ing birth. Tri­cia told her hus­band to drive on toward vaca­tion and that she would see her sis­ter in two weeks and do the cel­e­brat­ing then. But then it hap­pened. Tri­cia wrote, “I think the truth about my hes­i­ta­tion to stay in Ver­mont or return to Geor­gia as sched­uled had more to do with my grow­ing fear that I’d not be able to keep myself in-check dur­ing a long hos­pi­tal wait. I was wor­ried that I’d fall to pieces, have a pity party or that I’d actu­ally stran­gle the grand­moth­ers and sister-in-law if they spent the wait­ing time recount­ing their own birth sto­ries. But I wanted to be stronger than that. I wanted to get over myself enough that I could par­tic­i­pate in this rite of pas­sage. I wanted my sis­ter to know I was there, that I wasn’t a self­ish twit mired so deeply in my own infer­til­ity pain that I couldn’t par­tic­i­pate in this cel­e­bra­tion of life. I wanted my sis­ter to know how deli­cious the thought is that she didn’t expe­ri­ence the pain I did on my road to moth­er­hood. I wanted my sis­ter to know how much I love her.”

We know you will enjoy this post. It’s title is Turn the Car Around, We’re Hav­ing a Baby from June 4, 2008. Our con­grat­u­la­tions go to the entire fam­ily and to Tri­cia. Best wishes for both for becom­ing an aunt and also for writ­ing The Ris­ing Blogger’s Post of the Day.

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.