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(giggles) “It Happened Sooner Than We Thought!”

Pregnancy, infertility, and that whole dance.

Ted Bauer
4 min readSep 8, 2023

I’ve been riding the whole infertility train for about three years now. It broadly sucks and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but I’ve largely come to Jesus about it. My life is very weird currently — I just spent 20 years in mostly BS white-collar jobs staring at screens and wondering why the screens were relevant, and now I’m a bartender at a corporate sports bar chain, headed to Seattle later tonight for an Alaskan cruise (seven years ago I swore I’d never ever go on a cruise) — but I do try to temper the resentment associated with infertility as I move towards foster/adoption down the road.

It’s hard, though.

As you ride the ol’ infertility train, you realize there are certain triggers along the way…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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