It was around the time my infertility issues came to light that I realized how little I knew about my own body!  Sure, I had giggled and blushed my way through the mandatory sex ed classes in school. And at age 11, my mom had given me a brief and embarrassing talk about how I would bleed once a month. But beyond that I never questioned what was happening in my body every month. Being on birth control pills as a young woman controlled my cramps and regulated my period so I didn't question what was happening. And in fact, when I went off birth control pills, I was delighted that I didn't get a period every month!  What a treat it seemed to go all that time, two months or sometimes three before my period would arrive! The only problem is, had I known anything at all about how our reproductive organs and hormones work I could have saved myself some definite heartache.

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