Birth Control | The Naked Egg

Oh the Irony, you want a kid right? Yes? Good, take the white birth control pill.

Wait, What?

Birth control pill = quiet ovaries

Quiet Ovaries=no eggs

no eggs = no babies. So, why the white pill?

I started the IVF cycle a little confused in the bright and airy doctors office while the cheery IVF coordinator chattered with my husband and I about the upcoming months. I was still stuck on that pill. The white pill, the first step to having a baby.

It’s all to do with the ovaries.

As most women know each month our dreaded and very annoying aunt comes to visit. We deal with her in a range of ways, from cursing, binge eating, or assuming the fetal position and rocking back and forth chanting “Only ___ more days to go.” (You fill in the blank)

Then she quietly goes away with a wink, for we ALL know she’ll be back, and with a vengeance. Although when she is away we get to be our sexy selves again and the ovaries happily develop the largest single cell in the human body waiting for a champion swimmer.

It’s this single cell, or the egg, that is the problem. And that magic little white pill stops the ovaries from producing. And when entering the IVF cycle, where everything is timed to precision, (They put the North Korean army to shame) You.Must.Be.On.Time.

And thus, that little white pill, that one that prevents you from having a baby, happens.

Princess Peach (at top) Reminds us to take our Birth control. To bad my pharmacy was all out of Mario themed cases and chocolate.