Welcome!

Hi! I’m Lauren. It’s nice to meet you!

The grapefruit chronicles is a product of two things: an itch to write a blog for as long as I can remember, and some recent twists and turns in my life that have left me with lots on my mind.

My husband and I have been trying to conceive for a year and a half (since October 2017). I’ll be writing here about our experiences - past and present - on our (in)fertility journey. Real time we are in the thick of treatments, but I will be posting things on a bit of a delay or being vague about the timelines because, well, who knows how this will go! In our past treatments I’ve learned that I need to feel the feels on this roller coaster alone or with a few people before I am ready to share.

What’s with the name?

When we first started trying, we wanted to have a code name for our endeavor so we could talk and text about it in plain sight but not invite too many questions. We called it ‘grapefruit’. Then, when I outed my fertility struggles to a close friend who’d just recently announced her own pregnancy, she said: “I know it sounds weird, but you should eat a lot of grapefruit - it worked for me!” So in a strange way this pink fruit became synonymous with our (in)fertility journey… and is also one of my favorite foods.