Okay right...so where's my credit card?

Excuse me while I go on a tirade. Because I've been googling too much lately I came across this annoying site that immediately made me click off. Then I went back because I was so angry. Then I said okay wench you're in my blog and there will be no glowing light shining on you!

You see, maybe you hadn't heard but Carol Andrews, an Australian mom claims that she's stumbled across a miracle secret for getting pregnant after years of fertility problems. The cure? Whop out that credit card and you can download the Miracle Secret for just $29.95 . Okay this is the sort of stuff that just raises the hair on the back of my neck. She's not a doctor, not a specialist, not a scientist, not any sort of anyone really. She just surfed the internet a lot like we all do, looking for reasons why nothing is working. She found some interesting information (I've got lots of that in my sidebars here) blah blah blah, relaxed, got pregnant and now she wants to prey on your insecurities about not getting pregnant. The woman is the lowest form of bacteria on the planet, a charletain in apparently now 'fertile' sheeps clothing. "oh yes, I'm just like you, only with more cash flow now,...won't you please TRUST me?"

She has lots of misinformation and a cluttered arrangement of facts in her little story:

"We even took the phase of the moon into account as I'd discovered something called the “biorhythmic lunar cycle”, in which research seemed to show that a woman is at her most fertile during her lunar peak, ie at the same phase of the moon that was present at her birth!!"

From my understanding it's a theory that a woman may ovulate again during a lunar peak not that she's the most fertile. Not quite right Carol.

"So Lindsay had his sperm count tested. I had an ultrasound and some blood tests to check for endometriosis or other physical problems, as well as hormonal or other physiological causes."

Umm, okay quick ultrasound to check for everything? Didn't she have an hsg to check for problems? What can an ultrasound tell you? Not much that's what. Maybe that was her problem from day one. The lady has NO idea what's going on with her body. This pisses me off worse than the fact that she's hawking something to innocent women.

"I'd been putting off going to the OB-GYN for fear of what I'd be told. I had a good friend who'd been going through ivf (unsuccessfully) and the thought of going through the same thing terrified me."

Uh, Carol dear...HELLO it's a REPRO-DUC-TIVE ENDO-CRINOLO-GIST that your dear friend was probably very diligently visiting. You went five years without getting pregnant and never saw an RE? I think I see your problem. Failure to FULLY delve into the problem at hand. tsk-tsk. Oh and just for the record it is terrifying going through ivf, especially unsucessfully. Maybe you should be thinking about that as you continue to PROFIT daily from the people you're selling all this miracle information to. Grrrr!

Here's the real crap. People like me have obviously written scathing letters to her telling her what a low grade theif she is. She responds in her FAQ file with this:

"Firstly, the simple fact is if I did not charge any money for the book no one would get access to the information, as I could not afford the cost of running the website"

Aren't lots of websites these days FREE. You can even get advertisers to help you cover costs for the better sites, right? It's only innocent fools who would believe such a barefaced lie. And what are her costs really? Come off of it.

"I would think that $29 is a very small cost for information on how to have a child. I think that most people would feel that this is a fair exchange as well. Most people are not upset when the doctor charges them for a consultation, or when a store owner changes them for food when they are hungry."

I think the key word here is DOCTOR, as in a person with an education. I just don't get the store owner thing but the hunger analogy has me guessing she'd be the one in India selling bread and bottled water to earthquake victims.

"I spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to gather the information in the book. To give all of this for just $29 is surely worth it."

Thousands? Really, come on. THOUSANDS? I don't think so. Prove it. And since when you should you get paid for surfing the internet for infertility problems? Hey we'd all be living fat and sassy if that were the case.

I don't know if my mom is right about karma but I know enough about humanity that you don't PROFIT from the problems of others. This is especially true if you yourself have experienced the same level of despair that they've suffered and ultimately (and apparently 'miraculously' in Carol's case) survived. Because it's this line that grabbed me:

"After two years of hope fading to frustration, fading to sadness and emptiness, I knew I had to do something or I would go crazy."

Now that's the only sincere part of her story. I see her as one of the masses of women suffering through IF. I just don't get how someone from the trenches can be so heartless.