Climbing the hill of conception

A Doctor of Chinese Medicine friend of mine said that I should, among other things, hold as many babies as possible while I'm trying to conceive. I'm sure there are studies showing the correlation here, I just haven't found them. However, he said his wife is convinced she got pregnant because she held a friend's baby daily. I believe the theory is that, when holding a baby, your fertility hormones are stimulated. I like this idea. It's nice and nurturing and makes good sense to me, even if I can't find any evidence to support it.

So today, on my regular walk with a dear friend, I embraced my desire to have a baby by, well, embracing a baby - her 10-month-old son, to be precise. I've never actually worn a sling before but we strapped me up and slung him in. And then we walked. Up a really big hill. As he giggled and cooed, I huffed and puffed. And nearly collapsed at the top. Truth be told, it was a small price to pay. As another dear friend of mine so eloquently put it, "I'd spin on my head and spit nickles if I thought it was going to help me get pregnant." That will be on the next walk...