Private Life

I’ve been avoiding this movie on Netflix for MONTHS. It’s about a couple struggling to have a baby by really any means necessary: IUI, IVF, egg donation, adoption, baby theft. It gets deep into the weeds of the obsession and frustration and heartbreak and madness and mania of infertility. People keep telling me to watch it, but I’ve avoided it, as I didn’t want to have my own feelings shouted back at me. But I finally succumbed and I’m so very happy I did, because if you’re going to go through something trying, there is really nothing better than Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti reflecting your own experiences back to you, and making it all funnier and more profound than it could ever be in your own life. If you’re out there, and for some reason you’re like I haven’t experienced infertility, but Gosh I’d sure like to know what it’s like in Bekah’s head right now and / or what it’s like to get shots in your ass every day and crunch fistfuls of multi-vitamins in hopes they’ll make it down to my eggs THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU. (It’s for everyone else, too. It’s just very, very good.)

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