My husband and his father celebrate an annual tradition of attending the Final Four together. Two years ago, he left for their 13^th straight trip, in Houston, just as the two of us were embarking on our 17^th month of trying to get pregnant.

When you’ve been trying that long and that hard to make a baby, and your husband is about to spend four nights 938 miles away from your ovaries, you make a contingency plan. In this case, it involved my being prepared to pay an obscene amount of money to book a last-minute flight to Texas, then sending his father for a massage so we could use their joint hotel room for a little March Madness of our own.

Two years later, we have a little girl, and I am happy to say that her conception story does not involve a Marriott double bed, nor is she named after any of the Connecticut Huskies (although “Shabazz Goldman” does have a nice ring to it).

And just for fun, a little March Madness lingo:

Air ball: Sex that fails to result in pregnancy.

Benchwarmer: A husband forced to sit on a waiting room couch as the doctor inseminates his wife with his sperm.

Buzzer beater: Frantic, desperate sex that takes place minutes or hours after a positive ovulation predictor test.

Draft: The selection process during which your reproductive endocrinologist decides which embryo(s) to place in your uterus.

Dribble: The melted white progesterone goo that leaks out of your vagina during an IVF/injectable cycle.

Double dribble: The light blue combination progesterone/estrogen goo that leaks out of your vagina during an IVF/injectable cycle.

Elite 8:Octomom’s brood; an undesirable IVF outcome.

Layup: The post-coital act of lying in bed with your legs in the air in order to give those swimmers a gravitational edge.

Rebound: The period after a failed month of trying during which you psyche yourself back up to give it another go, often with the assistance of copious amounts of Pinot Grigio.

Shot clock: The timer that starts ticking the moment you give yourself your HCG trigger shot and ends with you lying with your legs in stirrups for an insemination or embryo transfer.

Three-point play: Putting in three embryos because at this point, you don’t even care if you get pregnant with triplets – you just want something to stick.

Triple-double: Double-digit figures in three categories of infertility treatment (Example: 14 months of trying on your own, 12 months of Clomid or injectables, 10 weeks of acupuncture)

Slam dunk: To get pregnant during your first IVF cycle.

Plus, more from The Bump:

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Not so long ago, Superstorm Sandy damaged coast lines and homes all up and down the east coast. The storm even resulted in unprecedented disruptions to our every day family life. For many, it was lights out for weeks. So even though the storm was costly, was terrible and was a huge inconvenience for so many — it looks like our moms found a way to pass all that downtime: with some good ole’ fashioned babymaking!

At first we didn’t believe it, but it’s true! Moms are fessing up that they’re due come spring and summer and it’s all thanks to Sandy!

The New York Post caught up with Linda Roberts, a nurse manager at an OB/GYN office in Westchester, NY. She told the paper, “We started noticing a couple of weeks ago that we were getting really busy with phone calls and lab results and charts. We were like, what is going on here? And then all of a sudden, it dawned on me! This is right about the time when people would be coming in because they got pregnant during Hurricane Sandy.”

Midtown Manhattan is also seeing a pee stick positive spike. Dr. Jacques Moritz of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital said, “Oh yeah, we’ve seen our share of Sandy babies. I’ve had five or six who have come in and pointed out to me, ‘This is a Sandy baby!’… This group will be known as Sandy babies and proud of it. They have no qualms on that.”

So what are our moms-to-be saying about the Sandy baby boom?

“We conceived during the hurricane — we had no power for 6 days and had no school (I’m a teacher) for a full week.  I’m due July 24 but my first doctor’s appointment isn’t until December 17!  I can’t wait anymore!” – Sarah J.*

“I think we conceived on the 28th. We didn’t lose power, but we found other ways to occupy those rainy days! Our due date looks to be July 21.” – Megan P.

“Definitely a hurricane weekend baby here.” – Heather H.

“We found out during the hurricane, so it was nice to be off from work and share the day.” – Martha B.

“We conceived during the hurricane. We lost power for 5 days and I had IUI day before hurricane hit.” - Ellie T.

“Definitely having a hurricane baby — conceived on the 28th or 29th. I hope the hospitals aren’t too busy in nine months!!” – Harriet T.

“We were on vacation when Sandy hit and everything closed down so we stayed in at our bed and breakfast and kept ourselves occupied. Haven’t had our first doctor’s appointment yet but I’m thinking we conceived on Oct 30th or Oct 31st.” – Bethenny Q.

“Definitely conceived during Hurricane Sandy!!!!” – Lorianne R.

“We conceived during the hurricane. We would have been trying to conceive during that time anyway, but being home without power certainly made fitting in time to bd a lot easier!” – Mae Y.

“We conceived Oct 30th as well! We didn’t lose power but my husband was off from school the next day he’s a teacher, so we stayed up late and made a baby!” – Nora J.

“We did, too!  I think the east coast can expect an increase in July 2013 babies.” – Hannah H.

“We call our baby Hurricane Sandy since that’s when we conceived!” – Jacqueline D.

Looks like our moms are busy!

*Names have been changed.

When did you conceive your little one?

Plus, more from The Bump:

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If you’re trying to conceive, you might be doing a number of things to track your fertility, like counting the days of your menstrual cycle and taking your basal body temperature. And now there’s one more detail that might help you know when you’re most fertile: The number of sex fantasies you’re having. According to LiveScience, a new study from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada women may have more sex fantasies when they’re ovulating.

Researchers got 27 heterosexual women (most of them were college-aged) to keep track of their daily sexual fantasies in an online diary for a month. The women weren’t on birth control and took drugstore ovulation tests during each of the 10 days they would most likely ovulate. The average number of sexual fantasies for each woman was 0.77 a day, but around the time the women ovulated, those fantasies increased an average of 1.3 a day.

Very convenient, since if it’s the right time of the month for babymaking, you’re going to want to have an increased sex drive.

Do your sexual fantasies increase when you’re ovulating? What do you think of this study?