This ‘memoir of infertility’ tells us what it is like for a woman to keep trying to have a child An excerpt from ‘What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing in My Vagina’, by Rohini S Rajagopal Author Rohini S Rajagopal. After the second IUI, I went through two more. But I went about these with a perfunctoriness that came from anger and dejection. Like a sulking child, I went through the motions resignedly, not with purpose or intention. I didn’t even take time off to regroup. Between December 2011 and February 2012 I had three back-to-back IUIs – all drawing blanks. My uterus did put up a good show each time, producing four to five ripe follicles and a thickened endometrium, but inside I harboured no conviction that it would work – because if the second IUI which had my maximum investment had not brought the desired result, how was anything less going to suffice?