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Jumping the gun

l_h1977
  • By l_h1977 · Posted yesterday at 1:53 pm
  • 0 replies
  • I hope I just jumped the gun too soon, but Im pretty sure my blood work is accurate. It isnt close to me starting my cycle yet, but I have been having gallbladder pains and my doctor ordered a pregnancy ...

Emotional Rollercoaster

LostinNYC
  • By LostinNYC · Posted May 20, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • I'm having a difficult emotional roller coaster with a fiance who has no clue what I'm going thru. Why are men so clueless? So unfair to have to go thru this without their support ...

Full Moon Over Miami

aMiamiRN
  • By aMiamiRN · Posted May 20, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • I thought I had come so far from the darkness. I thought I had built my own tunnel through the deepest, murkiest parts of myself and escaped into the light. Of course I thought this, I was smiling, I ...

Crushed and throwing in the towel??

DMTL
  • By DMTL · Posted May 20, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • After 1 miscarriage, 1 chemical pregnancy and only 2 follicles on my last unsuccessful IUI after throwing every med at it I'm left with nothing but a bloated and bruised tummy, an extra 10pounds from ...

Confused

l_h1977
  • By l_h1977 · Posted May 20, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • I am unsure when to start the counting for my 2ww. According to the ovulation kit I used, I had high fertility 15 May through 20 May with no ovulation noted. According to the app on my phone, I should ...

IVF

KEF
  • By KEF · Posted May 19, 2013
  • 1 reply
  • Hi this is my fist post just had Egg retrieval yesterday 6 eggs 4 made it to day 1 . Feeling a little worried about not having that many the first time out. Will have to see which ones make it to day ...

Emailing a p announcement to a group

isabella28
  • By isabella28 · Posted May 17, 2013
  • 6 replies
  • Gold star worthy in my book. My husband's friend just shared that they are with child. He did so by emailing the news to a group. Best. Way. Possible. Like ripping off a bandaid. For those of you that ...

Going back to work

ashiely22
  • By ashiely22 · Posted May 17, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • I just started working again. It has been two months since my daughter has passed away. It has been hard for me. Don't people understand I dont want to talk about it at work. I don't want to be upset ...

Ovulation Kit

l_h1977
  • By l_h1977 · Posted May 16, 2013
  • 10 replies
  • Okay for the first time I am using an ovulation kit. I thought somehow I was using it wrong. It has shown me seven days of high fertility but no ovulation. So I am not sure if I just did not ovulate or ...

Mothers day

ashiely22
  • By ashiely22 · Posted May 12, 2013
  • 8 replies
  • Mothers day has been kind of hard for me. My daughter recently passed away. She was born at 24 weeks due to me having Preeclampsia. She passed away 11 days after she was born. I miss her so much and its ...

frustrated

Zosia_81
  • By Zosia_81 · Posted May 10, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • Found out today a close friend who has been trying for the same amount of time as us, are pregnant. This is incredible discouraging and makes me want to cry because it seems that everyone around us are ...

grief

nerdgirl13
  • By nerdgirl13 · Posted May 8, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • TTC for 10 years, I have been going to a counseler. We talked about the stages of grief. And I am still in the anger stage. How long will I be in this stage. My sister has four kids. My sister in law ...

I work with children for a living...it's a sick joke

Elizalou
  • By Elizalou · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 10 replies
  • Does anyone else work with young children for a living? I'm a school psychologist, so I see a LOT of pathetic excuses for parents. It makes me sick, and leaves me feeling like the world is so unfair ...

Okey dokey

l_h1977
  • By l_h1977 · Posted May 7, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • Yesterday was another day off, another appointment with the doctor that makes me cry every time I leave his office. And anyone who knows me knows I am not a cryer. He once again told me to lose weight ...

Letrozole vs Clomid

tuffin09
  • By tuffin09 · Posted May 6, 2013
  • 16 replies
  • Has anyone used letrozole with a hcg trigger? I was on a couple rounds of clomid only to have chemical pregnancy. Now my doc wants to try a more aggressive pill, letrozole. Anyone have any luck on this ...

Another egg down the drain...

misheldawn
  • By misheldawn · Posted May 4, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • We have been on hold since our first IUI didn't work in Feb. I lost my job in Feb and just didn't think it would take this long to find something. I think unemployment and IF are some of the toughest ...

Higher risk of birth defects with IVF/ICSI

lilsweetie
  • By lilsweetie · Posted May 3, 2013
  • 17 replies
  • I was reading a book today on ART and it said: "A study in Australia found that infants conceived with either one of these two procedures (ivf/icsi) were twice as likely to have a major birth defect diagnosed ...

Best timing for IUI after LH Surge

lilsweetie
  • By lilsweetie · Posted May 2, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • Studies show that the first positive LH test (using OPK dip sticks) was most frequently (44.5%) found at lunch-time (11:00–15:00). The live birth per cycle achieved was 5.6% when the insemination was ...

Another day off for an appointment....

l_h1977
  • By l_h1977 · Posted April 29, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • Well it looks like I have to take off another full day of work to go to the fertility endocrinologist to see what the next step is. It appears they did a test to see if I would be a candidate for IVF ...

Happy to be part of this group:)

Desperate4Baby
  • By Desperate4Baby · Posted April 27, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • I am new to this group but infertility is not new to me. My husband and I are going on 3 years of trying to conceive and 2 years of infertility treatments. We are a secondary infertility couple, as I ...

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