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The Official TTC Thread!

Peony,

So, if a person wanted to know if they were ovulating "sufficiently," meaning well enough to sustain a pregnancy, there is a test to be completed 7 days after ovulation? Do you know the name of the test? I know about the test 3 days after your period, but not about one that comes 7 days after ovulation. I wonder if I should see about going in for that, once this ovulation comes around....
 
Hey, thanks ladies for all your affirmative votes that I O''d last month! I played around on FF, took out that really low temp after my possible O and it gave them back to me :) I know it''s not the best idea to fudge with the temps, but, I did :)

Wishing everyone a wonderful day!
 
Well, I went in for my post-op check up today and the doc said everything was good. I am back on the pill for now. She said she would prefer for me to wait at least 3 months. I need to get some of the weight off that I had gained already anyway. So for the next few months, I am going to focus on getting healthy so next time I can have a good chance of carrying to term. I will be popping in here often to keep up with everyone though!
 
Date: 1/5/2009 5:04:11 PM
Author: steph72276
Well, I went in for my post-op check up today and the doc said everything was good. I am back on the pill for now. She said she would prefer for me to wait at least 3 months. I need to get some of the weight off that I had gained already anyway. So for the next few months, I am going to focus on getting healthy so next time I can have a good chance of carrying to term. I will be popping in here often to keep up with everyone though!
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Good news, and good luck Steph in getting healthier! I do hope you know in your heart, though, that there was nothing you did wrong to cause your loss ...
 
Date: 1/5/2009 5:13:35 PM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Date: 1/5/2009 5:04:11 PM

Author: steph72276

Well, I went in for my post-op check up today and the doc said everything was good. I am back on the pill for now. She said she would prefer for me to wait at least 3 months. I need to get some of the weight off that I had gained already anyway. So for the next few months, I am going to focus on getting healthy so next time I can have a good chance of carrying to term. I will be popping in here often to keep up with everyone though!
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Good news, and good luck Steph in getting healthier! I do hope you know in your heart, though, that there was nothing you did wrong to cause your loss ...
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Thanks, sweetie. I do know that deep down, but there are still things that go through your mind...was I too stressed out, did I eat something too spicy, should I not have jogged that 1 mile, etc., but deep down I know. Thanks for that though
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Hey girls! I have bunches and bunches to say, but a quick quiz. . .


During which phase of the menstrual cycle is progesterone at the highest concentration?


A. follicular phase
B. ovulation
C. luteal phase
D. ovulation

If you choose C, congratulations! You just got a question right on a practice Kaplan MCAT I was taking today. That was just a stand-alone question, but wouldn''t it be awesome if I got a whole passage on fertility? A girl can dream!


Dreamer, if they are trying to woo you, you must be up to your ears in JPSP papers girlie! Will I see your name in the next issue of Science or Nature?

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J/k, but seriously rock on! Thanks so much for your empirical view of things I may encounter on the interview trail. I guess that it may really depend on the type of interviewer I get and what their attitude about work-life balance in medicine is. If I got a stogy old guy who isn''t so happy about female drs to begin with, I may be out of luck. The good news is that med schools are big on increasing the diversity and uniqueness of their admitted students, and I''ll sure be unique! Of course they can''t report me on any type of diversity statistics they publish, but at least I''ll be memorable. I will definitely acknowledge the pregnancy and make it clear that I''m okay with answering questions about how I plan to balance being a mom and a med student since I''m not sure they can legally ask me those things unless I bring it up. Also, the key thing is just having stellar "numbers"--GPA and MCAT--so I''m need to rock those. I''m shooting for another 4.0 next semester and a 35+ on my MCATs. I had good grades in college, but never stressed too much about my marks so I didn''t do spectacularly or anything. We''ll see! Please keep us posted about how things are going.


Festy, I love those OPK! They''re really useful for me since I have such erratic cycles and my CM isn''t always clear (wait, bad double entendre!).


Fisher, are you from California? I grew up in San Diego. I don''t think there''s a specific name for the test. You can just ask your dr. to test your progesterone 7 days past ovulation this cycle. I think it''s a pretty standard thing, as lots of women I know have it done. By 7 DPO, you''ll hopefully know if your ovulation is sticky.

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Sha, gosh all docs are so different! I visited my friend''s baby last night; she''s a Clomid baby and an absolute sweetheart! More to come on that later!


Steph, sorry to hear that you have to wait, but it sounds like you have a good attitude about it! I look forward to that time!

 
And now here is the news that I'm dying to tell! I had mentioned that my coworker's wife was due to had a baby soon, and she had it on New Years Day at 2am. She started pushing at 10:30pm on NYE, but the baby took a long time to be born. What a cool birthday, huh?

Anyway, she and her husband are absolutely wonderful, and they went through a lot to have her including just about every infertility test out there, Clomid, and two miscarriages (one after they'd seen the heartbeat twice. . . so sad; not trying to scare anyone though because this is pretty rare). With this pregnancy, she waited to tell anyone--even her family--until 20 weeks. Her original plan was to wait until 30, but obviously people figured it out
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. She just didn't believe that she was really going to have a baby until week 28 or so.

Soooo, even though she has TONS of family in the area she emailed me less than 24 hrs after they'd gotten home from the hospital inviting me to come over and see the baby. This is a woman who I've only met three times, yet she's been SO encouraging to me and truly made me feel like I'd be doing her a FAVOR to come over and hang out with her and meet her new baby. She knows about my miscarriage figured out how desperate I was to hold a baby I guess.
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I know that some new parents are finicky about germs, but the second I walked into their apartment she plopped the baby into my lap and I held her for over an hour. I assumed she'd be fussier, but she was SO calm and sweet and made these adorable mewing sounds. I was in love! I brought them over a homemade dinner and the four of us adults ate while the baby ate, and then I held her some more. I thought I'd be sad for myself, but instead I was just SO happy for her and my coworker.

DH got to hold the baby and he was in love too! He made a joke that before we were only kinda trying to have a baby, but now that we held this cutie we were really going to "get serious" about things and "improve our work ethic." He snapped two pictures, and here is one! Sorry for the weird angle, but I thought it best to pick the picture that didn't show the kiddo's face since she's not mine. You can see my huge smile though!
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She has been very open with me about her struggles, and everything out of her mouth is very similar to something I've thought or experienced. DH even asked her at one point if I was her twin. She told me a story that was kind of funny. She's a special-ed teacher, and one of the teachers at her school (who was 8 months pregnant at the time!) asked when she and her husband were going to have a baby. She explained that they were trying, but she was having difficulty because she had some ovulation issues. The woman said. . . "ovulation, what is that?" Gah, lol!

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Oh, I just realized that D on my test question was actually menstruation. I typed out ovulation twice, ha! I guess you know what's on my mind. I'm trying for more ovulation and less menstruation!
 
Hi Peony, I got the answer right, yay! Hey good luck to you as you''re preparing for med school. You''re so smart and kind a school would be crazy not to pick you. Your and DD''s comments about gender of the interviewers just reminded me about my sister''s experience in college while she was pregnant with and toting around her first baby. She noticed that the male professors were more understanding of her situation than the female profs. It''s probably more of an individual reaction, but I still thought it was interesting.

What a sweet little girl you got to visit! How nice of her mama to share the joy. I met a neighbor''s baby that was also born on New Years day. She was so tiny! 5 lbs.
 
Steph, good news from the Dr.
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Peony, cute picture!! You''ll have a child of your own to love and snuggle on soon.
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I am from Cali, yes. I lived there until after I graduated college, then a few laters later I moved to NC, where my grandfather was sick and I wanted to spend some time with him. I landed a great job, so I stayed in NC, he passed away, and then I started to get lonely. I got into a stupid (and I do mean stupid) relationship, finally worked my way out of it, and was planning to return to my beloved Cali when I met Paul. Then I ended up in Georgia. We go home to Cali a couple to a few times a year and my parents visit a few times throughout the year, too. It''s not that bad. But I do miss home!!

Where are you from?

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It''s been rainy here since we got home on New Year''s Day. I woke up three times last night (as usual) and could hear the rain. All night long. It''s been a drought-y (good word) time here, so it''s good that it''s been rainy, but I want to see the sun again!! I also want to learn to ride my bike. Hmm. The weather guy (because they always know what they''re talking about) said it should clear up Wednesday. We''ll see.

This cycle seems to be moving quickly, CD11 already. Yipeee! No news, of course, but cruising along, and hoping that I don''t have to wait three weeks or more for ovulation!
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Is everyone having a good 2009 so far? We don''t really do the whole "resolution" thing, since it never seems to stick. But, I do always try to focus in on something that I need to work on. This year, it''s been trying to be more understanding of Paul, and to realize that he''s not a woman and he isn''t as sensitive as I am and that he''s not trying to come across harsh at times, he''s just a boy. He doesn''t know that the way he phrases things that are totally harmless can hurt me, until after he''s said it and has hurt me. Does that make sense? I can be VERY sensitive and emotional at times, and I do think that TTC has added to that somewhat. Anyway, here it is 1/6, and I''ve already forgotten my dedication to being more alert to him and my desire to be more rational in expressing to him when my feelings are hurt (or at least bruised), and I failed. Last night he said something about how he''s a "man, and that''s what men do." And it was the most ridiculous thing in the world to me at that moment. Aye. Oh well, good thing we have the rest of our lives to grow, huh?
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Does anyone else have a resolution or goal for this year? I mean other than having a child growing within?
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Date: 1/5/2009 8:07:08 PM
Author: peonygirl
And now here is the news that I''m dying to tell! I had mentioned that my coworker''s wife was due to had a baby soon, and she had it on New Years Day at 2am. She started pushing at 10:30pm on NYE, but the baby took a long time to be born. What a cool birthday, huh?

Anyway, she and her husband are absolutely wonderful, and they went through a lot to have her including just about every infertility test out there, Clomid, and two miscarriages (one after they''d seen the heartbeat twice. . . so sad; not trying to scare anyone though because this is pretty rare). With this pregnancy, she waited to tell anyone--even her family--until 20 weeks. Her original plan was to wait until 30, but obviously people figured it out
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. She just didn''t believe that she was really going to have a baby until week 28 or so.

Soooo, even though she has TONS of family in the area she emailed me less than 24 hrs after they''d gotten home from the hospital inviting me to come over and see the baby. This is a woman who I''ve only met three times, yet she''s been SO encouraging to me and truly made me feel like I''d be doing her a FAVOR to come over and hang out with her and meet her new baby. She knows about my miscarriage figured out how desperate I was to hold a baby I guess.
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I know that some new parents are finicky about germs, but the second I walked into their apartment she plopped the baby into my lap and I held her for over an hour. I assumed she''d be fussier, but she was SO calm and sweet and made these adorable mewing sounds. I was in love! I brought them over a homemade dinner and the four of us adults ate while the baby ate, and then I held her some more. I thought I''d be sad for myself, but instead I was just SO happy for her and my coworker.

DH got to hold the baby and he was in love too! He made a joke that before we were only kinda trying to have a baby, but now that we held this cutie we were really going to ''get serious'' about things and ''improve our work ethic.'' He snapped two pictures, and here is one! Sorry for the weird angle, but I thought it best to pick the picture that didn''t show the kiddo''s face since she''s not mine. You can see my huge smile though!
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She has been very open with me about her struggles, and everything out of her mouth is very similar to something I''ve thought or experienced. DH even asked her at one point if I was her twin. She told me a story that was kind of funny. She''s a special-ed teacher, and one of the teachers at her school (who was 8 months pregnant at the time!) asked when she and her husband were going to have a baby. She explained that they were trying, but she was having difficulty because she had some ovulation issues. The woman said. . . ''ovulation, what is that?'' Gah, lol!
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Gah, indeed! Some people have it so easy, eh? She doesn''t even know what ovulation is??!!
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Glad you got to enjoy that little baby. I agree with fisher that you''ll soon have a cutie of your own to snuggle on.... And from that picture, you look like a ''natural''!
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Hey guys, good morning. I really hate to be a lurker in here, just moving in and out like the tides.

Fisher: Where in CA are you from? We''re in LA, been here all my life. If you come back here someday, maybe we could have a brief meetup? Our Pauls could hang out.
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We did kind of make resolutions, one of which is affecting TTC.

We''ve decided to put TTC on hold until we move to a bigger apartment. Preferably one with two bedrooms. We''re putting money aside for the first month/deposit and figure it''ll be done in 3 months or so, just putting the bits and pieces away. I''m surprisingly okay with this. :) We''ve been organizing all our things and moving our furniture around- tossing things we don''t use- just trying to get in the mindset of "haven''t used in a year? Toss it". We''re both really happy about the notion of a new bigger place. It''s kind of freeing, as Paul put it "Gives us hope of light at the end of the tunnel". I''ll be a little sad to leave the tiny crappy place we''ve called home for a majority of our relationship so far, if only because it''s just so familiar to me, and I quite honestly have a hard time letting things go. Still, a two bedroom is most thrilling to me. A NEW PLACE! With the new room, I have a feeling Paul would be a little more gung-ho about procreating, because we''re secure now, with a room just for the baby, instead of the ONE option of having the baby in our apartment. I mean, I know it''s possible to have a baby in a one bedroom apartment, but this way I''ll get to buy and decorate for a baby''s room. And that, to me, is what I want.

Sorry I wrote so much- yes, again.

LL: Stick around as much as you want!!

Lulu, sorry about the jerkass AFF showing up.
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I hope your appointment goes well (that was you, right?)

Steph: sorry you have to put the TTC on hold for a few months, but just think about how good you''ll feel when all your hard work is done, and you''re preggo!

Sunksit:
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Peony: I hope all is working well for you.

Sha: Hi!! I just wanted to give you my best hopes for a good cycle coming up, and some progress with a doc.
 
Thanks Amber....well, if you guys are waiting 3 months or so, looks like we''ll be trying around the same time. Good luck to you on the apartment!
 
Fisher - we are cycle buddies this month - I am on CD 11 too. I will be hoping for good news for us both!

Amber - Exciting news about the new apartment. It will be so nice to have a room for the baby to call its own and it will probably be nice to take the pressure off for a few months, especially while planning a move.
 
Fisher - I totally forgot to give you a shout out! Happy New Year. I''m sorry that AF was delayed, what a stinker. I won''t dwell on it but please know that I was (am!) really pulling for you.

Peony - Thanks for the pop quiz! It brings me back to the good ole days when I was doing the daily FF tutorial. What fun that was. I''d have been psyched to see that question too. What a great picture with your friend''s baby and how great that she gets what you''re going through. I have a couple of friends who struggled to get pregnant with their 2nd child, so I know that there are sympathetic ears out there. I haven''t been sharing a lot of detail with any of my friends about TTC but it''s good to know they''re out there if I ever need to vent to a real live body. Thanks for the feedback on the OPKs.

Steph - We''ll be here in 3 months! I hope you''ll continue to participate as much as you want. Good luck in your health regimen.

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CD 9 for me, I think we''ll have a lot of people on the same cycle. Having trouble distinguishing between watery and creamy CM, which normally wouldn''t bother me except I''m more in the woods without temping. Seemed like I had a bunch of watery last night, but given that it was only CD 8 I''m thinking it had to be creamy. How''s that for science?
 
I also forgot to say hi to November Bride (I got married November 3! What day did you get married?) Inluv, and Festy. I'm such an a-hole.
 
No worries, I forgot to say hi to you too, Amber! We can both be a-holes. Hi!
 
Thanks for the good vibes, Amber and Fisher.
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Amber, that''s great that you''re getting a bigger place. At least when you start TTCing again, you''ll be lots more comfortable doing so....
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I''m wishing good vibes for everyone this year, too. Is anyone testing soon? We need another BFP around here!!
 
Amber, that''s awesome about a bigger place. It sounds like an excellent direction to go in while taking a break from TTC for a bit. It sounds very refreshing being able to get into a bigger place too. Have fun!

Fisher, I like your resolution to be more understanding of our men. I''ve been trying to do that too. It can be hard. My other resolutions are - to try and move into a condo ( we don''t like our apartment neighbors
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), plan meals better & cook a bigger variety of meals, & build my friendships (since I don''t have too many girlfriends). Wishing us luck!
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Festy, I''m with you, confused on the whole CM signals my body is sending. I still am having a hard time detecting it and telling the difference. On one of the CM tutorials I''ve read online it said to (this is my *TMI* courtesty warning of the day) first go by feel when you''re wiping, make your judgement, and then maybe analyze it a bit more by sight and touch. But I don''t have enough to make the judgement just by the feeling with the tissue. I know before going on BC I had all the types of CM. I distinctly remember wondering what the heck was up with all these differnt types of stuff in my panties and why did it sometimes have to feel like I was peeing my pants/ starting my period! haha. I had no idea it was a signal that I was ovulating.
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I guess most of us didn''t before the whole TTC thing.

I''m on CD14 today. Hope hubby isn''t too tired, we need to get busy!
 
Sunkist,

I need more girlfriends, too. It seems like after college and entering the "real world," it gets more difficult to develop friendships. I still have my dear friends from school, but we all live in different states now.

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Amber,

My parents about an hour away from LA; I went to college and lived a couple years in Orange County (Irvine, Fullerton areas). Haha... it would be fun to meet up and have our Pauls talk middle school teaching, huh?

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Paul and I are planning our weekend trip for our second anniversary tonight. Whoo hoo! Nothing big, maybe just a day trip, but it''ll be a blast! Yay!!

I''m like on a crack high right now, just thinking about another celebration. I''m big into milestones and corny things like that.
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Hey guys - quick drive by...

I''ve been having cramping and spotting all day today. I don''t think this one is going to stick either.

I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning, but I''m not optimistic.

Just wanted to let you guys know.
 
Oh no, LL, oh no. I''m seriously praying for you guys. Be safe, know my thoughts are with you. *hugs* *dust*
 
Date: 1/6/2009 10:13:01 PM
Author: littlelysser
Hey guys - quick drive by...


I''ve been having cramping and spotting all day today. I don''t think this one is going to stick either.


I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning, but I''m not optimistic.


Just wanted to let you guys know.
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Prayers outgoing to you...
 
Oh no, LL! I am so sorry to hear that!! If it''s just spotting and not heavy bleeding the bebe may still be okay though! Gosh, I''m hoping so! Will check in tomorrow for sure. *hugs*
 
LL, I''m praying and hoping everything is ok.

Fisher, I live in Orange County! I did my gradschool at UCI. I''m in Costa Mesa now. Amber, are you in LA? Yay on the 2nd year anni, Fisher! Weekends away are awesome
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Oh sweet LL,

HUGE amounts of prayers going to you and your hubby and that baby. I hope the Dr. appt. brings happy news. You totally are due some, girlie!!

Again, wishing all the best news today!!


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November,

Hey girl. Yay for cycle buddies!! I'm pretty optimistic that this will be a "good" cycle and not long. Last cycle, by this day (CD12), I'd had a variance of temps from 97.49 98.1, which is a big variation. This cycle, I've had 97.45 to 97.75, which seems to be more in range for being *normal.* I'm hoping that will mean I won't have a cycle that's so long and that you and I will be closer to being "buddies" at the end of our cycles, too!
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Hoping the best for you, girl!!

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Sunkist,

You went to UCI? Shut up!! I went to Concordia University, Irvine. It's like next door to UCI! If you've not heard of it, don't feel bad. It's little and a lot of people haven't. I love the beaches around there. My parents don't live in OC, they're more east/northeast of LA. Man, I used to drive down PCH all the time. I'm jealous you can do that any time you want to. Take a cruise for me one day soon!!
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Oh, and I missed this in a post you made earlier: CM. Yeah, I'm apparently not as good at detecting/correctly naming it, either. DD, for all her wisdom, has helped me a lot, but I still get nervous to log it onto FF, since I apparently sometimes have patches of fertile that don't signal that O is coming. I think that mostly happens when my body has to gear up for possible O more than one time a cycle, though. Like, on the longer cycles. My less long (because I can't call them short) cycles, I don't think it's been a problem with FF. If I had left my CM on the chart I just had, I would have never gotten crosshairs, since I had three patches of watery and it confused the system. I don't know if it's good or bad to have more than one patch, but it was really confusing me and frustrating me and getting me hopeful for *nothing* and so I've really kind of stopped even checking it, since Paul and I are now used to starting BD around CD 15 and not stopping until crosshairs come and stay. I figure any less stress I can have, the better.

I've also decided that I'm not going to do the pee on a stick thing anymore, either. Not on like 12DPO or anything like that, anyway. If I get past 14DPO and want to test, I will. But I'm just so tired of the let down. And the expense. And Paul says he can really see a change in my whole demeanor when I take a negative test. I can, too. I think that for me, it's easier to just see if that moron period comes along or not. So, that could be added to another "resolution," I suppose. I know it'll be hard to follow this idea, but I hope to. I also "resolved" not to buy any more pregnancy tests, hoping what I have left will be all I need (I think we have three). Here's hoping!!


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Sha,

I hear you on needing to get some more good news around here. It's been a while since we had a big ol' pop of positives. Remember than one span of time where there were like 5 in a row? That was awesome!

Hope January will bring many positives, hey, I'd even take ALL of us getting one, and this thread being filled with all new TTCers. We could all bombard the preggo thread together. That'd be fun!
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LittleL - I''m thinking of you and hoping that everything is just fine - heaps of sticky dust!!
 
Oh no, LL....
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I hope everything will be okay...(((HUGS)))
 
Lysser, sending tons of sticky vibes your way!
 
LL - hoping your little bean sticks around! {{{HUGS}}}
 
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