[.:Shortcake:.]

We have a lot of newbies and I thought that it would me nice to introduce/re-introduce ourselves
Everyone please come out and say hello! We would love to get to know you better.

Name & DH/SO/BF's name:
Age & DH/SO/BF's age:
Tell us a little about yourself:
Tell us a little about your TTC journey:
Anything else you would like us to know?

[.:Shortcake:.]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name:
Katie and DH is Matt
Age & DH/SO/BF's age:
23 DH is 25
Tell us a little about yourself:
I'm from a small town, I have to furbabies whom are like my kids Raven is a black lab and Remi is a yorkie/bichon friese mix. Photography is my passion in life. I love tattoos/piercings and if you saw me during my day job you would never know it lol. I'm a pretty positive person who enjoys doing anything I can to help others.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey:
DH and I got married in August 2008 and started trying right away. We found out we were expecting in October and December 15, 2008 we lost our baby boy. Continued trying and had another loss May 2009. Had 2 chemicals after that. Found out I had PCOS & Endo and had a Laproscopy/HSG/and endo removal July 2, 2010. Lost my twins 9-7-10. And another loss at 10-2-10. We are currently trying with Soy/Extra Folic Acid/Progesterone after O/And Metformin for PCOS.So as you can see our journey has already had many ups and down and we have only been married 2 1/2 years. We pulled through everything and are pushing forward and praying for our rainbow baby..
Anything else you would like us to know?
I'm here for any one. If you ever need to talk to someone or have any questions I'm only a PM away.

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Tiffany and DH is James.
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: 23 and DH is 31.
Tell us a little about yourself: I'm a SAHM of two girls age 3 and 1. I love crafting, music, and doing things with my family like going to the zoo or museums.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: I'm actually in the beginning of my first cycle TTC. We found out that we were accidentally pregnant in September and found out that our baby no longer had a heartbeat in November so since we had a D&E, we decided to wait before trying. I want another baby more than DH, I want my rainbow but he grieves differently and wants to hide from pregnancy altogether for fear that it will happen again but it's been discussed a lot and we're in agreement now. We are trying a boy sway. He doesn't care but this will likely be our last baby and I would like to have both genders of children but I will of course be happy with any sticky, healthy baby!
Anything else you would like us to know? I'm awesome. I also really enjoy the word 'awesome'.

[onedaysoon]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Charlene and DH is Steven
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: both 31
Tell us a little about yourself: I'm not very exciting. I have 1 daughter who is almost 16 months old and 2 cats (Gilligan an 11 year old grey tabby and Ernest my 5 year old orange polydactyl tabby). I live about 500 miles away from my parents and about 10 miles away from DH's parents lol.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: With DD it was 3 months TTC. Then, with the next pregnancy it was 2 months, and we had the loss at 9 weeks. We decided we did not want to wait long to TTCAL, so as soon as we saw my OB about 6 weeks after and she gave us the okay, off we went...and here I am, so happy and scared at the same time.
Anything else you would like us to know? Just that the TTCAL group of girls has been the most welcoming forum I've been to yet! I wish every one of you sticky beans in the very near future! Thank you for listening to all of us.

[Shadeauxe]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name:Courtney/Dan
Age & DH/SO/BF's age:38/35
Tell us a little about yourself: I am weird, but not in a serial killer way
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: Have 1 son (5) and took us 1 year to get prgnant, had MC in December
Anything else you would like us to know? The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow is not known to me, but could I impart this piece of information, I would.

[StaceygirlPa]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Stacey DH is Bill

Age & DH/SO/BF's age: 41 and DH is 39

Tell us a little about yourself: I always loved living in a city. When I moved to Pa to be closer to my mom 11 years ago I hated the small town I lived in. I met Dh and discovered I love living in the country. I can't wait to get home after I get off work. We live on a small farm. Right now we have a bull, cow, 1 horse, chickens, 1 goat, 4 dogs. We are working on getting another pig. If we had more room and more time we would have a lot more on the farm. There was no surprise when I feel in love with DH when I found out he lived on a farm. Right after I met DH I was told I had thyroid cancer. I was scared to tell him thinking he might leave me. We were only dating for two months when I found out. The night I told him he just sat me down and held me telling me everything was going to be fine.

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We have been trying almost since we got together. With our age we really didn't want to wait. I have PCOS. We were told we couldn't get pregnant on our own. We did a IUI in June of 2010. We got pregnant but sadly loss little peanut in July. I had to have a DNC and had complications from that. I heard good things about soy and took soy in November. Found out we were pregnant in December. Sadly this was a chemcial. We just had another chemcial this month. Although we just had two chemcials we are happy because we got pregnant on our own.

Anything else you would like us to know? I always try to treat people how I want to be treated. I have been told I am a good listener and I always try to be there to help anyone that needs help.

[Shadeauxe]

I wish I could live on a farm. I'm not being facetious. I would love to have animals and room to grow stuff. I have a big yard, but it's surrounded by giant trees, so there's not enough full sun to grow anything.

[mom2moose]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: My name is Jenny. DH's name is Joe
Age & DH/SO/BF's age:I am 35 and hubby is 27. (Yup. I'm a cradle robber). LOL
Tell us a little about yourself:I have a wonderful daughter who is 2.5, names Morgan (we call her Moose) and I'm a stay at home mom.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: I was married before. We tried for 6 years to get pregnant. The docs told me I had a lot of little problems, but they assumed I would never have a baby. My husband was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and passed away the night of our 6th wedding anniversary. Thought all chances of a baby were out. Met my (now) DH, almost 5 years ago. Explained to him there would be no babies. Two years later I was shocked to be pregnant. One complication after another but I now have a healthy and fantastic 2.5 year old. Got pregnant this past Jan. Went in March for the doc appt and u/s. Discovered no heartbeat. Very next day I had a D & C (I just wanted it over). Started trying again this Oct and got my BFP a few weeks ago.
Anything else you would like us to know? I am terrified everyday that my baby is not alive in me and I won't know again like last time.

[ashj_1218]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Hi, I am Ashlee and I am a pee-stick-oholic. Oh, wait...wrong thread . I am Ashlee, DH is Dave.
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: I am 26 and Dave is 28
Tell us a little about yourself: Uh, I am tall. And I like to pee on sticks? And I might be feeling snarky lately. And I have a little boy who I adore most of the time but is really in a bad stage right now. The end.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: I had a miscarriage back before I had Liam, but it did not mean a lot to me. I got pregnant with Liam in Feb 2009 and had an entirely uneventful pregnancy, delivering at 36 weeks. He is a healthy 15 month old (today!) After him, we got pregnant in May 2010 and found out we lost him (or her) in July. I was heartbroken, we had a d/c. Immediately following, we had three chemical pregnancies (or early losses, since they were confirmed with blood) in a row. I started at the RE's office in November and we recently found out I have a blocked left tube and Anticardiolipin Antibody Syndrome. We have hope of keeping a pregnancy if I give myself blood thinners and baby asprin for the duration of the pregnancy. We are trying for a sticky bean right now (Well, not at this moment...but you get the idea)
Anything else you would like us to know? Most of this post was sass, all truth, but with a sassy edge.

[AZsnowflake]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name:
Rachel & Tom

Age & DH/SO/BF's age:
24/25

Tell us a little about yourself:
I was a hairstylist and still do some on the side for family and friends. I enjoy it but there are so many other careers I want to pursue and I can't possibly nail down one, however we don't have the funds for me to be a college student my whole life! There's just so many things I want to learn and do!!

Tell us a little about your TTC journey:
We got married 11/2007 and at that time I had said I don't want kids for a while (watched my BFF give birth and I was scared straight lol). But around Jan (yes two months after marriage) DH brought up the subject and said he was ready. I thought about it for a hwile and always knew I wanted to be a young mom (I used to say that I wanted to be DONE having kids at 25!) so I said ok let's do it. I was a smoker and quit smoking Feb 1st, the same day I stopped my BC. We got pregnant on Valentine's Day with Alex and my pregnancy was easy, I had NO pregnancy symptoms (which now would alarm me but then I was thankful!) and it was such a breeze. He was born 7 days before our first wedding anniversary. I was in a stretchmark study and agreed not to get pregnant for a year while doing it, we wanted to start trying last May 2010 but the study (which I thought ended then) I guess didn't end til sept so we moved our plans back. Went off BC beginning of July and got pregnant the end of August. I had ALL the pregnancy symptoms with this baby, sore boobs, sickness, fatigue but had the miscarriage in December 2010. Now we are awaiting the green light (hopefully tomorrow, and if not we will still TTC anyway lol) to TTC our 3rd, and hopefully our rainbow baby!

Anything else you would like us to know?
I am so thankful for this site

[j&jmom]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Jenna and dh is Jace

Age & DH/SO/BF's age: 34 & 32 I think . . . I hate keeping track of my age! LOL (I noticed there are a few of us with younger men!)

Tell us a little about yourself: I am a mom of two boys which pretty much keeps me busy with all the activities they are already in. Dh and I live in two different cities at the moment. We are waiting until the end of the school year to move up there since I'm an educator and both of my boys absolutely adore thier teachers. The time apart is driving me crazy though!

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: Dh and I have been ttc since late 2009. We got pg almost immediately, like my other children, in Jan 2010. However, it wasn't meant to be. We took a break and weren't sure of ourselves, but we finally started ttc again with no luck. Of course, dh's new job takes him away from home alot and now the 2 different city thing gives me the feeling that this is going to be a very long journey.
Anything else you would like us to know?

[okiliz]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Liz and DH is Quincy
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: I'm 30 and DH is 32

Tell us a little about yourself: I love animals and I have the habit of rescuing almost anything that needs a home . I'm going back to school and I love to read . I'm a SAHM to Alaina who is 6 and Sophie who is 2 and a half . I love my kiddos to bits . Hubby is in the military and we are stationed overseas in Japan at the moment .

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: I was married before and we tried with out medical help for a total of about 5 years and never got pregnant . My oldest is from my ex and she was a total surprise.. I went to the ER because I thought I had food poisoning and they did a beta and said you are a little bit pregnant.. They thought she was a tubal and kept me there for a week, which at the end of my stay they found a tiny blip on the ultrasound that is now 6 years old :-) . I later remarried and we tried for 2 years to get pregnant with my youngest, the only thing we had used was clomid, did not work... I gave up and decided to use herbs and what not while I waited for my RE appt, the day before that appointment I took a pregnancy test and it was positive.. Due to my history after my youngest was born they referred me out for fertility help right away( well 4 months later) we started trying on our own .. This time we tried for 22 months and after many failed cycles, our first IUI with injections worked, went in for 7 week ultrasound, 1 heartbeat... yet something did not feel right.. went in for my 10 week at the regular OB and they coudl see two babies but only 1 heart beat.. said baby A woudl be fine not to worry.. a week later we lost baby A ... That was in June, I had to have 2 D&Cs.... we have only done one complete cycle with the RE since my loss and it did not work but we jsut started our next IUI cycle. I go back on Sunday for a follie check and if I have enough growth and HCG trigger ,monday IUI !!

Anything else you would like us to know? I love being helpful... I tend to tell it like it is although i don't try to hurt anyone's feelings . I LOVE honesty even when it hurts because I would rather know the truth then live a lie .. Oh and I am a research monkey !!! and a POAS addiction like no other.. it's bad.. I mean I just ordered a total of 100 tests from E-bay...and will buy more here... each payday... they can't commit me !!! haahaha

[MeganMomof5]

loved reading everyone's intro's/story's

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Megan (duh) and Tyler

Age & DH/SO/BF's age:Me (31) DH (38)

Tell us a little about yourself: I'm a SAHM, and have been for the last 12 years almost!...I like to clean, cook (sometimes) and spend time with my family...I like to garden, do crafts and I enjoy going to concerts

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We have been married now for 11 years (together for almost 13)...We have 4 children, 3 girls and a boy!...I thought we were done having children, till my son was around 2 and I felt like we should have one more baby...After a year of trying to talk DH into it, he agreed (all the time I was hoping for an oopsie lol)....We found out I was pregnant in June 2009, I was thrilled! at around 10 or 11 weeks I found out I had thyroid cancer, and was told i'd have to have surgery to take my thyroid out (while pregnant)...We picked a date in my 2nd trimester...So at 19 weeks 3 days into my pregnancy (september 23, 2009 I had my surgery...Things went well, baby made it through...2 weeks later I went in for my routine OB appointment, only to find out my baby girl no longer had a heartbeat...She was bornstill a week later ...I jumped into TTC right away...I found out I was pregnant just 3 months after Ella's birthday...The pregnancy was going well, lots of ultrasounds and appointments...I went into a routine OB appointment at almost 15 weeks only to find out my baby no longer had a heartbeat...I had a D&C on April 6,2010...I had complications after my D&C and hemorrhaged and ended up in the hospital mothers day weekend and had a 2nd D&C and 2 blood transfusions...I got better pretty quickly after and found out I was pregnant on June 24, 2010...I was surprised it happened so fast!...I went in at 7.1 weeks and had an ultrasound, and we had a baby with a heartbeat!!! The next day while blow drying my hair, I started gushing blood ...I went to the ER and after begging them, they gave me an ultrasound which showed a baby with a heartbeat, and a hemorrhage behind my placenta...For the next 2 weeks I was on "bedrest" and lived off of water...I never stopped bleeding...It was horrible...Then August 2nd right before bed I started to cramp...The next morning it got worse by the minute, I felt like I was in labor, and ended up misarrying my baby ...I took a break to get testing done, and am now trying again! (sorry that was so long)
Anything else you would like us to know? Not that I can think of

[*Tracy*]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: tracy dh name is darren
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: im 29 soon to be 30 and dh is 35
Tell us a little about yourself: i am a sahm and love it, i have been for almost 3 years now
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: i decided i wanted another baby early last year and had to convince hubby lol by may last year i was pregnant but sadly 2 days later i started bleeding (chemical) then again end of september i found out i was pregnant again everything was going fine untill around 7.5 weeks in i started bleeding straight away i knew it was over i went to a&e and they booked me a scan which i went for and was told the baby had died at 5 weeks so it was a missed miscarrige again (had 1 in june 08 also) i had to have a d&c which was on the 15th november 6 weeks later week before christmas i found out i was pregnant again but sadly again started bleeding on new years eve ive had bloods taken and my hcg was back down to a 1 last week they checked loads of other stuff also to see if we can find out y this keeps happening but nothing came back so got to wait for appointment for the gyno doc
Anything else you would like us to know? i just hope every single lady in here gets there rainbow baby i really do, i wouldnt wish a loss on my worst enemy ive gone through 4 and just hope i can have my baby soon

[SkyBaby]

My name is Kira and I'm married to my best friend, Anthony. I am 23 he is 25. We are trying for our first with one angel above (early loss).

I am a kmart cashier (I hate my job lol) and photographer on the side. He is a lvn. We are hoping it's our turn soon.

[JessP]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Jessi and Chris
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: 31 and 32
Tell us a little about yourself: I am active duty Coast Guard and DH works for the State Patrol. We have 2 children 6 and 4 and 2 angels Feb 09 and Feb 10.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We TTC our third child November 08, got preggers and didn't think anything could go wrong. I m/c at 15 weeks and had to have a D&C. In Dec 09 we got pregnant again after 5 months of TTC only to m/c again at 12 weeks. My first loss date is Feb 25th 2009 and the second is Feb 20th 2010. In November 2010 instead of TTC I started training for a Triathlon with Team in Training. New Years Eve we conceived the child I am now carrying. Guess miracles can happen .
Anything else you would like us to know? I have to say that my mental state this pregnancy is much better than my last. I still have worry but it isn't the same. I genuinely feel that we are going to make it this time and in September be holding our beautiful rainbow baby. Don't lose hope. I thought we would never get pregnant again or that when I did I would be a basket case. I am pregnant and doing really good . I am also the host of the pregnancy loss board, more of a lurker here cheering everyone on .
to everyone!!

[*SamF*]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Sam DH is Jim
Age & DH/SO/BF's age: 40/41
Tell us a little about yourself: DH and I both were married before for 10 years with no children, both divorced about the same time and decided to get back together- we were college sweethearts. Both of us had always wanted children, so we started trying right away. I work in budget, he's a teacher. And I'm a mom to a wonderful energetic 1 year old.
Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We got pregnant a couple months after we got married then m/c'd. 2 more losses after that, had surgery for a uterine cyst. Got pregnat with twins in April 09, lost a twin in June, DS was born in January. We started TTC#2 in July, had a chemical/early loss in August got pregnant immediately after, baby passed away from trisomy 18, had a D&C two days later.
Anything else you would like us to know? This is my second tour here at TTCAL.

[Mom 2 Avery]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: I'm Dawna and SO is Anthony

Age & DH/SO/BF's age: I'm 49 in April and he's 46 next month

Tell us a little about yourself: I'm a purchasing agent and I love my job because I get to shop all day!!!

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We got pregnant the first time we had relations in 2005, only to lose our precioius Avery at 22 weeks. We just got back together and have decided it's time for a brother or sister for our angel. I also lost two other babies that weren't his...one in the summer of 1981 and one in April 2006. I really, really pray God has one more miracle in store for me!!!

Anything else you would like us to know? I am an aunt and we just found out that my niece is pregnant with her first child. Since my sister died in 2007, it's my official responsibility to be Na-Na! The baby's due in September!!!

[Jessica121706]

Name & DH/SO/BF's name: Jessica and Adam

Age & DH/SO/BF's age: I just turned 24 and Adam is 25

Tell us a little about yourself: I am a sahm to Sara. She is 4. I love scrapbooking and dancing. I am a tv fanatic lol. We just moved from PA to VA so I am working at getting my business up and running again.

Tell us a little about your TTC journey: We have just decided to TTC. We have 1 loss. I found out I was pregnant (which was an accident). It was a really tough time in DF's and I relationship. During the first trimester screen I learned that my baby had downs and later learned of heart problems. The baby was given lil chance of survival and with dd being so excited about being a big sister and the 2 of us already attached I made a decision to terminate the pregnancy to prevent making it harder on my family. If anything good came out of the loss it brought DF and I back together and opened the lines of communication even more. On January 12 (my birthday) df decided that it was a great time to start ttc so now i am just waiting for af to get out of here so that we can practice before oing lol
Anything else you would like us to know? I am planning a wedding (date tbd). And that I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason.

[missy123]

Originally Posted by Shadeauxe

Anything else you would like us to know? The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow is not known to me, but could I impart this piece of information, I would.

What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?



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