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Hello ladies! Calling all Lurkers, Newbies, Graduates, Regulars ....

Please take a moment to share a little about yourselves, your angels, your journey and a little about your journey



Name/Age:

DH/SO/BF:

Angels/Angelversaries:

Tell us a little about your journey:

[kaylakay]

Name/Age: Kayla, 20

DH/SO/BF: David, 21

Angels/Angelversaries: We have had a loss September 22nd, November 16th, and January 27th.

Tell us a little about your journey: We had an "ooopsie" pregnancy last September but was totally thrilled and couldnt be more happy. We ended up miscarrying 2 weeks later. We conceived right away again with no cycle in between we lost that one too. We had one cycle and fell preggo AGAIN in January. Only to had a "suspected ectopic" (Never confirmed on ultrasound) so one dose of MTX and we lost that one too. We currently are waiting to start TTC probably end of September due to my blood tests results which showed I have insulin resistance, low progesterone, and a slightly abnormality with blood clots. We have to wait for my insulin to go down that once it was... I will start taking baby aspirin the cycle we start trying, extra folic acid, progesterone 3 DPO, and once a BFP HOPEFULLY a blood thinner.

That is me.

[3Sapphires]

Name/Age: Ami - I turned 29 for the 4th time in march

DH/SO/BF: Mike - he is 34 and apparently proud of that! LOL

Angels/Angelversaries: 6/5/2010

Tell us a little about your journey: we had ben ttc since my son was 5 months old, it took 14 months to get pregnant with the baby we lost. We have been ttc since then, so 13 months since my loss.

[doremi]

Name/Age: Sarah, 32

DH/SO/BF: DH Paul, 36

Angels/Angelversaries: m/c May 2011 @ 5wks

Tell us a little about your journey: We got pregnant on the second cycle with my son Josiah, then it took 8 cycles to get pregnant with our angel. I've had two cycles since the m/c, and we are going to start TTC this cycle. Just got two faint lines on the OPK today!
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[luvmykids623]

Name/Age: Lori - 31

DH/SO/BF: Jeff - 32

Angels/Angelversaries: 3: 8/12/05, 8/27/07, 9/21/10

Tell us a little about your journey: We have been TTC take home baby #3 since July 2010. I got pregnant at the end of July, but had to have a D&C at 11w (9/21/10), because my baby's heart stopped beating at the beginning of September, and my body wasn't understanding that something was wrong. I got my first af after the d&c on November 1st. We're now on our 8th cycle ttc since the D&C. I've started with a new OB who sent me for lots of testing and found a clotting disorder and sent me to an RE. I went to an RE who thinks I've had an ovulation problem all along that could be the cause of my losses. I'm on cd6, and I'm currently on my 4th day of injectables. We'll be doing IUI this cycle too. I'm praying this is it for us!

[Shadeauxe]

[nala139]

Name/age: Megann 28
DH: Greg 26
Angels/anniversaries: 5/1 miscarriage at 9 1/2 weeks
Tell us a little about your journey: We started ttc January 2010. Tried and tried with no luck. I realized DH had a varicocele and he went to a urologist and was officially diagnosed. He also had a sa that showed low morphology. He had surgery in march. I actually got pregnant right before he had surgery on our 14th month trying. We lost it in may. I am really hoping that the surgery helped his sperm and it doesn't take us so long to get pregnant again.

[melissalaw]

Name/Age: Melissa 37

DH/SO/BF: Stephen 41

Angels/Angelversaries: m/c in June 2011

Tell us a little about your journey: My husband I got married in May 2008 and I was on birthcontrol at the time. We had planned on waiting a while to get pregnant but God knew better than us and I got pregnant in Nov 2008 and gave birth to our little boy in July 2009. We started TTC our second in Feb 2011 and got pregnant on second cycle. We learned on June 3, 2011 that the baby did not have a heartbeat and I had a D & C on June 6, 2011. I just started my first AF since mc so we are going to start trying again this month. Hoping and praying for a healthy little baby.

[acchickpea]

Name/Age: Julie / 32

DH/SO/BF: D /32

Angels/Angelversaries: March 3, 2011

Tell us a little about your journey: My DH and I were married in 2005 and waited to start on growing a family. We actually started TTC in 2008 and never really knew how hard it would be to get pregnant...
My husband and I went to a specialists and he was good and there was nothing the specialist could find that was wrong with me either.... other then me being really irregular. Tried Provera to jump start my cycle and clomid (numerous times with different dosages) and still nothing. I decided to take a break from all the meds and then got pregnant only to find out that at 10 weeks the day right before my 10 week check up that I had a natural miscarriage. ( me sad...)
I was put on birth control and I have 2 more weeks left to start trying again... (me happy)
Such a roller coaster ride......

[*SamF*]

Name/Age: Sam 40

DH/SO/BF: Jim 41

Angels/Angelversaries: too many- listed below my siggy.

Tell us a little about your journey: We got married in April 2008, started trying before we got married. Had three losses, the I had hysterscopy/laprascopy surgery- removed a cyst. Did MA and got pregnant with DS and his twin who we lost early. Then we started trying again June of last year, and have had three losses since. Still trying MA, hoping we get our sticky bean.

[LilHerndon]

Name: Lindsay, 25

DH: Chris, 28

Angel: 4/23/2011

Journey: We started NTNP in January 2011, then moved to TTC in March. We got pregnant in April, but it turned out to be an ectopic that ruptured. They saved my tube, but there could be scar tissue (have to do the wait-and-see method). I have not had AF since the surgery in April, so I started Provera this past tuesday (june 28th), and I'm hoping I get AF in another week or so. No plans for clomid yet, gonna see if the Provera jump starts my system (I have a lot of doubts about that, I've always been irregular and suspect PCOS). So that's where I'm at...hoping the next 2 months go by fast so I can see if the Provera works.

[Braysmomma03]

Name/Age: Michelle 28

DH/SO/BF: Dh is Andrew 28

Angels/Angelversaries: We have an angel baby due August 28th, 2011

Tell us a little about your journey: We started trying to conceive right after we got married, it took us 1 year to get pregnant with our angel baby. We sadly lost it on January 1st, 2011. We have been trying since to get pregnant and nothing, after a visit to the doctor we have found out we have male factory infertility and are now on vitamins to increase it!

[Jessido]

Name/Age: Jessica 23

DH/SO/BF: Jordan 23

Angels/Angelversaries: Our son Liam who was born at 18 weeks on 2/16/11

Tell us a little about your journey: Jordan and I were surprised by our pregnancy with Liam. We were totally happy and excited and unfortunately we were devastated when he was born too early to survive. We are currently TTC our second child.

[fromustobaby]

Name/Age: Tonya/34

DH/SO/BF: Matt/35

Angels/Angelversaries: 4/21/11 at 9 weeks

Tell us a little about your journey: TTC for real (not just NTNP) in November 2008, had super long cycles, got Clomid which regulated them, but no pregnancy on 2 cycles of it, break cycle in June 2009 got pregnant with Kaiden and it was a perfect pregnancy...breastfed him, so never got AF, but got PG in March 2011, found out that the baby died at 9 weeks on 4/21/11...prevented the first cycle after that, tried the next cycle - BFN, and we are on to the next cycle...trying TCM, acupuncture, herbs, fish oil, multivitamin, extra B-complex, royal jelly, vitex, wheat grass, eating specific foods, etc to get the sticky bean...if cant get it on our own, then back to the RE we go...

[outnumberedX3]

Name/Age: Angie, 31

DH/SO/BF: Mike, 35

Angels/Angelversaries: Angel #1-May 2005, Angel #2-May 2011

Tell us a little about your journey: DH and I started TTC in Jan 2005 and got pregnant in April. Unfortunately, I had a m/c in May. We got pregnant with our 5 year old, Christian 2 weeks after the m/c. We weren't sure if we wanted any more kids after we had him because I already had 2 boys from a p/r. Fast forward 5 years. We decided that we wanted to have 1 more together. We started TTC in March 2011 and found out that I was pregnant on Mothers Day. 4 days later I had a m/c. We jumped back on the TTC bandwagon right away. I hope that we get pregnant soon!!

[Mom.to.PinknBlue]

Name/Age: Amee, 22

DH/SO/BF: Ryan, 25

Angels/Angelversaries: Peanut 6/2011

Tell us a little about your journey: We were TTC for 7 months when we finally got pg with Harleigh. Had the roughest most complicated pregnancy ever. She is a happy and healthy 1 year old. In February this year we decided to NTNP, figured it would be less stressful then actually TTC. Had AF in February, then nothing until April. Then in June this month I passed the baby and the m/c was confirmed a few days later. I was/am devastated even though I had absolutely no idea I was pregnant. I figured it was just another wacky cycle. We are going to be NTNP again as soon as AF shows up.

[lindsey2000k]

Name/Age: Lindsey 29

DH/SO/BF: John 29

Angels/Angelversaries: starting to be to many to list here.

Tell us a little about your journey: I had a miscarriage then DD and now 3 more after her one of them being an ectopic.


Right now I am waiting on A/F to show so I can call for my HSG.

[Nia1978]

Me: 33
Him:32
Angels/Angelversaries: June 7/2011 at 8 weeks.

ell us a little about your journey: We tried for a year to get pregnant, finally conceived, and miscarried in June. Had a transvaginal ultrasound and SHG and husband had a SA prior to pregnancy, everything good except one fibroid that supposedly wouldn't interfere with getting pregnant or keeping pregnancy. We tried right after the D/C to get pregnant and am (I think) 8dpo in the 2ww with zero pregnancy symptoms.

[JesSsica]

Name/Age: Jessica (38)

DH/SO/BF: Pat (47)

Angels/Angelversaries: See my siggie...

Tell us a little about your journey: My dh and I got married in May of 2009. We both owned homes before we got married and decided to buy a foreclosed home together to be able to fix it up and start fresh once we got married. We had sold his home but not mine yet when I found out that I was pregnant in September of 2009. We weren't trying and we weren't even thinking about a baby since we still had two mortgages. It took us awhile to adjust to the idea of life with baby since we were still really undecided if that was a road we even wanted to go down together. We got excited though and we were both really excited at 12 weeks for my u/s so we took the kids with us... the baby only measured 10 weeks but otherwise looked so perfect on the u/s. Such a sad day and something I never would've predicted...

I initially decided no more babies but then once I was ovulating again I wanted to try. I got pregnant the next cycle and had a bad gut feeling right away. The lines on the tests weren't getting any darker and I just knew there was a problem. There was...

I gained a lot of weight (emotional) and started feeling really down on myself. I never would've dreamed that I'd have one let alone two m/c. I decided to lose the weight and try to start feeling better about things. Then one careless night after a bottle of wine with my dh there was pregnancy #3. I felt good about things but then after an 8 week u/s that showed a sac and no baby I started worrying. One week later we went back for another u/s and there was a baby with a beautiful h/b. I was so relieved! Then at 11 weeks and 1 day I went to bed with a weird stomachache. When I woke up I felt and heard two rubber band-like popping noises down in my belly and my water broke. I had no idea that your water would break so early on. It did.

My dh and I both had testing done and his testing was all perfectly normal. Mine on the other high was a little high for the Lupus anti-coagulant. My doctor told me to just take an aspirin a day if/when I get pregnant again and that should solve the problem. Gotta love his confidence...

We put everything on hold in the TTC department and decided to try to sell my house first. FINALLY in April of this year, after almost 2 years of being empty and almost a year after my last loss, my house sold and here we are!

[JessP]

Name/Age: Jessi 32

DH/SO/BF: Chris 33

Angels/Angelversaries: Feb 2009 and Feb 2010

Tell us a little about your journey: We were talking about having a third baby when we got pregnant in Nov 2008. We lost him at 15 weeks cause unknown. After a long break for medical reasons and emotional reasons we started trying again in Sep 2009. We got pregnant again in December 2009. We lost her at 12 weeks. After that we were done. Our family had been through two late losses and it was taking a toll. We have two beautiful children and decided we were done. Due to DH having a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) he couldn't be snipped. In Oct 2010 I started training for a triathlon. In January 2011 we got another very surprise BFP. We are now about to enter the third trimester on July 4th and we are so very happy. It was an emotional road but I am very happy that our rainbow baby is finally going to be with us.