[cocosmumNco]

i thought it would be nice to get this board moving cause i'm missing u all and when we month over we will be in a different board so would be nice to keep in touch here

if u have any questions for our gradutes pls ask them here

[KerrySF]

I have a question - where are you all?

Kez xx

[Pollyf]

Hi Kerry,

Some cruel old aunt of mine, glued my bum to this board, she won't let me move away, hopefully i'll have picked the glue off my butt by the end of the month.

pauline.xxx

[kallie74]

I never really posted to this TTC board before (because I never knew it was here), but thought I would share a success story.

We tried to conceive for four+ YEARS. It was an extremely depressing time for us. We were among the first to get married amongst our large group of friends, and yet then we watched seemingly every other couple have kids and "pass us by." It was very hard--especially when people say things like, "We conceived on the first try!" or "All Mike has to do is look at me and we seem to get pregant! Number 3 is on the way." Of course I was happy for my friends, but it was hard to hear how easy it was for some of them.

We tried to be very casual about our problem and not make it the focus of our lives. While I went through about every test possible for infertility, I was not very aggressive about taking the next test after ruling out the previous possibility. So it took about 18 months for me to get through all the tests. Finally my husband was tested. I'm sure as some of you can attest to, the guys do not particularly like having to give their samples, but hubby obliged. He was "borderline" the first time, so he actually had to give twice. The second time he was referred to a urologist, who eventually diagnosed him with basically vericose veins in his testicles -- I think the medical term is variocele.

After some thinking and getting some other things done in our lives, he had surgery to correct the probelm in March 2005 and we conceived in June. So we are expecting our first and are thrilled. Apparently the surgery did the trick.

Just wanted to share my story. My only intention is that our story can give hope to others out there--I know TTC can be a very hard, sad time and it can begin to feel like you're the only one out there going through it.

[sylph21]

Hello all!!! Sorry I haven't posted much, but I just really haven't had the time. I'm doing fine, and the doctor says the baby is doing well. I am 10 weeks 5 days today. I had my first appointment yesterday. Got to hear the heartbeat. 155 was the heartrate...doctor is thinking girl.

I really miss you all a bunch.

Hope to see lots of bfp's in the very near future!!!

Lotsa luck, love, and babydust!!!

Taylor

[net1kid]

I keep forgetting about this bit

Glad to here your story kallie74 i hope you have a great pg!

Hi Taylor *waves* will you be finding out what sex the baby is? Glad to hear baby is doing well, i hope you are aswell?

As for me i have 8 weeks left !!! OMG! It has gone by so fast.I am about ready if baby wants to come early. Will keep you all posted when i have any news.

I hope all of you won't be here when i come back anyway! (.. in a good way of course )

Take care,

Net
x

[Cali*Luvin]

I am here keep forgeting this was here, its still sinking in with my that iam pg still cant believe it its defnetly a christmas miracle after 17 months of tccing. I have my first meeting with my gyncoligist feb 1st, thinks are happening slowly.

[jandswood]

I was in the TTC 6+ months and graduated but didn't know this was here! I'm doing great and can't wait until this board fills up!!!

[Lilah]

I was here too and am now due in July. I go for my big u/s next Friday! I can't wait to see my baby! This still feels so unreal to me. But of course I am totally in love already. I got to hear my baby's heartbeat for the first time at 12 wks - it was about 160 bpm. So a lot of people speculate it is a girl. I did have a dream the other night though that I had TWO BOYS. Of course somehow they weren't twins (and were born three months apart). So go figure. Oh, and did I mention the older baby had a goatee? So, yes, a little bizarre and still not sure what to make of it.

Edited to not that my ultrasound showed a little girl! They said everything looked really good!

[bookwormmommy]

Hi all-I read these posts awhile ago and have been eagerly awaiting my turn! After 14 cycles of ttc and one consultation with an RE-we got pregnant the next month without any help! So excited! I'm not sure why it took so long because apparently we are both fine...So what I want to say is not to give up. I guess the one year=fertile and after one year=infertile isn't set in stone. I want to wish all of you trying luck and love and baby dust! And thanks to this board for being so helpful and supportive!

[*Bry*]

I never really posted to this TTC board before (because I never knew it was here), but thought I would share a success story.

We tried to conceive for four+ YEARS. It was an extremely depressing time for us. We were among the first to get married amongst our large group of friends, and yet then we watched seemingly every other couple have kids and "pass us by." It was very hard--especially when people say things like, "We conceived on the first try!" or "All Mike has to do is look at me and we seem to get pregant! Number 3 is on the way." Of course I was happy for my friends, but it was hard to hear how easy it was for some of them.

We tried to be very casual about our problem and not make it the focus of our lives. While I went through about every test possible for infertility, I was not very aggressive about taking the next test after ruling out the previous possibility. So it took about 18 months for me to get through all the tests. Finally my husband was tested. I'm sure as some of you can attest to, the guys do not particularly like having to give their samples, but hubby obliged. He was "borderline" the first time, so he actually had to give twice. The second time he was referred to a urologist, who eventually diagnosed him with basically vericose veins in his testicles -- I think the medical term is variocele.

After some thinking and getting some other things done in our lives, he had surgery to correct the probelm in March 2005 and we conceived in June. So we are expecting our first and are thrilled. Apparently the surgery did the trick.

Just wanted to share my story. My only intention is that our story can give hope to others out there--I know TTC can be a very hard, sad time and it can begin to feel like you're the only one out there going through it.[/b]

I liked reading your success story....I've been there...

I'd like to post a success story myself...After almost 7 years of trying to have a baby our daughter was born Dec. 29th 2005. (She was due Jan. 11th actually)

Like many of the Women in here I've been there..I really have. I've been up and I've been down and I've even given up but let me tell you that I so believe in dreams and I totally believe that God answers prayers. I was never a big religious person but I now do believe in many new things....

Before hubby and I married I went off my BC Pill. About a year or two later of not getting pregnant we started to wonder...I had already had a surgery to check to see what my problems were, and I had endometrioisis (which is a whole other story) Then my husband was tested and he hardly had any sperm. He went to his regular doctor who referred him to an Urlogist. The urlogist found that he had a prostate infection and it pretty much killed most of hubby's sperm. Then the urlogist suggested doing a small surgery on hubby to help with "why" he was got the infection. So that was done. We were told that without fertility drugs it may take up to two years or longer for the sperm to build back up. With fertility drugs it would not (or should not) take long..Hubby went and had testostrone shots. They built the spermies back up but not much. Meanwhile I was having period troubles. Endo was acting up. Through the years I ended up having 4 Laproscopies to remove Endometriosis scarrings. Hubby was getting repeat testings on his sperm and it still was not up to where it should be. Time seemed to be flying by. I had my ups and my downs. Every single month when my period started I cried, I was a wreck. Every time I thought I saw a sign of pregnancy I would be even more devstated when my period started days later. It got to the point that having hope each month and getting let down was so hard on me but I didn't know which would be harder? Losing my hope all together--which that meant losing my dreams of having a baby with my husband (I have a son from a previous marriage) OR being left down each month because I was hopeful. I've thrown things, slammed things, broken things, swore at people, didn't go to baby showers, couldn't look at babies, --you name it I've been there. Well...then hubby's urlogist put him on Clomid (yes guys can take it too but the FDA had not approved it yet for Men --at that time--not sure if they ever have approved it) And a month or so later (in 2003) we did get pregnant. I was so excited and so was hubby. It was great. We lost the baby at almost 12 weeks. I felt like God had played a cruel joke on me "Hey your finally pregnant --get happy" and then boom he took the baby from us...! I had what they call a "missed miscarriage" or a "missed abortion" and it was awful. I ended up having the d/C on July 3 --1 day before my birthday. We found out because I went in for an U/S and the baby had NO heartbeat. Anyway..............I went through a major depression after that. Again I had ups and down but mostly they were downs. I have to add here that after I lost the baby hubby went back to the urlogist to get a refill on the clomid and the Ins. company decided they weren't paying for it anymore because it was not approved for men..Well they paid for it the first time around, well they said that is because they thought my hubby was a woman --he has a common woman's name...(Kelly) Hubby then --a few months later lost his job and we had no medical insurance...so even if we got diff. fertility drugs we would not be able to afford them. Heck we couldn't even afford to keep going to the doctors anymore cuz of no medical insurance. I just had enough. I pretty much gave up on having another baby. When I was preg. with that baby my husband and son had started on our "middle bedroom" --started to tear down wallpaper, etc. Underneath it was an old pink with dollies on it. I had told dh to paint it soon cuz I could not stand looking at that pink room, I could see the room from our bedroom. About a year or longer went past and he never touched it. So one day I took some old white paint from the garage and just painted over everything in that room. I didn't care what it looked like, etc. It was my little thing I needed to do I guess. When I first started painting I cried, and cried. Now let's move to May of 2005--the beginning or so of May my 21 year old sister told me she was pregnant....Now she was not in the position to be pregnant again (long story--I won't get into) But I was so upset..I felt like I was just coming around again and being "me" and here she tells me she is pregnant. Of course in the situation she was in she was not happy at all. As many of you know...having someone tell U that they are pregnant and not happy about it really stabs you in the back when you have been desperately trying for a baby. It's heartbreaking. A week or so later..I was at work --sitting there thinking..."I haven't started my period." I counted over and over on the calendar at work...and I was a week late! I thought "There's no way I'm pregnant now and my sister is too." I got off work that day, stopped at the local drug store and got a preg. test. Went home and took it. It was positive. But the 1 line didn't seem to be very dark so I took another one about 2 hours later (there were two tests in the box!) And this line was as dark as can be! My sister and I ended up having our babies 1 week --exactly 1 week from each other (our due dates were 1 week apart!) I've heard it all "Don't try so hard" and blah blah blah --People ask me what hubby and I did differently this time around and how we got pregnant, well we didn't really do anything different and that's the honest to goodness truth. Hubby says we just relaxed one night and had fun...LOL But seriously I think that God gave us our little miracle when "he" wanted to and on his time. I still will never understand why we had to lose one to get Jaden but for whatever reason we did. Waiting so long just made everything more special to us about Jaden. For the first month after we brought her home we cried by just looking at her cuz we could not believe it. I was afraid thru my whole entire pregnancy and still was not believing any of it until just a few days before she was born. I kept waiting for that other shoe to drop. Or another cruel joke being played on me. So girls you will have your good days, you will have your bad days but try as hard as you can to never give up hope...always keep a little glimmer of hope within you. I've been there and if any of you ever need to talk further PM me anytime. I know what you're going thru because I went thru it close to 7 years. I think when 2005 hit and I still was not pregnant yet after 2 years from the M/C I really thought we just were not meant to have kids together. I hope this brings each of you a bit of hope. There's bits and pieces of my story I rushed thru but trust me it's been a long battle of ups and downs...
Love,