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Oh, kraken! So sorry to hear that. I'm in the same boat - totally understand. Hugs to you!

Kraken, so sorry. I was hoping for a BFP for you... It's been so long. :(

Hugs to both of you, kraken and Rebecca.

Thanx Rebecca and Toronto. I was hoping :-(

hello ladies

im 43 y/ young and trying for #6,
i just O'd 3 days ago, so im in the 2ww.

looking 4wrd to the wait. yay!

I'm so sorry, Kraken.

Wow, mommy8 - you must be super duper fertile. It took us 12 years to manage to get pregnant with our daughter - and that was through IVF. Good luck and can you please spread around some of that baby dust??

Sometimes, you just gotta laugh.

Last night, husband and I were having sexy times and got interrupted by our daughter - pretty much killed the mood. This morning, I had an almost positive OPK - first since losing the baby. Almost simultaneusly, my husband was tripped by the cat and fell down the stairs and messed up his shoulder and wrist. Then a few hours later, he slipped in the bubble solution my daughter had spilled on the dining room floor while I was grabbing the mop to clean it up and took out his ankle, knee and hip. So, of course, I got my positive OPK this evening!

To his credit, he manned up and we got some baby dancing in - but I think that's all I'm going to manage to get out of him this cycle. Hope there were some determined long-lived swimmers in there!

Ouch!!! That's quite a string of bad luck but I am happy to hear that he still managed to forget about his pain and to take one for the team.

Fingers crossed!!

Oh, no! Bless his heart! What a good guy, though, to still step up to the plate. Good luck!

Well, my appointment with the fertility specialist was not what I'd call encouraging. She took my history, but seemed hung up on the fact that I'm 40. Apparently, in July when I turned 40, every single egg I ever had just shriveled up and dropped dead, because they knew at the stroke of midnight I would be another decade older! LOL. She said she couldn't really help me, because although I have 2 MC's around 8 weeks, I have 2 around 15/16 weeks, and that's just a whole 'nother ball game! She said even if she did the blood work she proposed, and the ultrasound, I had only a 2% chance of finding out what was wrong. And with that 2% chance, I'd have even less than that chance to actually change what was wrong. Oh, and heaven forbid I actually get pregnant - although she doubted that would happen because "you do know it's harder to get pregnant after 40, right?"

And then, after all that, she actually SAID: "Don't get pregnant. I need to do the blood work first."

What?! Ok, I'm sorry, but she just basically told me I have a miniscule chance of finding out if there's anything "wrong with me" (or if it's one of those "sometimes these things just happen" deals, which have to be one of the most frustrating phrases in the world. I feel so lucky, being that person that "these things" keep happening to.), that she doubted I'd ever get pregnant again, and that she had no clue....yet I'm supposed to stop trying to get pregnant so she can run these tests?

I did not leave that office feeling confident in her ability, or even in her desire to help. Wow. Now I don't think I'll even go back for the blood work.

Sorry for the vent. I'm just so frustrated. And then my daughter asked me today why God couldn't give us twins to make up for the two we lost in this last year and a half. She said she would help me take care of them. I barely managed to keep from bawling. Then she wanted to know if God had a nursery in Heaven, and were the angels taking care of her little brothers? Sometimes life is just hard!

sounds like a really crappy experience. i say go and get a second opinion, are there other fertility clinics in your area?

bail now, get someone else's opinion!

sorry it was so bad...