Any commercial with dogs…
No stories, @romanigypsyeyes, I am just so lucky that I could adopt from China when I was ready to be a mom. I am not a believer but I am hope, hope, hoping for good news for you and your Mr.
On the other hand, there is the new commercial for the echo/dot (or maybe Google?) where kids are just yelling “MOM” over and over - as they are spilling stuff, when they need toilet paper or laundry or food. No crying, just laughing as the mother ignores them.
Well no luck this cycle but onto the next 
Hopefully I don’t react to the meds the same way as last time.
Well, it didn’t work out for me but my therapist had fertility issues and did a few cycles of artificial insemination (with the hormone shots). She became pregnant at 39 and went on to have two more children without any fertility help. She had her last child at 43. My OB-GYN had her first child at 40 with IVF and a second at 42. So, it’s possible. Good luck!
So very sorry @romanigypsyeyes . Hope next month brings good news.
Was looking for something else, found this story, and thought of you. Good luck!
I’ve been very open with my infertility struggles and I can’t tell you how many women - even close friends - have reached out to me to thank me for being public because they felt they couldn’t tell anyone.
This is a hard enough process as it is. To have to go through it alone because of the taboo around it, it breaks my heart all over again.
The hardest thing this cycle was that I had a false positive. It seems that the super sensitive home test I took picked up just enough of the hcG from my ovidrel shot to turn the line a faint pink. The blood test confirmed that I wasn’t. The ups and downs are by far the hardest part of this. I can take either, but not the rollercoaster.
One more story similar to others: someone close to me had secondary infertility after the birth of her first child. She did the injectable hormones, yada yada, but it was agonizing and didn’t work, and they felt that IVF was a bridge too far. They decided to adopt, which took more than a year. They brought their adopted child home at the age of 6 months. 5 months later, she was spontaneously pregnant and had a healthy baby who is 20 months younger than the adopted child. The two younger children are now in middle school.
I don’t know the details but my good friend struggled with reproductive health issues since teenage years, and after basically giving up on having a child she unexpectedly got pregnant and now has two adult kids. I wish you best of luck!
Well, I haven’t told too many people in real life yet, but I am OK sharing on here as a thank you to everyone who shared their stories with me: I’m pregnant!
I’m only a few weeks along so it is very, very, VERY early. Too early to go public yet but it isn’t a false alarm this time. My tests turned negative after the the hcg shot and now the lines are positive and getting darker. That’s not happened before.
So hopefully this one is the lucky one that is healthy and goes to term. Positive thoughts welcomed
That’s wonderful - congrats !
Yay! Happy dance!
Yippee—sending you all the best vibes from here!
Congrats! Hoping these positive signs continue!
Congratulations!!! Sending you positive vibes and best wishes for an uneventful, routine, textbook pregnancy and a healthy baby!
I’ve been in your shoes and I am both an adoptive mom and a birth mom (I dislike both of those terms!)… I saw fertility specialists on both coasts David Sable in New York, and Ingrid Rodi in California. I took my temperature, shot up hormones, had eggs retrieved, cried, gained weight, lost pregnancies, cried some more and gained more weight. I’ve been there, done that.
When I was undergoing infertility treatments, I found an amazing community here
https://www.inciid.org Twenty years later, I am still friends (in real life) with several of the women I met through that incredibly, awesome community. Some of those women became pregnant and gave birth, others adopted, others became happily settled with their SO Regardless, you will find a kindred spirit there.
Please feel free to PM me anytime you want to chat, vent, cry or just have a little BTDT support.
PS - I was just approaching my mid 40s when I became a mother
Congratulations!
Absolutely thrilled for you!!! Wishing you smooth sailing.
Congratulations. Share your news. Be excited.