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aw. totally know how you feel soready. i hope you will be joining her REAL soon. than you guys can go through pregnancy and motherhood together- that would be alot of fun!

Soready - totaly know how you feel...lol

AFM - Today I am on CD31 & 15dpo, i thought I was going to get AF last night (had the worst cramps) and I only spotted in the morning, but now I believe she will be in full force by 3 aclock!!! =( Don't know if I should do another cycle of clomid, maybe on a later day other the cd2-6?? But I still o'ed 2 days late taking it 2-6.

So we did get a BFP in here???

*extrememly long post alert* he he

Okay SoReady--I know what you mean! How about my idiot cousin came to my house and was talking about how he and his horrid wife want 10 kids. So the next sentence out of his mouth is that his wife is 6 weeks pregnant and her other child is only 9 months old.

NOTE: These people are the most self-righteous know-it-all chumps this side of anywhere. My whole family (even their own parents) find their company to be near unbearable because they are constantly belittling everyone around them for one thing or another. And outwardly joke about how his wife’s sisters have such infertility problems (one can’t have children and the other has had 7 miscarriages because of blood type mismatch). So needless to say I have kept my fertility issues secret from them. They got engaged after 2 weeks of knowing each other, married 2 months later, and pregnant 2 months after that. Not to say that this is not okay, everyone is different. Just pointing out that they don’t really know each other and then all the sudden they want 10 kids. Also they had to move in with her parents because they can’t afford even one child.

So back to the story—when tells me that she is pregnant again I had to contain myself so I didn’t shoot him the bird, while at the same time calling him a hillbilly and walking out of the room. This would have been a *slight* overreaction he he. And really I say fine, so your wife is a fertile myrtle, so you are going to be miserable and living in poverty for the rest of your lives because you are going to have 10 hungry mouths to feed on a military grunt’s salary and your wife doesn’t work, so you already spank your 9 month old because *and I quote* “he yells from his crib”. (Isn’t that what normal 9-month-olds do??) Good Luck with that—I’ll take my situation any day over that nightmare, fertility problems and all!

Can you tell I have some pent up hostility & frustrations lately?? ha ha.

So my final longwinded point is, no matter what it looks like from the outside, or how unfair it seems…we are all so blessed to have the wonderful lives that we have and we will be okay, even if it means that in the end some of us must adopt or have a surrogate birth. We will only be made stronger and more refined by this fire and trial we go through. And we do it together. Life is good.

Interesting Article: wouldn't let me paste the url so I am just pasting the entire article:

LONDON (Reuters) - Having sex every day improves the quality of men's sperm and is recommended for couples trying to conceive, according to new research.

Until now doctors have debated whether or not men should refrain from sex for a few days before attempting to conceive with their partner to improve the chance of pregnancy.

But a new study by Dr David Greening of Sydney IVF, an Australian center for infertility and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, suggests abstinence is not the right approach.

He studied 118 men with above-average sperm DNA damage and found the quality of their sperm increased significantly after they were told to ejaculate daily for seven days.

On average, their DNA fragmentation index -- a measure of sperm damage -- fell to 26 percent from 34 percent, Greening told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

Frequent sex does decrease semen volume but for most men this is not a problem.

"It seems safe to conclude that couples with relatively normal semen parameters should have sex daily for up to a week before the ovulation date," he said in a statement.

"In the context of assisted reproduction, this simple treatment may assist in improving sperm quality and ultimately achieving a pregnancy."

Greening said it was likely frequent ejaculation improved the quality of sperm by reducing the length of time they were exposed to potentially damaging molecules called reactive oxygen species in the testicular ducts.

(Reporting by Ben Hirschler, editing by Paul Casciato)

Soready.. i understand how you feel, it's a good thing she even told you. Three of my friends got pregnant this year, i heard about two from another friend and i just asked the 3rd one jokingly while talking to her on phone if she was preggo and she said she is heavy, i was stunned. Can you imagine, they are not even telling me and iam here praying for them as well as myself not knowing they are all preggo. Such is life, i definitely know our own time will come soon.

ldntown - I know what you mean. I dont want to be bitter but I cant help being jelious. I live overseas in a very small American community. We only have about 30 women here that are of child bearing age and 7 are prego and 5 have babies under the age of 1. There are 5 of us that will be ttc when our dh's come back from deployment. I feel bad because I want to be happy for these people and I have days that I am not. I think that it is because I see them everyday and I know that they were not all planned.

I guess that is life and it will happen for all of us one day.

Idntown~ THANKS for the laugh!! I read your post and was cracking up. If we can laugh even a little through all this infertility crap that a grea thing. You made my day.

SoReady~AF is slowly making her entrance! Little spotting today. So now starts the age old question "what is cylce day 1?" I think tomorrow will technically be the first day. So then I'll make my cd15 ultrasound appt.
Hang in there!!! rpats is right. Maybe this is it for both of you. Sometimes life doesn't turn out the way you thuoght it would, it turns out better!

Nikki995--ha ha I'm glad I could give you a chuckle. :) good times.

Nikki - I am glad to hear that she is finally decidimg to show her face. Tomorrow, please give her a message for me "I waiting!" lol Today is only the 2nd day off of provera so I am trying not to be too impatient! Maybe we can be cycle buddies!

at last nikki! niceee

ldntown- that was sooo funny. and you know what, it really is true... things are usually not what they seem. hey, maybe after your cuz has his 10 kids he too will get his own show on TV. lol
(how sad is it that jon & kate are separating!)

oh ladies! where you at today?? everyone's awfully quiet! whats going on?

i know you could hear a pin drop. nothing to update with me though. how are the rest of you lovely ladies doing?

km_hji- how are you doing?
havent heard from you in awhile

Idntown...you're hilarious! Loved the story and am happy that I'm not the only frustrated one!

ha ha ha i aim to please! glad we are all frustrated together!! heh

What's happening with your story Mia?

Hi everyone, how are you guys doing.

Nikki, i can see you are getting better, keep it up girl. You are not alone.

Idntown..i was almost cracking my bones when i read your story, that was funny. We need more of this funny stuff in here, we will atleast have something to laugh about.

How are all the ladies in the 2wws, hope we have more BFP this month.

Shasha and holly..hope you are fine.

How are all our pregnant ladies doing especially hope the newly pregg.


AFM, am on cd6 today,nothing much going on. Just waiting for my hospital appointment.