sometimes theres nothing keeping me going but my involuntary respiratory system. I just keep breathing, and before I know it, a moment passes, and then another and another. Then something will strike me funny and I'll laugh, and remember that there can be moments when I'm not thinking about my infertility.

Definitely hope for me as well.....I know I will become a Mom one day and I cannot wait for the moment when I hold my child in my arms for the first time!

There isn't another option for me... I just got to keep moving along... I have good days and bad but I've made it through so far, so I'll just keep going...

like Dori says...Just keep swimming just keep swimming...

pretty much it. I took the summer off (tho I still tried naturally) from IF treatments after my miscarriage in the spring. I am back to the gym, feeling good and ready to move forward again.

somedays im hopeful, somedays im indifferent, and other days I'm sad.

all in all i tell myself to JUST KEEP SWIMMING!

i love the dori response "just keep swimming" :-)!

My husband (who is super supportive) and my faith keeps me going!
I have to believe that my day id coming soon:-)

I'm also working on being positive and not so sarcastic!! who wants a sarcastic mommy anyway:-)

I think hope is what keeps me going. I have prayed and prayed for God to take away this desire to have a child, and honestly I sometimes feel it would just be easier to be able to accept a childless life. But no matter how much I pray and beg, the desire to be a mother only grows. So I just know that in Gods time I will be a mother. It was what I was born to be.

Staying positive and prayer! Being positive and trying not to get too stressed about it has done good things for me. I view IF as a part of my daily routine and normal dr's appointment ect. If I keep myself in a calm frame of mind my body reacts better than I did when I stressed out. I think that sometimes my stress level has sabotaged me in some way so I just relax. When I am having a moment sometimes I just go lay on my bed alone in a Supt Baddha Konasana yoga pose (look it up). It is good for infertilty but I can still relax as I am not on the floor as I usually would be. I close my eye and just breath. I feel like in that stressful moment I am doing something to calm me and to open the flow in my pelvic area so I can obtain my goal of pregnancy. Best of luck to everyone!

Sheer stubborn, driven, and ultra competitive nature. The worst thing you can tell me is I cannot do something. I am relentless. I also tend to be more analytical so doing research and gaining knowledge has given me power to put one foot in front of the other.

Someone once asked a runner why he was a long distance runner. The man replied," because I am able to. Someday I will not have the ability to."

I guess I am TTC because I am able to now, but that will not always be the case. I do not want to look back in regret wishing I had done something before it is too late.

It really and truly is "hope" for me...hope that I will be a mom one day.

It's hard to say what keeps me going. I am also bipolar and have had to struggle everyday to keep my head up and try to not be resentful for the disease I was given. And as the days go by I realize that I am still here and am a very fortunate woman in many other ways.

I met my bf almost a year ago after both of us had failed marriages. It was truly a miracle that I met someone so wonderful that loves me with all my faults and loves my daughter like his own.

We are doing fertility treatments because he and his ex wife could not conceive and we have been trying for 5 months with no success. We are both getting older and I don't want to waste any time. Sorry that was totally off topic, lol!

Anyway, I just have faith in a higher order, not necessarily God, but something. And know that if I was given this gift of a good man than there is nothing standing in my way to keep the good luck rolling. Or is it luck? Who knows.

Staying positive is one of the hardest things that I do in a day, but with my bf always staying strong for me it makes it so much easier. And from what I've heard you ladies have amazing partners as well, so in that sense we are all very lucky!

great question...i have been thinking about this alot. this past weekend we were away with my husband's sister and her family. her kids are 5 and 3 and they were up at 6 in the morning and didn't stop all day. i was wondering is this what i want? we got up and went to the beach while the kids screamed about how they didn't want to go. i love kids i love hanging out with my siblings kids...but that's just it i just hang out with them and then i get to go home or i get to go out to dinner with friends without having to find a babysitter. i wonder about this all the time but then i realize that it's the way i protect myself from the disappointment i feel every month.

All we can ever do is our best with the information and resources available to us.

Having a logical, technical plan and making it fit our individual needs, capacity for pain and other emotional considerations as well as our budget.
And sticking to that plan while allowing it to be flexable to any new situation we enter into.

That's what's kept me going.
Even during this pregnancy, I'm now 18wks and we've had a hell of a ride on the pregnancy risks and testing options.

I honestly don't know if I can do another IVF.

But at the moment we're hoping to do one more after this pregnancy is over.
But, we'll have to see at the time, there's no way of knowing how anything will turn out.