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- I don't find myself on message boards often. Just during those lucid, up-in-the-air, uncertain moments of life. Like now. In our early thirties my husband and I started trying to have children. No luck for two years. When I was thirty-five we went...
- Hi,I just wanted to introduce myself. I haven't used DailyStrength in awhile. I was active in another forum here three years ago, when I was going through infertility treatment. And it was the best support site on the web! Now I am back to make some...
- I'm new to the group. I've been a vegetarian the past 20 years. I'm now 35. I've never had a problem with nutritional deficiencies. But I'm 31 week of pregnancy with my first child, and at the last midwife visit my blood results revealed a low...
- Hi everyone,I'm midway through week 21 with my first pregnancy and for more than a month I've been having trouble on and off with lower back pain. Basically, if I do any significant physical activity for more than 1 1/2 hours on a given day -- doing...
- Hi All,I have 7 unopened boxes of leftover bravelle (expiration date 1/09) that I'd like to sell for half price. I'd like to recoop some of my IVF expenses and also help someone to save money on their meds. My first IVF was successful (I'm into my...
- I'm 7 weeks pregnant, and I was thinking about using a midwife, to have a pregnancy experience that contrasted with the stress I went through with IVF. I was looking at midwifery websites and came across a number of articles/studies there, which...
- Hi everyone,I have what seems like a silly question. When a woman has a natural pregnancy, they usually calculate the number of weeks she is from her last menstruation (because the exact time of ovulation is unknown). So, by the time your next...
- hi gals,I did my IVF retrieval on Tuesday and we're going to do a 5 day transfer. My RE wrote down "showers" on my treatment form. I know that you can't take a bath right after the retrieval, or right after the transfer. They say there's an...
- hi guys,I'm having trouble making up my mind. I'm taking my trigger shot for my first IVF tonight. My RE has been doing ICSI for all patients unless they request that it not be done. And the only educational info he gives you on ICSI is a 4 sentence...
- Hi all,I'm go in for my first IVF retrieval, probably this Sunday or Monday. My RE now has a policy of using ICSI all the time, unless the patient requests that it not be used. I've seen stats that say that 50% of all IVFs are now being done with...
- Hi all,My RE has some general office assistants but no nurse, and now I'm in the stim med phase of my first IVF (went straight to IVF w/o IUI) and am starting to feel nervous. Wish the doc had had more time to sit down and tell me what I should and...
- hi all,I was doing some research online and ran across a recent (Oct 2007, U of Oklahoma) study that found that women who underwent acupuncture immediately before or after embryo transfer were a whopping 37% less likely to become pregnant than those...
- http://tinyurl.com/2m4j68The Boston GlobeBy Judy ForemanDecember 24, 2007Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have created a buzz with their new - and controversial - book, "The Fertility Diet."more stories like thisThe book doesn't...
- Hi all,A few months ago I wrote for advice because when we went to the first time to an ART clinic (after trying for 1 1/2 yrs) the doc suggested going directly to IVF since it was the most effective, and our insurance paid for it (which may not be...
- Hi everyone,I just joined this discussion group. We waited until last year to try to have kids -- I was going to grad school and we were moving around, trying to find secure jobs (get health insurance, and all that). For about 1 year and 4 mo....