Talking of omens… there were the magpies
Two sets of two, just before this FET
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Beaten but not bowed
Secondary infertility due to recurrent miscarriage, moved onto DE IVF, eggs donated by a younger friend. Beautiful twins born April 08, now pregnant again with a singleton
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Books
- Coming to term by Jon Cohen
- Creating Life Against The Odds
- Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation
- IVF – telling a child
- Making Miracles
- Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates
- Mummy, was your tummy big?
- Our Story by Nicola Baxter
- Sometimes It Takes Three to Make a Baby
- The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis
- The Very Special Ducklings: A Very Simple Story About Egg Donation
- X, Y and me books
Donor egg/embryo blogs
- …as good as it gets?
- A few good eggs
- A little pregnant
- And I wasted all that birth control
- Are we there yet?
- Are we there yet?
- Babies on ice
- Baby steps
- Baby wanted – apply within
- Backyard Musings
- Behind Schedule
- Borrowed eggs
- Broken Eggs
- Changing expectations
- Conflicted
- Creating motherhood
- DE struggle and success
- Egg Donor
- Egg scramble
- Eujenics
- Good Woman- Bad Eggs
- Happy to be
- Hope in the jar
- IF and the city
- Indyness
- Infertility Adventure
- Labor negotiations
- Lies My Mother Told Me…
- Life in the Soupbowl
- Little Beans 4 Me
- Little bit of something
- Mi Historia
- Midlife mommy
- Missed conceptions
- My eggy journey
- My POF Journey
- Onward and sideways
- Out, damned egg! Out I say!
- Over Hard
- Pamplemousse
- Plan z
- Right vs easy
- Surrogacy and Egg donation issues
- T.K.O. …more or less…
- The adventures of Jonny and Flo
- The junk box
- The maybe baby
- The Other Shoe
- Thoughts and Ramblings of an Egg Donor
- Three bags full
- Thwarted Repeatedly
- Trying for just one (and finally succeeding)
- White chocolate babydream
- Why not me
- Wife thereof
- Wishing it would get easier
- Year of the horse
My Kind Friend
Resources
- Acebabes
- Acupuncture and fertility
- Acupuncture and IVF – study
- Acupuncture boosts IVF success
- ART and TCM
- Aspirin and IVF
- Betabase
- Blog by fertility doc
- Expert advice – embryology and acupuncture
- Fertility Friends
- HCG calculator
- How to inject clexane
- Lost and found
- Pregnancy Calendar
- Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters – IF blogcentral!
- Taking your life off hold
- When to give up?
Resources - Donor Egg
- A site with lots of good info (nurture)
- Another blog on disclosure
- Blog about disclosure
- Blog about epigenetics
- DE treatment abroad – forum
- Disclosure – MaryEllen and Steve’s blog
- Donor Conception Network
- Egg Donation Directory
- Epigenetics
- Guardian article on donated egg family
- Infertility and the Emotional Aspects of Having a Child Through Donor Eggs
- Interesting post and discussion
- Mother Earth’s Flower Shop
- National Gamete Donation Trust
- On being open (Henry St blog)
- Secrecy and Openness
- Surrogacy and Egg donation issues
- Talking to children born via egg donation
- Tell and talk (DCN)
- Telling about DE
- Time to stop lying – G2
- Your gamete yourself
Resources - embryology
- 3 day vs 5 day transfers
- Blastocysts
- Blastocysts (2)
- Embryo images
- Facts about embryos
- Life’s greatest miracle
- Stages of development
Resources - miscarriage
- Dealing with others/advice for friends
- Finality
- First trimester ultrasound
- Hcg levels and ultrasound
- Ideas for ritual/saying goodbye
- In loving memory of Ben – youtube
- Ivillage
- Low Molecular Weight Heparin in pregnancy
- Miscarriage Tribute- Slipped Away (by Avril Lavigne)
- Miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss blog directory
- Poem (youtube)
- Poetic acceptance
- The Beatles ‘Love’ – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Ultrasound Evaluation of First Trimester Pregnancy Complications
- Ultrasound of early pregnancy
The blogs I read
- All for my baby
- Almamay
- Baby be mine – miscarriage memoirs
- Baby Chaos
- Babylust
- Charlotte’s World
- Coming to terms
- Eggs benedict arnold
- Elly Russell
- Healing Arts
- I just want a baby
- Inconceivable
- Inhospitable
- IVF after the drama
- Julia
- Knocked Up…Knocked Down
- Kool Aid Mom Wannabe
- Life Begins
- Max’s Mommy
- Mgage
- Moksha
- My life as a Lisa
- Opus 5
- Our IVF journey
- Our own creation
- Pickled eggs
- Precious little
- Rollercoaster of Recurrent Miscarriage
- Scarred Bellybutton
- Scrambled Eggs
- Sisyphus
- Spiraling into control
- Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters – IF blogcentral!
- Thalia’s fertility journey: hopefully more comedy than tragedy
- The great baby quest
- The journey
- This that and the mother thing
- Three times three
- Topcat
- Uterus x 2
- Waiting on two pink lines
- Welcome To The Dollhouse
- Whose daughter?
Beaten but not bowed 