Wow. This board has really exploded recently! It took me a while to read all the posts, which is awesome! Let me try to address them all...
Dr,
That picture of Colton is possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen. I LOVE the little tie. Every time I see pictures of him I'm like, "that's it... I'm going to the RE tomorrow and telling him to shoot me up with sperm." Then I come to my senses.
Duckie,
I was wondering where you'd been! Good to see you back here. Let us know when Ariea makes her grand entrance. We expect pictures as cute as Dr's
Izy,
I'm sorry about the BFN, especially after the BFP first. I'll be keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you next cycle.
Welcome to the newcomers and good luck to everyone TTC.
Re DP having the baby: This is something my ex-DP and I discussed a lot when we were thinking about TTC. She wanted to be pg at some point (don't know why - I get the feeling she would have hated being pg and suspect it's because she didn't think her parents would think of my children as hers), but I wanted to be pg so much more, plus there were other job-related issues, so we agreed I could go first. But I had no idea how many cycles she'd let me have before she'd be like, "okay, clearly this isn't working for you... my turn." It was stressful. It's hard enough when outsiders question why one of you carries the baby rather than the other, but it was even more difficult to have that debate within the relationship. (For those of you who weren't on this board then, we ended up breaking up right before starting to TTC which, in retrospect, was the best decision ever.)
I'm still plowing along in my job and life. I'm SO glad spring has finally arrived here in Chicago. Time flies... I just scrolled back through my posts on this board from a year ago - at that time my ex and I were in the final stages of picking sperm donors! Weird, huh?