Every year at Christmas, my well-intending mother goes to the local Home Depot and buys me a really big poinsetta--for my house. Every year, I take said poinsetta home, place it on the kitchen table, and have the best of intentions to water it, love it, etc.

Every year I get busy at work, get home late, have 50 gazillion holiday parties to attend, go out of town to visit family, etc.....and guess what happens to beautiful big poinsetta? Yep--it dies a slow death on my kitchen table....

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I never knew how much a miscarriage could take out of you. I'd always envisioned that I would be happy to at least know that we could get pregnant. How incredibly naive.

It turns out that I wasn't comforted by the knowledge that we could at least get pregnant because the miscarriage opened up a whole new can of worms and a whole new set of unexpected things to worry and fret over. Fun stuff.

I have been in a miscarriage-induced stupor for the last 3 months. Was it because...

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Ok--all the excitement I had a week ago about this TTC journey we have embarked upon is quickly waning. I have been doing OPK testing starting at CD10 and they have all been negative. Grrrr. However, on CD12, I had really intense left-sided pain that woke me up from sleep and continued on/off throughout the day on CD13. It's totally gone now. I wonder if it was me ovulating, and if I just started testing OPK's too late. I'm not sure if I've ever experienced ovulation pain before (b/c I am...

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Well--it's officially my first blog here at SC. I am really excited so far about this TTC business, but I am worried for myself that I will soon experience the heartache that others have felt.

My fam and DH's fam thinks we are waiting to have children. I like it this way because there is less pity about the PCOS and infertility. We are hoping that we will one day be able to surprise them with the announcement, and they will never know the struggle we have been through.
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