Quick comment on comments

I just wanted to say a little bit about blog comments as it has been playing on my mind.


I am not very good at responding to comments directly but this is no reflection on how I feel about them, and particularly the wonderfully supportive comments I have received recently.  I am SO grateful for anyone that takes the time to even read my diatribes, let alone spend added minutes leaving a comment.  I know only too well how busy you all are.  My problem is simply a lack of time.  


I would like to read every post in my reader, comment on each one, write a post of my own every day, and respond to all comments left for me.  But I can't.  So, please don't take offence, and please, please don't stop leaving your comments x

Quick comment on comments

Goal #4 update

Hopefully if I put something related to goal #4 in the title of these kind of posts anyone sick of hearing about our pursuit of baby No 2 can pass on by without frustration or annoyance.  So, you have been warned...


A quick update then on where we are. I've been for three scans this week, and yesterday had a follicle measuring 18.8mm which means it's ripe and ready.  So at 1.30 this morning (I'm sooo tired)  I injected myself with something akin to lutenising hormone.  The clinic specifiy the time so that ovulation occurs at a precise time to coincide with when you are having the IUI procedure.  I am booked in for 11.30 tomorrow with hubbie required at 10am.  


I may be being overly optimistic but I have a really good feeling about this month.  I am feeling positive, fit and healthy, the follicle looks really good, and as for the timing, the last, and only, time we had an IUI treatment on day 15 of my cycle (which it will be tomorrow) was when Star was conceived.  And that was also on a Sunday...so it's all good !

  

Goal #4 update

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Do you believe in the power of positive thought or prayer ?

If you do, I am about to ask for your help, but first I will explain why.


As my regular readers will know The Daddy and I are currently embarking on our first post miscarriage attempt to get pregnant, using IUI.  For anyone not familiar with the story so far you can find it here and here.  When we originally began this journey, back in 2006, I bought a book called 'Stay Fertile Longer' by Mary Kittel which I would highly recommend to anyone planning to have a baby.  It is a mine of fantastic information, including this:-


Researchers at The Columbia University conducted a randomised double blind study involving 200 infertile couples undergoing IVF and/or ICSI at a Korean hospital.  All the women took the same medication, all had three eggs fertilised with their partners sperm, and all had the three embryos implanted.  What neither the patients, nor their doctors knew was that half of them (randomly selected) were also being prayed for by people on the other side of the world.  The volunteers were from the US, Australia and Canada and did not know the patients they were praying for.


The results were unbelievable.  The pregnancy rate for the control group was 26%, but the rate for the 'prayed for' group was almost double, at 50 %.  


Dr Michael R Mantell,  assistant clinical professor in the dept of psychiatry at the University of California and a clinical psychologist specialising in helping infertile couples said 'I'm impressed, but not at all surprised, by the results of the prayer study.  After treating infertile couples for more than 20 years, I've found that it's not unusual when the reason for not conceiving - or the solution - is on a more spiritual and psychological level than what hard science can explain'


If hard science can't explain it, I'm damn sure I can't but I do believe that there is ALOT that hard science can't explain that works.  And I'd like to give this a try, with your help.


Here's what you can do...

• Think positive thoughts for us, and/or
• Pray for us and/or
• Visualise our perfect, healthy newborn baby later this year and/or
• Whenever Geriatric Mummy pops up, in your blog comments, in your reader, in twitter over the coming days and months send us some good vibes

In addition I would like to ask you to retweet this post if you are on twitter or tell any open minded people you know that may be interested in helping.  The worst that can happen is that reading this post may help someone else trying to conceive, but maybe, just maybe it can help us.

Thank you so much for reading. 

Do you believe in the power of positive thought or prayer ?

Cheesed off - Rant alert

I am not  a happy bunny today.  Not sure why but think it has something to do with this:-

• Snow.  Fed up with not being able to go about my normal business. Fed up with my routine being disrupted and getting nothing done. Fed up with the enforced loss of momentum on new year goals. 

• Baby making.  Went for first follicle track this morning.  It went fine, but the process is now not clear and requires me to liaise between scanning people and clinic on an almost daily basis.  Not only is this aggravation that I could do without, it is also hassle due to the clinic being very poor at anything admin related.  I have thus far put off phoning them but have to do it today :(

• Star Teething.  I feel really guilty about even suggesting that this could be contributing to my fed upness.  He is cutting two molars and has dry, red cheeks, an endlessly runny nose, three 'very loose' nappies a day that he tries his best to put his hand in whilst I am trying to clear up the debris, and a very sore bum that makes him cry when I wipe it :(  I feel so sorry for the poor little mite.  He's been like this for about 3 days now and do you know, he hasn't got whingy, he hasn't gone off of his food, and he hasn't stopped sleeping 12 hrs a night.  He's such a brave little soldier bless him, but I hate to see him in any kind of discomfort and know that he must be suffering. In the meantime I am constantly running around wiping his nose, applying cream to his cheeks and battling through nappy changes.  Surely, if he can put up with it all without getting fed up, I can ?

I must go in a mo and phone the clinic, but in the meantime a request for advice.  If you are a regular reader you will know that one of my new year goals (which I haven't even finished posting and we are nearly in the middle of Jan - Bah) was to learn to sew.  Step one was to retrieve my sewing machine form the shed.  I have done this but I fear that by the time I buy the missing foot pedal and cables, and the elecricity cable, and get it serviced it would be cheaper to but a new, or reconditioned one.  

So, my question is what features should I look for ?  I don't want to spend alot of money but I do want one that will serve me well whilst learning and beyond ?  I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

In the meantime, you know what I've gotta do...

Cheesed off - Rant alert