Sunbeam - 2 snow bubs and one nestling in sounds like a dream run so far.

Luna - Weird but a positive result is still positive. If you did the tests days apart and one was positive followed by a negative then I could understand your concern about the chemical pregnancy but you did these on the same day didn't you? One is likely just not as sensitive as the other. Test again tomorrow.

Crafty - Your symptoms sound promising. Hurry up 6 days so we can hear the good news.

THopes - Everyone like to see themselves as something special. It sounds as though your MIL likes to see herself as the oracle. The all knowing one who, when bad things occur, likes to be the one who says "I told them this would happen". As others have said, it's all about them and how they see themselves in life, nothing about reality or with any empathy for the people they are discussing. I know how hurtful it can be, my MIL was totally unsupportive and unexcited about one of my earlier pregnancies because another of her children was unable to pregnant. It was really hurtful at the time and the relationship have never recovered. I find it hard to accept her sympathy for my losses when she couldn't be happy when things were going well. I hope you can just put it behind you but I know it's hard to forgive these things when you are feeling so vulnerable.

Well, one of the saddest days of my life is approaching much sooner than I had hoped. We took our 14 year old dog to the vet this morning as she has been having trouble toileting and the vet took one look and said "I'm sorry, that looks like a cancerous tumour". He has her on antibiotics just in case it is only an abscess but you could see on his face he thinks it is a tumour. He won't recommend surgery for such an old dog and he said the other two choices were to make her comfortable or something I can't even bring myself to type. We have decided to take her to the beach house for the weekend as she loves it down there and if we have to do a difficult thing next week we will know we gave her a good last holiday.