Hi Michelle,
I am so hoping that you get this message. I just was floored that our thread that had provided us each with so much support and friendship was taken from us when clearly we were all waiting for your news. I am really disappointed that it was done like that with no notice after it had been going for months.
I have no way of contacting you so I am really hoping that you get this message.
I am thinking of you Sweetie...
Hey Deb, glad you did this because I was going to as well.
I was shocked also but I was really upset about it too. I feel like my support system has been ripped from underneath me. Particularly at a time when we were obviously waiting for some much anticipated news.
That might be a bit melodramatic but that's the way I feel. I honestly don't think I would have gotten through the last few months without you girls.
It's all well and good to say we can post in the TTC with clomid or TTCAML thread but I just don't feel like I 'fit' there the way I did in our thread. The girls in TTCAML are lovely but I don't think many (if any, other than Michelle) are undergoing the difficulties of AC at the same time.
Do you think it's worth us asking them to unlock it???
Michelle, I hope you find us here, if not, I'll be checking in the TTCAML thread for your news. Thinking of your sweetie!
ETA: If any of you want to email me at any time, my home email address is in my 'biography' in my user profile.
Willow,
I feel precisely as you do. I think it was incredibly ordinary from a forum that supports women! A quick read would have told anyone that news was anxiously being awaited. I didn't "fit" in any of those forums either - that's why I started the Clomid for LPD thread.
Also a quick read would have shown how much we all have received from the support and friendship of each other.
Yes, I do think it's worth asking for it to be replaced. However, given the way it was taken away I don't have much faith.
I hope Michelle is okay and that we hear from her soon...
Morning girls. I found you!!!!! Not happy about the little thread we had being closed and not happy to post my current situation anywhere else. I tested again this morning with FMU and there is still a VERY feint line so I am still not happy to go wooo hoooo or boo hoo as yet. We will see if AF arrives this weekend or do another test on Saturday.
I am around to support you both anywhere, anytime so don't feel lost without our corner. We just need to find another hole to live in
Oh Wow so glad we found each other. As I said it was incredibly insensitive to shut us up at such a time (at all really!).
I thought it ordinary that you had to post out in the ether too.
Okay so we have a line again. This is good but I do hear you about too early to celebrate or commiserate! Could you try another brand tomorrow? I have heard women say that Crystal Clear is a goody.
Okay, can you come back in here tomorrow and let me know. Please know I am thinking of you so much and sending all my love and support...
please come over to the TTC with clomid/met thread. As Danni said, there's not a whole lot of us left in there as there has been a bit of a clean out with BFPs. I am on clomid because of LP issues, so I can relate.
It will be great to have a bit more conversation and support going on in there! I'm sure the other girls would be grateful for your input too!!
Thanks girls. We may just do that. I think when this all started there was a larger group in the clomid / met thread and ... you know how it is when you join a group that is already established (even if they are welcoming and very supportive women). It was just a quiet little corner where some of us who had experienced traumatic loss of a pregnancy and then the *challenges* of AC sat. It is weird but TTCAML has been fabulous for me and so have the girls in clomid / met. This little corner gave me access to someone who had experienced both.
And right now I am sitting in a very difficult place where the support of Deb and Willow (as well as Debbie, BW and a few other floaters) is vital to me making it through the next few days. I will either be a very happy person or a very sad one - and for both I will be on my own due to DH's work.
you will never be on your own here Michelle. We are all wonderful women who can cope with anything life throws at us because of the continuous and loving support from fellow members.
Michelle,
You said that so very well. I am having a little cry. What was so wonderful about the little corner that grew was that we were all dealing with clomid after the devastation of losing our babies. I have felt heavy all day that it has been taken from us.
Thankyou for the welcome to the other thread Danni and Hayseed - again, I just don't *fit* in there...
Michelle, I know how much the support is necessary, especially when you are in limbo at the moment. Goodness here I am 11 weeks and I found the support of my women friends in our thread my rock. LIke you said Michelle, no matter how beautiful and welcoming women on the other threads are, sometimes they have been there a long time and they share a lot of history, it was nice to be one of the same...
I cannot express my immense disappointment in the cavalier way it was taken from us. Anyway, dwelling isn't going to make it any better.
Just know Michelle, BW, Debbie, Willow, Chelle and Kirsty too that I have loved every minute of our chats together and I wouldn't be where I am without you all.
MIchelle, I will keep checking in here to hear your news and I am praying so very hard that the Universe has a positive in store for you.... :hugs:
Aww Deb - I miss our little section too. I just don't think anyone could see the special need we had at the time it was started. Maybe the mods will read this and understand we were a unique bunch that found support together due to our very unique circumstances. I don't want to force my AC journey on the girls in TTCAML, many of whom do not have difficulty getting pregnant, just staying pregnant (which is where my connection is). On the other hand I don't want to rub my ability to conceive in the face of those who are having difficulty doing so (even if I am currently in the same boat) because I KNOW I can get pregnant ... just not when I want to
Anyhoo ... I POAS again, and there is still a line (different brand) and it still has colour but it is still feint. So ........ I showed DH No point in me grinning like an idiot with blossoming hope that this could be it without including him on the rollercoaster journey. So he is cautious and said "It's feint" and I said "But can YOU see the line" and he said "Yes, you're not imagining it"
Woooo Hoooo!!! Someone else can see the line But I am still cautiously praying like a mad woman that this is it and there is a sticky little bubba in there who will grow and blossom and arrive screaming and healthy in another 9 months.
HE CAN SEE IT!!!!!! Bless his cotton socks!!!!!
You keep praying like a mad woman and I know Debbie and Willow and Chelle and Butterfly and Kirsty will all be doing the same. I have to leave early in the morning - I have to go to the Uni (she sighs....) I have been reading through the Masters of Midwifery course to be submitted (I am on the panel) - of course it's interesting I am just so so tired and not focused on working stuff at the moment. I am taking my neighbour and the kids (thus the neighbour!) and afterward we will go to the movies to see "The Wild"... The kidlets are excited! So, I am leaving the house at 8.30 - I will pop in before then to see if you have posted in this corner...
Lots and lots of love and hugs to you my friend....
Girls, I feel the same way. Thank you to Hayseed and Danni for welcoming us into the other threads, and I have no doubt I will post in there from time to time but us girls have formed a bond over the last few months and it just won't be the same - no offence, we know how lovely and supportive all BB girls are.
I'm at work right now but when I get home I might post a message to the mods telling them how we feel about what's happened and what our thread meant to us. It can't hurt I guess...
Michelle, I am keeping updated throughout the day (haha! it's like a MAJOR event in my life!!) and keeping my fingers crossed that the line will just get darker and darker in the next few days!! I'm so glad you told your DH, at least he can hold your hand IRL!!
As one of those women who is on clomid purely for AC, and never having technically lost a child (although having a false positive and believing I was pregnant for a day and a half was truly devestating, I can't imagine what it must be like for the rest of you... I am constantly amazed by your strength), I just want to say please don't avoid us because you know you can conceive. Yes, AC is damned hard (and I haven't even really got started yet!), but it helps us so much to hear positive stories of how helpful these drugs we have to take can be.
It's great to know that not only can this clomid stuff fix up my inability to ovulate consistently, but it can also fix my cracker of a LPD when I do. Please don't hide your wonderful stories of hope from us.
I really can understand why you are feeling the loss of your quiet little corner... It was a sheer joy to me to be able to watch you support each other, even though at times I did feel like a bit of an intruder. Not through any actions of yours, just because I couldn't truly share your experience of loss.
Me too Willow - just need to buy some more HPT's so I can monitor over the next few days and then become a true POAS addict DH is doing the typical boy thing and showing amazing restraint while I am sitting here with a smile on my face and the HPT sitting next to me so I can check that the line really does exist!!!
BBL!!
ETA - BW - you are never an intruder and we love having you around. But it is for that reason exactly that it is hard to move into an established group (even when the women are lovely). But please stay around. Your support is immensely valuable to me.
Last edited by Michelle71; October 5th, 2006 at 04:38 PM.
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No point in me grinning like an idiot with blossoming hope that this could be it without including him on the rollercoaster journey. So he is cautious and said "It's feint" and I said "But can YOU see the line" and he said "Yes, you're not imagining it"
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