Laney -- a tentative congratulations and an understanding for the fact that you're scared. After our loss we asked the doc if we really had to wait until after one cycle to start TTC again and she said that no, that wasn't actually necessary, and that docs usually said that just to prevent you from getting an infection those first couple weeks after a D&C. She said all the stuff about how you're more likely to hace a miscarriage if you get pregnant too soon after one has been proven false in studies. I know you're scared for lots of other reasons, too. I don't know what to say, other than that we're here for you.

Jo -- It sounds like this week is being rough on you. The emotions go so dramatically up and down. I hope your MIL is gentle with you, but depending on how easily you can talk to her, maybe just say from the beginning that you've been having a tough time this week? I may be biased saying this as I have a super wonderful relationship with my MIL, but even with other people I found it made things soooo much easier to sort of "disarm" everything in the beginning by saying I was having a low period after the miscarriage and that I hoped they understood. That usually helped me to actually be far less emotional for the rest of whatever it was.

Paula -- How are you liking your new job so far? Is it a brand-new job after finishing your degree? Sounds pretty exciting, even if you're pretty wiped out! But it's Friday (and I am so happy for that myself!). But hey, I just got to work and you guys are probably on your way home... not fair! Have fun on your trip to Byron (though I have no idea where that is)!

Sue -- hoping things will turn out just fine with your thyroid and metformin. At least our thyroid issued are pretty easy to regulate as long as they're testing regularly, and it sounds like your docs have that part in check. I've got my next ob appointment on Tuesday and they're going to check my levels again, as my TSH was low before and they might actually lower my dose depending on what they find this time.

Rozzie -- that doc wasn't the absolute most tactful, if I may say so. I'm actually very sick of people assuming that my miscarriage was in the 7th or 8th week or something and spewing out the same "people go on to have healthy babies after a miscarriage!" standard lines. When it's a doctor I just get angry that they clearly can't read. Glad to hear you're feeling some movement in there. I don't think I can yet, but I wasn't far enough along last time to have known for sure what it feels like. But that doppler is my new favorite thing! I make sure to only use it once a day and just a short minute or two, but last night we pretty easily found a spot where we heard both bubs' and my heart at the same time... very uplifting!

So Helen -- I warmly recommend the doppler when you get to 12 weeks! Okay, I've only had it for 2 days, but still! I had an appointment with my counselor yesterday and explained to her that I weighed the pros of having a reassuring tool at home against the cons of "What if I can't find the heartbeat?" and she begged me to make sure I could say "The baby has just moved out of range" or something if I couldn't find the heartbeat one day. But I dunno... knowledge is power, especially for us. I read up on whether or not it was safe, too, which is where I read that you shouldn't use it more than 10 minutes once a day. But just listening 30 seconds before I went to sleep was such an enormous lift to my mood...

Katie -- you still have a while left and we've already got all our eyes on you! Feel nagged yet?

I'm at work and finally having a break from the hectic pace of this week, but that's because there's yet another error in the program and I refuse to fix it this time. I'm supposed to just be the tester now, and the programmer should fix his own durn bugs! Waiting for him to get off his butt and have a look!