I just wanted to post a message that might help someone else through their darkness.
My first baby, Katie was stillborn just over a year ago following a struggle to conceive and finally, ICSI. I thought the world would end when she died and I would never feel joy again. It felt like my heart was ...

If Lady Justice is really on form then you deserve the fastest, most painless labour ever...

Thank you for your words of comfort at a difficult time for me. Thanks also for being quite an inspiration - you deserve your fairy tale happy ending. I can more than understand why you won't feel truly ...

Hello fellow fertility warriors....
my friend knows someone who had 17 cycles of IVF and I think that has got to be the record unless YOU know different? Don't know how many of these cycles (if any) were abandoned or how many were FET v fresh - but I think you'll agree its a huge amount.

Happily to ...

Hi Pat
dealing with the NHS, doctors and receptionists makes my stress levels unbearable! Now I don't know a huge amount about the NHS - although I know I should as my DH works in it (I never pay much attention). What I do know however is that health authorities don't just disband and disappear ...

Hi Dagny
just popped by to see how you're getting on. Getting a negative must be so difficult and I think about how I would deal with it all the time. You and I have already been through so much that seems unthinkable - and we are still here, alive and breathing (although often not feeling very ...

Dagny
There's no reason to this- its just another piece of random bad luck and doesn't mean that it won't work again in the future. What it does mean is that you've now got licence to feel sorry for yourself, stuff chocolate, cry, drink wine, spend money - do what you want for a couple of days ...

Blimey girl... I just popped by to see how you were getting on and I find that you've been immersed in a whole soap opera of bizarre events. Sounds like you've had quite a time of it. I'm so pleased to hear that you've made it this far of the treatment process and now have two wonderful little ones ...

Just wanted to share this....
Firstly we were told that Katie died because of an abnormally short cord
Then Monday we were told that Katie died because of a clotting problem with my blood - the consultant did say at the time (to be fair) that this was the only abnormal result and therefore he was ...

Dagny
it is so beautiful and yet so tragic to see our angels here. In a bizarre way it comforts me that our babies are not alone out there.
Thank you
Anjela
xx

Dagny
I was so shocked to read about your friend's little girl. Nobody knows better than us what a huge devastation this will be. As someone who has lost their only child a part of me does think 'at least she still has her little boy' but this is pathetically uncomforting and the loss of any life at ...

Dagny
hope you don't mind me butting in here - just needed to say hello. I know your world seems so dark at the moment, and this sunshine outside doesn't help at all. It seems almost an insult that Mother Nature has the cheek to provide such good weather when she has been so mean to you and I, (and ...

Sounds like it was a really big funeral. Until losing Katie I had never really had to deal with grief and death before so having to organise her funeral was so difficult. (If fact, to be honest I think my darling husband took responsibility for most of it and I just remember sitting in my lounge one ...

Thanks for the advice all - Tracey, you are right that I am constantly thinking about the worse case scenario and how things might get even more horrid, but maybe things can get better as well?!

Caroline, I think I would probably take more time before concieving if I knew we could do it naturally ...

Hello, I'm new to this whole message board business but have been posting on the 'Babies loved and lost' bit recently as my beloved baby girl (from ICSI #1) was stillborn at 35 weeks in March.

Trying to recover from the devastation around me I am looking at starting ICSI #2 soon and am terrified ...

Hi Dagny
I do have a sort of faith - there has to be something bigger than the sum of our flesh and bones (conscience, soul, spirit, free will etc.) I guess its a sort of spiritualism. This is probably too deep for 9 in the morning - my brain is barely functioning at the best of times.

Katie's ...