Morning Ladies,
Vicky—Sanson is so adorable. Aw, I just want to love him and squeeze him. He looks like he was attentively watching something. Could it have been the television? lol He looks like he’s going to be a big boy! He will be a lot of fun for the kids. You are so pretty!! You and DH are such a cute couple. Your kids are going to be gorgeous!!
Sassynlv—Are you feeling any better hon? Glad to hear that you are normal! But we knew that anyway. lol Good luck on your dental cleaning tomorrow. Can your friend give you a little laughing gas just for fun? Then again maybe you shouldn’t be mixing laughing gas and codeine. Dont get any ideas. lol
Patie—thanks for scaring off AF. She doesn’t know who she is messing with. I refuse to have a repeat of last cycle. I’m not standing for it! DH will be home very soon. I am feeling for you. I hate being away from my DH. Question, do you ever get to travel with him?
Meg—Is your little girl still making you feel nauseous? Good work about calling her a girl. Put that out there! Think, feel and act girl!
Angie—Good Luck with the follies. You have a good number. They are growing slowly but surely. They will be nice and fat in no time. Think ahead to the future. Visualize your EC.
Amy—Great Rant. Let me know when you are ready to come to DC.
Melissa—I’m so sorry about the insurance. I know it can be very frustration. Don’t give up hope. It will all work out. Have you decided if you are going to do IUI or IVF? If you can afford it, I would just skip to IVF. I think the consensus is IVF has greater chances of working. But have heard that IUI works for some people. 6 tries didn’t for me.

If..key work..
IF you can afford it, jump straight to the IVF.
Fi—I pray that the 2nd times a charm blessing rubs off on me! This is also my 2nd cycle. Your DH sounds a lot like mine. When I tell him my concerns he just gives me some positive feedback and lets me know, it will all work out. He doesn’t like to stress. His favorite words are..”it’s in God’s hands.” He has so much faith and strength for the both of us. He keeps me sane! I tend to think negative so I won’t be so disappointed. I beginning to realize that’s quite unhealthy. So here I am now trying to change 30 years of thinking. Not easy at all.

Congrats again! I pray that I am in your shoes! Thanks for the SLAP! I definitely needed it. It’s just so weird that I am only 6 days post transfer and I will be testing on 8 days post transfer. Is that normal? Should I change the date? Will anything show up on the blood test by then? I’m pretty sure it won’t on a HPT so that’s why I refuse to take one and get all depressed
IF it comes back negative....which I'm sure it wouldn't. But dont want to even know. lol

Oh yeah, your mate is an ass. Tell her to grow up. I’m confused. Does she know you are prego yet? If so, she is a real piece of work for acting this way when you have the greatest news ever that you are trying to enjoy! If she doesn’t, she is making it hard for you to tell her! Either way she is being really selfish. I think you should have a sit down with her. Communication is the key in every relationship. But do it when you are ready. I don’t want you to go crazy and start slapping her. lol
I’m doing well today. Still have the slight cramps (on and off) and nausea but I’m not giving any energy to it. BTW..this may be the last time I ever mention it. You see I watched this video last night called
The Secret. It’s all about the laws of attraction and like attracting like. They talk about putting out into the universe the things that you want and not giving energy to the things you don’t want. For example, if you keep saying I don’t want to be in debt or I have so much debt or I need to get out of debt, then you will be in debt. Because all your energy and focus and thinking is going to the debt. What you need to be thinking is, I want to be financially secure. It’s all about thoughts, words and actions. In the movie, they talk about three steps. 1)
Ask---for what you want. 2)
Believe—you will get what you want. 3)
Receive-- what it is that you ask for. It’s all about your thoughts, your feeling and your actions. Your thoughts control your feelings. Your feelings and thoughts control your actions. If you think negative or bad things; you will feel negative and bad. But if you think positive and happy thoughts, you will begin to feel positive and happy. When you feel this way, your feelings will bring about positive actions. It said whatever your mind focuses on the most; will come to you. For example, if I keep thinking about these cramps, I will continue to have them. So now when I feel the cramps I think about being pregnant and this is just a part of my pregnancy. It’s just the baby or babies implanting. They also talked about visualization. To visualize what you want. One of the people in the movie talked about creating a goal board or a goal box. It was a board of pictures of everything he wanted in life. It was pictures of a new car, a big house, children, and a woman. Everything he wanted. Over time he began to receive the things on his board. Now it doesn’t happen over night. It can happen in days, weeks, months or maybe even years. The key is not to give up. I know some of you are probably thinking…WTH?? That’s what I thought to. But then I thought to myself. What could it hurt? We all talk about PMA. This is just an extension of PMA. Think positive. Think of what you want. Ask for it. Believe you will get it. And then wait to receive it. Focus your thinking on what you want, not what you don’t want.
For example, when looking into insurance, I was trying to decide if I should get on DH’s insurance or have my own under my company. I researched and found that DH’s (who works for the government and you would think would have better insurance) did not cover IVF. His insurance was cheaper for me but it did not cover IVF. My insurance did. So I got on my insurance. I thought I was preparing for the future, which I did. But I also gave energy and thought to doing IVF and here I am…going thru IVF. When we were first married and looking for insurance, IVF wasn’t even mentioned to me by any doctors. We hadn’t even started trying. But I was thinking about IVF….and here I am going thru IVF. So I do sort of believe in it. The video wasn’t really about religion. It was more spiritual than anything. I mean, I do believe in God and when it comes to the part of asking, I asked God for my baby. I believe that God will give me a baby. And now I am waiting to receive my baby from God. But the Secret talks about asking the universe, believing the universe and receiving from the universe. Hey, in my opinion God made the Universe so I thought why not go above and beyond and go straight to him. lol I think most people believe in a higher power. Be that, God, Jesus, Jehovah, or whatever it is that you believe in or call him. There is something or someone higher than us. The Secret doesn’t really mention religion. They may have mentioned God once. They focused more on energy and the energy that you put out. The energy that your thoughts give out. The energy that you attract. But the whole point is that we are all made of energy. Our thoughts are made up of energy. We give energy to what it is that we want. When we were house hunting, we went to see our current house twice. We both fell in love with it. While looking at the house I said to the owners and to my husband that the house would be..”MY HOUSE!” DH was in shock that I said that in front of the people. He was embarrassed. He said to me, could you at least wait for them to move out before you said that. I told him hey, they are the ones selling it! But it will be my house. There were 30 contracts on the house. Ours was the one they took and now it is my house! I asked for it! I believed I would get it. I waited for it. But I also took the actions to receive it (nice down payment). You can’t just sit back and let things come to you. lol You have to make a conscious effort after you ask for it. All this happened with my house about 2 years ago. Long before I even heard of the secret. Now I also dont think The Secret is the end all to be all. Things are going to happen no matter what we do. I cant see anyone putting energy out there that they want to live forever and will....that's not realistic. What will be, will be.
They also spoke about gratitude. The authors said you have to appreciate what you currently have in your life in order to allow more to come into your life. You have to be thankful for that house, car, DH, family, job, health, etc…to allow more to come into your life. They said no matter what you have in your life don’t focus on the negativity surrounded by it. Focus on the positive and be grateful for it. For example if you are having trouble with your marriage. Focus on the good things about your spouse. When you focus on that, more good will come. Don’t focus on how small your house is and that you want another one. Focus on the fact that you have a roof over your head because many people don’t. The movie tells you to make a list of the things you are grateful for and then a list of the things you want. Not the things you don’t want. Don’t say, “I don’t want to be fat.” say, I would like to lose weight. The people in the movie are not priests, pastors, rabbi’s or any man or women of the cloth. They are authors, entrepreneurs, philosophers, scientists, psychologist, etc. So this is a movie for those that are religious and are not. It did not change my thinking. I’m still going to bible study tonight. lol I really enjoyed it. It helped with my PMA a great deal. After the movie I made my list of what I am grateful for and what I want. I also wrote down on some stickie pads the words: BFP!, PMA!, Baby Dust, I will give birth to a healthy baby!” I also cut out the word motherhood and stuck them all to my dresser mirror so I could see them everyday.
If anyone would like a copy of the secret, pm me and I can send you a copy. If you don’t, I understand. I don’t want to change any ones thinking or points of view. Just wanted to share some information that helped me a great deal…..and that’s what the sisterhood is about!
Love to all,
PP X-press