for taking the time to write to me... although this is truly a labor of love it's great hearing from you! Momma Kath If you would like to post a message here, just click here
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Thanks!
I just wanted to thank you -
Thanks again for all
your hard work!
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Thanks for the service you provide for us TTC'ers -
Love in Him,
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Dear Momma Kath, I e-mailed you yesterday afternoon regarding a faint pink line
I can't believe that I am finally pregnant after 12 months of trying. I thank you for this wonderful website. By following the suggestions of other women on the success board, I quickly became pregnant after discovering "tryingtoconceive.com" one and a half months ago. You are truly a blessing, and I will be passing along your website to several of my friends who are still trying for a little miracle. I will be posting my success story so that others can benefit! Thanks for all of the "eggy thoughts" and pregnancy dust!! Sincerely, Cheryl G
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It's my pleasure and honor to be added to your success album and home page. You are probably one of the sweetest and most postive people I've ever come across. I admire your perserverance in your situation and how you created an outlet for others in the same situation. Dana
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Dear Momma Kath
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Dear MommaKath!
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Dear Momma Kath, I just wanted to write and thank you for your
Apart from my husband, you are the first to know
Love and Blessings, Sheree |
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Momma Kath,
I was just browsing the gratitude notes
Thanks again for your site.
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Wow! How neat to get a letter from you! I've been reading your site for a few months now and I'm just to the point where many of my friends don't know how to respond anymore...I update them on my temps, etc. and they just don't know how to give me any feedback!! So I'm very thankful to have someplace to go where no one is telling me to "just relax and it will happen!!!" Thanks again for this site and your time. Julie
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Lisa F
How could I possibly say enough about this site.
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Momma Kath,
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Thank you for all the informatin you supply. Just last week I accidentally found out that I am pregnant. I am now 6 weeks along on my wedding anniversary of 2 years. what a present for my husband. he received his present a little early but was very excited. Our due date is 6/20/99. God Bless you and all that are part
Anastasia
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If it weren't for the wonderful TTC website I wouldn't have met a fellow TTCer who lives just a little over a mile away from me, same town. We discovered this in the chatroom and met in person today! She had an m/c in June @5weeks and I had one in July @5 weeks too. I made a new friend and found another to support and to get support from during this journey to conceive (and stay pg). Thanks Momma for this site! Love and fertility, Susan S
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Hi GMomma Kath,
{{{HUGS}}}
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Kath,
I have learned more than I could ever have learned from
I am crying as I write this, because, I have grown so
So much love,
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Momma Kath, Hi, I just want to thank you for having these hpt's
Your website has been a great help and
Valarie W
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I just wanted to let you know
A year after trying IVF and no drugs
It gives me insite to things I would of
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Subj: Thank you thank you
I went and got a blood test just hours after getting
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Hi!
Annie J. (It looks like I'll be due in late Feb.......)
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Everything (OPKs & HPTs) arrived.
Thank you so much. I love your site.
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lydia
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I love this site.
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Hi, Ms Kath!
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dear momma,
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Thank you so much
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Thank you for taking the time to write me.
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:07:54 EST
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Thanks Momma Kath!
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Momma Kath,
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Thanks for a great site.
I know it's hard work --
Rita
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It took us almost a year!
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I just want to tell you that your web-site has given me hope.
After I visited your site, tho,
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Hi: Just wanted to say I think you have an awesome site here. I have been ttc since October 1998. M/C twice in 1999 and have been actively trying again since March 2000 with no luck so far. Last month when my AF came I nearly had a complete breakdown and decided that I had enough and was ready to just quit. Then, I came across your website and after reading through all the info and so many of the success stories I have a new sense of hope about my situation. I will continue ttc and have added this site to my favorites. Maybe one of these days join in the chats. For now I have just been reading. Its really just a terrific place and has given me so much encouragement and information. Thanks, Kathy H. |
Hi Momma Kath:-), I am so glad that I found this site.
And all the members are so nice and interact w/each other.
I was using fertilityfriend.com before,
When you want something so much it is very hard
I am so glad about this site and keep up the good work!
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I was referred to your site by a friend! It is absolutely AWESOME! Never have I found so much info all in ONE place. I have been a member of so many online message boards, and PCOS support groups that I couldnt begin to tell you all the names of them... and in each one something just didnt seem right...either it wasnt for me, the focus wasn't to better health & TTC.. or I didnt trust the people. Even though I just joined your message board and little family on the net... I have looked around a bit for a while to see if it was for me... and I think I have found someplace that is just right! God Bless you for making an awesome connection on the WWW!!! I look forword to being involved and to lots of learning! Love & Many Prayers Jamiepoo |
Looks like I'm pg.!!!!!!! I want you to know I owe a large part of it to your site! If it hadn't been for you site i would have never bought TCOYF! I haven't O'ed in 6 months. This was my 2nd round of clomid and I thought I still hadn't o'ed. I had totally written the month off. BUT I did have EWCM on the day it turns out I o'ed and we dtd. That was the only day I had it and because I was so discouraged about not o'ing yet again, we didn't have many bd'ing nights. I didn't realize until almost 4 days after I o'ed that I had. (I had a stair step rise that wasn't real clear at first) Because of this site and that book, I actually DTD on the right day AND WE DID IT!!!!! It's truelly a miracle that after 9 months of trying and 6 of those being anovulatory that I am actually pg. and you were a part of that miracle!!!! I will be posting complete details of my success story tomorrow! LOVE
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I received the tests on Friday, and tested on Saturday..... I got a faint ++++++++!!!! I can't believe it!!!! Thank you so much. Your web site is awesome. I'm so glad that I found it, it helped me more than words can say. God Bless You, Lisa |
I read this story and it made me think of you, for all that you have done to bring all of us women together in the ttc journey. I hope you know how many lives you have touched and enrich everyday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! xoxo Michele Mothers Day: My Journey to My Children It was April and the Minister was new in town. I stopped by the house with the For Sale sign on the ground and knocked on the door with a casserole, loaf of bread and chocolate cake in hand. It was a quick hello and casual conversation that first meeting. As I stood on their back porch surrounded by unopened boxes and unfamiliar eyes staring at me, I told my story to our new Minister, his wife and their parents, about how my husband and I came to have our 2 year old twins. As I look back on it now, I don't know why I divulged this part of my life so openly, but I was later to learn that it served a purpose for more than the people in the room that Spring day. They politely listened to me ramble on; I, the proud mother, who still couldn't believe I had been so blessed. A son and a daughter came to complete my world. Really, the only way I could introduce myself was to share my newfound identity: Mom. They said their thank yous and I said good-bye. When Spring arrived, I took special pleasure in planning our families Mother's Day celebration. It was no longer a dreaded holiday for me and I anxiously awaited the impending fuss to be made around those of us with the title Mom, now that I, too, was a member of the club. And one sunny day he called. The Minister asked if I would be willing to say a prayer at church on Mother's Day. He and his wife did not have children, and I imagined that this was a day he did not feel qualified on which to speak. But after our recent introduction, he knew that I was well entrenched in the joys of motherhood. Without hesitation, I assured him that I would come prepared to church the following Sunday. The words came to the pages easily; the final version amounted to four minutes of spoken text. Had I overstepped my time limit? "There is no timeframe in which to pray" said the new Minister. And so I spoke these words, that Mother's Day Sunday, as I was compelled to bare my soul in His House and give thanks for my many blessings. I was first introduced to motherhood when I married Bob and his six-year-old daughter, Jane*. Having Jane in my life was an added bonus to finding the best guy in the world. She had her daddy's happy disposition and she gave me the opportunity to be a mom - something I had been told I might never be due to medical problems I had suffered with for many years. As we watched Jane grow, I got to practice being a mom with her every other weekend. I enjoyed putting her hair in curlers, painting her nails and making her Halloween costume every other year. I nursed her through the chickenpox and held her in my arms when she cried from a sore knee or a sad heart. I bought her party dresses for her school concerts and helped her and her girlfriend "cook" quiche for dinner one night. Bob and I took her skiing, skating and sledding and included her in our daily routine, rarely getting a babysitter who would only cheat us out of more time with her. Over the years, I had the privilege of watching what kind of dad my husband was and would be to our children. The love he has for his daughter and the loving relationship I watched between them made me want a child that much more. Then the weekends would end and Jane would go back to her mom for another long two weeks. And we would try again. You see, four months after I met Bob, I had one of four major surgeries that would lead us down the path of infertility treatments for the six and one half years following our marriage. The surgeries were painful, the side effects to the medications were very difficult and the emotional toll on our marriage was high. But we very much wanted to have children together. And eventually we did. But it was not giving birth to my children that made me a mom. It was the lessons I learned along the way. During our struggle to conceive, I became virtually incapable of seeing much else beside my desire to have a baby. I lost sight of my purpose in the world, my responsibility to my relationship with my husband and those around me. I let go of everything in my life that held promise because I wanted a baby. The biggest struggles were when Bob and I disagreed on whether to pursue another painful infertility treatment - I always wanted to - he did not. At the end of six and one half years of anguish, I decided it was time to face the fact that I was not going to have a baby. But to come to terms with ending our infertility treatments, I had to acknowledge the selfishness with which I had behaved. I realized that I could lose my husband in my pursuit to be a mom, and although I could feel the souls of my children close to mine, it was time to let go. Let go of the fear of never being a mom; let go of the pain of trying, and start forgiving myself for not being perfect. It was all over and it was now time to come to terms with the life I had left to live. First, I had to redefine what our family was going to be. Simply, family is the people we bring into our life to love and who love us in return. Biological, step, adopted - the prefix no longer mattered. Secondly, I had to determine my value as a woman. I had to learn to see myself as a person with the ability to nurture (not just a baby who might come from my body), but the people already in my life who needed me. Mothering is an attitude not a biological event. Finally, what was I to do with the rest of my life? It became crystal clear that life was about giving love, not getting what I wanted, no matter how noble I thought the pursuit. Soon after I shared these revelations with my husband, he returned to me with a request - he wanted us to undergo one more invitro fertilization. I was stunned. Yet it was at this moment exactly that I knew God was showing me how sacrificing my desires and giving love from the most sincere part of ones soul, comes right back to you - as my husband had to me. So, of course, I obliged. The results of that procedure are our son, Robert Joseph, and our daughter, Lauren Ann. Looking back on my life experience to this point, I am convinced that my children were up in heaven looking down at me all those years just waiting for me to figure out the most basic concepts of love, which had become clouded by my quest to have children. Ironically, these were the same characteristics of selflessness, patience and priority I would require in my role as a mom. But the story is bittersweet. We baptized the children and my stepdaughter, Jane, got up and left the church and we have not seen her since. Our hearts ache for her. As much love as we feel for Lauren Ann and Robert, they do not replace her. She is a teenage victim of divorce struggling with her own feelings about her place in the lives of the people who love her. We are left feeling that all the love we have given her to this point is not enough. Again another struggle. Only this time around I understand there is a purpose to this pain. Another venue for our love...a lesson to learn. So on this Mothers Day, my prayers are for... The women who are trying to have a baby and may or may not reach that goal
This journey I had taken to become a mom, was a road I thought I had traveled alone. As life unfolds before me and my understanding of the world comes into focus, it is clear to me now, there are no roads we walk alone; only choices that bring us closer to each other.
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I just stopped by TTC, feeling more than a bit nostalgic. When I was trying to conceive my son, this site was an absolute godsend. The wealth of information and the warm & welcome atmosphere on the boards helped immeasurably. I also remember your personal email to me when I was a clueless newbie asking a question that, no doubt, had been asked & answered dozens of times before. Thank you, again, for your dedication and effort.
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Dear MommKath,
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