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::Le Sigh::

First off I will say that my MIL and SIL are very supportive of my IF life. My SIL is my best friend and confidant. My SIL got married a couple weeks ago. My in laws family is all from Indiana so they had to fly down. There was a girl cousin that wasn't coming. In fact the whole cousins family wasn't coming, I was told it was because of a previously planned vacation. So fast forward to a couple hours ago where DH, me, mil, and SIL are all sitting down having dinner out. Someone mentions Jaime, the girl cousin, and DH looks at me and asks do you know why Jaime didn't come to the wedding? From the expression on everyone's face and the way they were looking at me. I said let me guess, she's pregnant? Bingo. Jaime is 23, been with her bf less than a year and of course on BCP. The reason she didn't come was because she has pretty bad m/s. she is already like 15w or so. Everyone usually keeps pregnancy news from me and I prefer it. It never fails that someone wants to tell me about someone else getting pregnant when I'm having a really bad IF day.    So at this point they begin talking about how the grandparents are pretty upset about it since she isn't married and other reasons. My MIL then says she is disappointed because she had the first grandchild and we were supposed to have the first great grandchild. I almost fell out of my chair. It's not like I'm not driving myself crazy, stressing my marriage, putting my body through hell and back and not to mention spending a small fortune. She tried to back track her words but it was to late. DH let her stumble a minute then just told her to leave it alone. DH and SIL both told her what she said sounded awful. Then I begin asking how much the out of town family knew about my issues since I got a comment on a fb post from a aunt two weeks ago saying she was rooting for me. The post was a picture of a dos Equis bottle at 2:00p saying it was 5'o clock somewhere. So unless she was rooting for me to get *** faced I had no idea what she was rooting for. Yep, she has spilled the beans to the whole family. Even guy cousins was asking DH questions while they were here for the wedding. I knew they were all looking at me strangely. She said its natural for them to ask when or why not since they thought we were going to start right after the wedding. But I guess a simple they are trying or I'm not sure wouldn't have sufficed. I know she means well but IF is hard enough without other people telling you that your situation is also a disappointment to them. Rant over.  

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  • I am sorry that you are having to deal with this. It sucks that your family all knows without you personally deciding to share it with them. Hopefully, they will be supportive of you or just keep their mouths shut. I really doubt that anyone is disappo

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    cycle 1: May 2012, clomid 50mg; cycle cancelled, thin lining, no response
    cycle 2: June 2012, femara 5mg; cycle cancelled, no response
    cycle 3: July 2012, femara 7.5mg; cycle cancelled (largest folli on Cd12 & cd 16: 11, lining 4)
    Repeat MRI July 25,2012- Cyst unchanged, likely old infarction.
    Aug. 8: met with RE, move to injectables if HSG and SA normal
    Aug. 23: HSG all clear; DH- perfect
    Switched to a new RE in early Sept. IVF here we come
    Genetic testing reveals: Fragile X- Intermediate risk/grey zone.
    IVF#1: ER 11/30: 14 retrieved, 10 mature, 7 fertilized. E2 prior to trigger 5200. Decision made to freeze 6 embryos and transfer later due to OHSS.
    IVF#1.2/FET #1: estrogen injects start 1/18, FET delayed to try to thicken lining. lining 5.4mm. FET- 2/18- transferred one 3AA expanded blast. BFP 5dp5dt. Beta #1- 2/27 9dp5dt- 102.27 beta #2 3/1: 147 :(, beta #3 3/4: 268 told to stop meds and let nature take its course. requested 4th beta (3/6); Beta hell for 2 months.

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  • ((hugs)) I've found that not even the best secret keeper can keep someone else's IF business to themselves. There is always someone they feel "needs to know". I'm not really sure why people need to know I can't get PG...especially when it's someone

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  • Oh Crystal!  I'm so sorry.  I can't imagine sitting there and hearing all of that.  I don't think I would have made it through the wedding.  I would probably have gotten in the car and left immediately.  You are so strong to be ab
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    Oh Crystal!  I'm so sorry.  I can't imagine sitting there and hearing all of that.  I don't th

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  • Without question the most annoying part of IF, to me, is when people make you feel like you not only are disappointing yourself with your continued IF but you're also disappointing them.

    Like, yes, I am already sad enough without being told that

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