Well our child was conceived without ovulation sticks. We've been open to pregnancy and creating a child since the very first time we had sex. It so happens that we achieved that after only a few months of marriage. Sil has been divorced and is on her second marriage. We are married and doing things the right way sil is just trying to prove a point.
@ladyabagail : So divorced people aren't doing it "the right way" either? What point is your SIL trying to prove? Please explain.
Do you seriously not give a care at all that the ignorant, vile & close-minded vitriol that you are spewing is hurtful to some that read it?
My kids were all conceived spontaneously through sex. That doesn't mean they are more special than the next kid over created through IVF etc.
Why do you think your way is the only way to make a family? I truly hope your SIL never hears this garbage. How hurtful.
You can have your fucked up opinions but there is just some stuff you keep to yourself.
I'm from July/August 2013 birth month board. Rest assured that you have permanently ruined your reputation on these boards as a whole. Go away & take your horrible beliefs with you.
Also, you are the furthest thing from a lady with tact, class & a heart that I've ever seen/heard/read. There are other names, but since I am choosing to be a better person than you I'm refraining from speaking them.
@ladyabagail. I also got married at 18 to my high school sweetheart and had a baby at 18. Your immaturity is showing. He was the love of my life, we were going to get through anything! Divorce is not an option! Guess what? As soon as we moved out of my mom's house and real life hit...real life is hard!! We didn't last 3 months after 4 years of dating and having to deal with the real world (you know, one that didn't involve making out in the stairwell during passing periods and sharing a locker).
I got pregnant again with baby #2 by baby daddy number two at 19. Had her at 20. He was also the love of my life and we were going to get married and everything was going to be grand! Then I found out he was a drug addicted alcoholic and I wasted years trying to hang on and make it last because it was the "right" thing. Until he became violent and I knew it was no longer worth it.
I am now 28 and pregnant with #3 by the third man (gasp!!) and he truly is a wonderful man. He takes care of me and my girls like they're his own. He has sacrificed so much for our mashed up family and, now, NOW! At 28 I am old enough and mature enough to deal with life's issues.
I tell you all of this because I am nowhere near the same person today as I was 10 years ago. And you won't be either.
In addition to all of this, I would LOVE to be an egg donor so that someone else can have a precious child to love. I can't, though. I am perfectly healthy, I have an over abundance of eggs, and I can't share them with anyone. I was born in Turkey when my dad was stationed there. An issue with the meat that was shipped to the troops stationed there prevents me from donating my eggs (as well as my much needed O- blood) to anyone. It breaks my heart to watch women try and fail to conceive month after month, year after year, and to know that I could literally take that pain away and the fucking government won't let me. You are so, so incredibly selfish to think a baby made in a Petri dish is any less important, loved, or real than your baby made in the heat of 18 year old passion. You would do well to ask the wizard of oz to supply you with a heart. You need it much, much more than the tin man.
I hope one day you can pull your head out of your ass and see the immaturity you spew. And I hope you are embarrassed and ashamed of yourself. You are still a little girl, being married and pregnant means nothing.
I hope that @ladyabagail 's family throws a HUGE baby shower for SIL & celebrates SIL like a queen. I think @ladyabagail is jealous of her SIL's experience, happiness & love.
Her posts stink of childish jealousy. It's so obvious & I think Jesus is shaking his head at her venomous spirit. Instead of being joyful that she's getting a blessing she is bitching about it.
@ladyabagail : you sound like a spiteful, hateful & miserable individual.
Whoa I just wasted a lot of free time on a Saturday catching up on this!
@ladyagabail, regardless of your immutable opinion, you are immature and ignorant. I feel sorry for your baby, if it will grow up in a home with such judgmental "traditional" beliefs. I feel especially sorry for your SIL, who had to deal with the pain of IF, and also having you look down on her goddamn miracle pregnancy/baby, because she wasn't lucky like you.
You are not special, nor are you right (quite the opposite, if there is any "right"). I was lucky too, I've conceived twice without any intervention, and this last time was literally a last ditch "I hate that I'm not pregnant this month and I want it not to be that way next month". I had sex with my H because it was the right time, in that my 2 yr old was almost guaranteed to wake up in the next 45 minutes, so we got down to business before that. I tried for 2 months to get my first little guy, and about 4 this time. Both times after we were marred (but following YEARS of premarital sex on oral contraceptives!!)
I am lucky, because I am fertile, and you are lucky. We are not special. Your pregnancy/baby is not any more important than your SIL's and it's evidence of your emotional immaturity (and general douchbaggery) that you can even think you are, or that you've done something "right".
I'm also still trying to figure out what point your SIL is "proving" by spending thousands of dollars and undergoing physical and emotional pain to conceive her little miracle, but I'm sure it's something obvious that my nontraditional brain just can't comprehend
I hope you're an AE/troll, although somehow I suspect not. Even if you are, saying things like you have is so despicable it makes me upset that people can even think the sorts of things like you posted. Ignorance is not bliss, it is vile.
Well our child was conceived without ovulation sticks. We've been open to pregnancy and creating a child since the very first time we had sex. It so happens that we achieved that after only a few months of marriage. Sil has been divorced and is on her second marriage. We are married and doing things the right way sil is just trying to prove a point.
I can't not respond to this. Lurking from March 14. So not only have you stated that my baby, conceived via IUI, is not a baby out of love but now your also saying that if someone is on a 2nd marriage, like myself, it's not "right" in your mind to even try to have a child and the person is proving a point? God forbid your lil' 18 year old mind ever have to go through heartache and loss and actually have to try hard for something. Simply stated, you are a snot nosed lil' fucking brat who is definitely not old enough to raise a well rounded child to have good morals and values. I hope you never have to rely on said SIL that is obviously more older and mature than you for babysitting when you learn what partying and bar life is like in a couple of years. Oh but right, you have life all figured out.
Taking sperm from a cup and mixing it with an egg by a lab is not at all the same as a married couple creating a child by making love. Children will come into a marriage when the time is right, you shouldn't bring in stuff that is not supposed to happen like ivf. That is just how I feel nothing anyone says will change that. Children should be created in a marriage naturally .
Holy mother of Christ....I can't even process the fact that you said that.
So, I'm a lesbian right (See siggy for reassurance). Are you saying that all 3 of my children including #4 on the way are less important and not meant to be here because my spouse and I couldn't naturally conceive? Cuz...DW didn't grow a wanker over night and shoot those puppies inside of me all by her lonesome.
You above all have left me truly flabbergasted. Truly truly flabbergasted.
ETA: ugh, just fuck you and your whole life.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say OP probably think's y'all are going to hell or something. But congrats on baby #4!! I'm only on 1, and I can't imagine losing that much sleep ;-)
Are you freaking kidding me? My miracle baby is due in March...after over 3 years of ttc we had to use IVF. It wasn't our first, second, or third option. It was expensive, requires tons of research, and is still proves to be an emotional roller-coaster. I would have loved to conceived like you but that just wasn't going to happen for me. There are crocodile tears rolling down my face right now as I respond to you. You need to open your eyes and support your SIL. She has earned it. She has been poked, prodded, medicated, temped, depressed, anxious, to name a few, and is probably still dealing with most of that. All because she loves her unborn baby beyond belief. It doesn't mean she or her baby are any better than you...but their journey to get there hasn't been as easy as yours and she deserves to show off and be the center of attention every now and then. She has probably been through hell and back during her IVF process. All you did was lay down. Grow up lady.
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Sorry, I just have to say: I grew up knowing that my parents did fertility treatments to conceive me, and I knew without a doubt that I was wanted and loved by two people who did whatever it took to have a baby.
I guess I always thought fertility babies were the miracle ones....
Well our child was conceived without ovulation sticks. We've been open to pregnancy and creating a child since the very first time we had sex. It so happens that we achieved that after only a few months of marriage. Sil has been divorced and is on her second marriage. We are married and doing things the right way sil is just trying to prove a point.
Seriously
So now you're saying that you're better than anyone using ovulation sticks? Now you've attacked an even larger population here.
Guess what, I dated my husband for 5 years before we were married (boom, one up on ya there), we were COLLEGE sweethearts (very much in love), and went through a lot together (as PP said more than making out in high school stairwells). We conceived our daughter within the first four months of our marriage. Well guess what we are ready for another child and are having to go through more trouble this time. Work, thought, emotion by using ovulation sticks. But I assure you still with plenty of love.
When you have gone through the heartache of loosing a child or a pregnancy or try month and month without conceiving maybe you would feel differently. Think about where these other women have been and the road they have been down to get to IVF or other means to become a mother. Congratulations to your SIL.
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You know, I was really uncomfortable reading Abagail's posts because I'm in a really similar situation. My husband and I are newlyweds, and we completely lucked into our conception. I will readily admit that, and I am so thankful. My SIL has been TTC for years. She announced that she was expecting just after we got our BFP ( we hadn't announced yet). She needed a lot of help from "science" to get pregnant.
That's where my similarities to Abagail end. I am thrilled for my SIL. It was so hard for me to watch her going through that pain. And to be honest, I'm almost as excited for her "science baby" as I am for my "love baby."
Having put a little bit of my backstory out there, I think all (or most) of us can agree that dear Abagail is cray cray, and she certainly voiced a really unpopular opinion in a really childish, offensive way. And we all have the right to react to her craziness. I know that she isn't going to change her mind or her outlook by reading all of the replies to her post, but maybe she'll re-think how she presents herself and her opinions in the future.
ladyabagail said: Ok I just read all the replies. For whoever said something about me spreading my legs I would like for you to know my HUSBAND and I created our child thru making love. I would not use ivf or any other stuff like that to conceive. A true miracle is a child created thru a husband and wifes passion for each other not in a lab. I'm sorry but I do not feel its right.
I can't wait for the day that child protective services shows up at your house because w comments like that you are way to dumb and irresponsible to care for your love made baby. My child is the most beautiful creature that I have ever been blessed to have in my presence and for you to insinuate that he is sub par to yours because of how he was made makes me sad that our children will be sharing the same planet. Also I can guarantee that my hard work and education will be going to pay for your child's care, because I highly doubt your career or future is very bright. So there you go, you want to get personal chick, lets go!!! You have pissed off this momma bear.
Well since every active member on the Bump website has said something about this, I feel obligated. It takes a special kind of person to offend that many people, holy crap! I think someone has to do some serious soul searching, This is so unbelievably offensive and I have not have IVF so I can only imagine how those ladies feel!
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Just to clear things up I do not and will not receive any form of public assistance! So those of you going on about your taxes or whatever supporting us .innnkkk wrong, try again! My husband works and we live in one of my family s very nice rental homes which my family owns! My family is awesome and our child will not be without anything! !! Have a great daaaaayyyyyy!
Just to clear things up I do not and will not receive any form of public assistance! So those of you going on about your taxes or whatever supporting us .innnkkk wrong, try again! My husband works and we live in one of my family s very nice rental homes which my family owns! My family is awesome and our child will not be without anything! !! Have a great daaaaayyyyyy!
@ladyabagail Oh good, you are still here! I wanted to invite you to our July '14 IVF Mommy check-in on Wednesdays. I think you and I have some things to talk about. Don't worry, I'll make sure they go easy on you.
FWIW- I've noticed that my IVF daughter, who is almost three, actually spells better than you. True story, I shit you not.
My bills are none of your business! As long as you aren't paying them it doesn't matter who is be that my husband or my parents. It is none of your concern. Just make sure you aren't behind on your bills bills
My bills are none of your business! As long as you aren't paying them it doesn't matter who is be that my husband or my parents. It is none of your concern. Just make sure you aren't behind on your bills bills
Aren't you tired of the entire Bump hating you? Give it a rest. You claim to be such a grown up show some maturity and grace and bow out.
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My bills are none of your business! As long as you aren't paying them it doesn't matter who is be that my husband or my parents. It is none of your concern. Just make sure you aren't behind on your bills bills
Translation: yes, my mommy and daddy pay for everything, but I can't give up the fight for attention now!
My bills are none of your business! As long as you aren't paying them it doesn't matter who is be that my husband or my parents. It is none of your concern. Just make sure you aren't behind on your bills bills
This is all I can think of:
Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Do you pay my automo' bills? If you did then maybe we could chill I don't think you do So, you and me are through Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Do you pay my automo' bills? If you did then maybe we could chill I don't think you do So, you and me are through
my dad always said that if you can't be 100% financially independent of your family, you're not ready to get married. Unfortunately my brother didn't heed that and he's going thru a divorce. At age 28 he's never lived outside of home despite being married for 4 years!
ladyabagail may not be living with her folks but its obvious they are still relying on them in some ways. That can only hurt a marriage
Wow. Ladyabagail, I honestly feel bad for your child. If you can be so cruel to your SIL who has obviously struggled to get pregnant, how are you going to react when your baby steals your spotlight? Your self-centered sense of entitlement is shocking.
Ladyabatwat, I don't think this site is a good place for you. Maybe you should try www.imanentitledbitchlivingoffofmommyanddaddybutiknowitall.com. you might be the only member but hey, you're 18 and know it all why would you need advice from anyone else?
On another note, I miss you girls of A14. I know I was here a short time but you made my feelers feel.
Just to clear things up I do not and will not receive any form of public assistance! So those of you going on about your taxes or whatever supporting us .innnkkk wrong, try again! My husband works and we live in one of my family s very nice rental homes which my family owns! My family is awesome and our child will not be without anything! !! Have a great daaaaayyyyyy!
Also June 14 here...
I hope you listen to what has already been said by people wiser than you who have experienced different things in their lives than you. Some of the things you have said are not only offensive and wrong, but also reveal of a serious lack of perspective taking skills and empathy (which are essential to raising a healthy and well-adjusted child...not to mention making people not hate you). If you can't stop and think how what you do or say will impact others, or if you can't suppose what another person might be thinking or going through, those are serious life skill deficits and maybe you should consider seeking some assistance with that.
@ladyabagail. Are you FUCKING kidding me?!?! You live off your parents. You are not ready for the real world!! You need to grow up. Again, I was a teen mom also. I lived off my parents for a few years and guess what? Eventually I was told I needed to make my own way. With no college degree the best I could do was work a dead end retail job. I collected food stamps and government insurance. It took a LONG time (again, I had my oldest 10 years ago) and it was not easy but I finally worked my way up to a position with a company where I would be "ok" if I had to do it on my own. I am fortunate that my wonderful boyfriend actually did something with his life and he can provide for us all of the "extras" but I can guarantee you I would not be in the financial position I am without him, even 10 years later. You do not everything. You are quite literally playing house. Yeah, it might seem awesome and easy, but that's because you are not responsible for yourselves. You don't have to pay rent, electricity, gas, water, garbage...these are things you do as an ADULT. Again, you are still a child. I've been where you are, I know what it will take to move on. You are not ready. I hope you figure out soon that you're not as grown up as you think you are.
@Ladyabagail...you're a selfish fucking heartless bitch. EVERY baby is a miracle. IF is extremely hard to go through and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, not even you.
@ladyabagail posted on the prenatals thread that she'd like us to stop talking about her hatred of "artifical pregnancy" so this can "blow over". I am not making this up.
I wasn't on the board much yesterday, so I saw this today. She is an awlful person and I just can't understand how she would even think that would be ok to say. Some ppl are just that dumb.
I just can't get excited about artificial or ivf pregnancies. My sil did ivf and announced her pregnancy right after we announced. Now the whole family is acting like this is such a blessed miracle. Nope, not a miracle just an act of science. We created our baby thru love and noone seems to care now that sil has her science baby on the way.
You can go fuck yourself with a hot poker. Do you think because you spread your legs and made a baby that it's not fucking science? It's all fucking science. You are an abominable twat and I hope you get no attention for anything in life ever. Fuck you. Mermz out.
I hope your baby is happy and healthy. Congratulations on your wonderful pregnancy and God bless you. All children are God's miracles.
OY! I have been lurking from May 14 and wasnt going to post, but this little girl got under my skin way too much to keep my mouth shut.
@Ladyabagail, I, too, married young (I was 20) and thought I was "grown up" and had my shit together. Again, like you, I also happened to meet my husband while I was in high school (we met online!) and we lived on our own without any parental help as soon as I graduated. We both worked; he had a great job, I was going to school, and I even got pregnant two months after our wedding which ended in an early m/c. Not even two months later, my DH's amazing well paying job laid off 500+ workers including him, and I was forced to quit my job and school to move over an hour away to an area that we could afford on a new, very tight budget. (I say this only as a reminder that situations can change and relying solely on your husband for support in this age is naive and completely impractical, but then again, you already admitted mommy and daddy haven't cut the cord, so I partially see where your enabling stems from)
Between the recession, my husband's unemployment, and my m/c, I sunk into a deep depression. I did not understand what love was until we had to struggle and actually fight to make our marriage work. When things got better, we began trying for a family again and I began a very hard struggle with IF. You have no idea, nor can you talk about someone who has struggled, unless you have been there yourself.
I pray that you never have to go through years of IF wondering "why you?"; if there is something wrong with you; if your DH will still love you if you cannot have a child; why God allows some crack whore or some child molester to have children, but not you; crying as all your friends get pregnant and start families and wondering when it will be your turn; taking test, after test, after test, for years only to have that negative cut you deeper than any knife could pierce, and praying and begging God that the next time will be the one, that one day you will FINALLY get to hold your own child and love this tiny little miracle that you have waited for.
I may not have conceived with IVF, but I understand the sacrifices that those couples have made to have just a small shot at a family of their own. You should feel blessed to be able to conceive so quickly and naturally, and you should not take that for granted, but what kind of person has so much jealousy and spite in their hearts that they cannot have one ounce of empathy for someone who has struggled for the same thing?
Your statement about being grown up is about as factual as your statement that your SIL is having this baby to show you up. To be grown up means to look outside one's self and to realize that there is more to life than what is smack dab in front of your nose.
And you are far to early along in your pregnancy to have everything set in stone. I know it may be before your time, but have you ever heard the expression "Dont count your chickens before they hatch"? Your pregnancy is not guaranteed, just like anyone else's here, and while I pray that you do not ever have to go through a loss, until that child is safely placed in your arms, you can never fully know or anticipate what can potentially go wrong.
And what happens if and when your child marries and possibly has issues conceiving with their spouse? would you love your grandchild less because they were an IVF baby? would you love your own child less for making the decision to go through with treatments?
This is what I mean about being grown up. It's not about age or marital status, it's about the foresight to think through all possibilities before making judgments about others' choices and lives. If you had any kind of foresight or empathy, you would be thrilled for your SIL! Heck, I dont even know her, and I am thrilled for her!
All you have succeeded in doing over the past few days is making yourself miserable with jealousy, alienating yourself from 99% of TB with your juvenile attempts at self promotion, and being the posterchild for all that is wrong with this "ME" generation that is starting to crawl from the cesspools of adolescence into the real world.
Taking sperm from a cup and mixing it with an egg by a lab is not at all the same as a married couple creating a child by making love. Children will come into a marriage when the time is right, you shouldn't bring in stuff that is not supposed to happen like ivf. That is just how I feel nothing anyone says will change that. Children should be created in a marriage naturally .
Taking sperm from a cupdaddy's money and mixing it with an egg by a labyour family-owned rental house is not at all the same as a married couple creating a child by making love your husband providing for your family.
ChildrenAdults will come into ato marriage when the time is right, you shouldn't bring in stuff that is not supposed to happen like ivf living off your parents' assistance.
Your logic is all screwed up. How do you see where it is "right" to be married while having so much help from your parents, but it is not "right" to be pregnant by having help from a doctor?
I had thought of this before when reading this garbage, but decided to let it rest since everyone was giving you enough flack for this already. However, you just keep coming back spewing more garbage such as "never will I use government assistance" and yada yada yada....
Tell me, how is this different! Just a few scenarios that you should think about:
You (and your husband) cannot literally build a home without some sort of assistance. Therefore, according to your logic, you should not have a home.
You (and your husband) cannot build a car without some sort of assistance. Therefore, according to your logic, you should not have a car.
You (and your husband) cannot financially support your family without some sort of assistance. Therefore, according to your logic, you should not be married or be having a baby.
You pretty much said that yourself, my dear....
My "high-school sweetheart" and I planned to get married young. He fortunately had a great job at the time of our engagement. Unfortunately, he lost said job just a few months before getting married due to no fault of his own. However, he could not draw unemployment and his "record" was screwed up because of all of this that happened. What did I do? I postponed the wedding because we couldn't support ourselves. And just an FYI (in case you're wondering what could have happened that wasn't his fault to get him fired), he was later re-hired by the same company once the screwed up boss was found out and fired by the owners. My point is, though, that I was mature enough to realize that marriage was not a good step for us at that point. We were still TOGETHER so there was no rush!
I don't understand how you think this is right or even fair to your parents. Do you want to pay for your child's bills once he/she is "grown" and has a spouse that should be supporting them?? At this rate, you sure enough won't be able to.
Keep on arguing your point, dear. Your comments just keep getting better and better. . . .
You know, @ladyabagail, I can't let your comment about "doing everything right" go either.
I married my high school sweetheart as well, but we waited until we had both finished college to get married; my husband actually had his Masters and was in his first year towards his PhD. We waited to have kids until he finished that and had a job so that we could properly provide for a child.
We got pregnant with our first in November 2011. It took awhile; not forever and we were lucky enough to get pregnant the "natural" way, but it took awhile. I did everything the "right way" from the moment we started trying to get pregnant and I damned sure did it the "right way" once I found out I was pregnant.
Except when I was fifteen weeks pregnant, we found out our baby's heart (that we had seen beating twice) had stopped. For no known reason that testing could find. (And I swear to God, if you or anyone else in this thread tells me "It was part of God's plan." I may actually find a way to come through the computer screen and punch you.)
So, you see, babycakes, you could say we did it the "right way" even more than you because I'm pretty sure what my husband makes with his PhD is a hell of a lot more than what yours can make with just a high school diploma. I'm also pretty sure we grew up a lot in those college years and realized we still worked as a couple, something you guys don't know yet because you're still children playing house.***
We did everything the "right way" and we had our hearts shattered. I had to go through the hell of labor and delivery for a baby I didn't get to take home. My husband and I had to (and still are despite the joy of our take-home baby) grieve over our lost boy. Then we had to deal with the fresh hell of trying to conceive after a loss and everyone asking when we were going to get pregnant again.
We did everything the "right way" and were broken along the way while a judgmental brat like you had it incredibly easy.
Doing it the "right way" means jack squat.
I can't even begin to imagine the pain of battling infertility, but I am so glad that the rest of the family is excited for your sister-in-law. She deserves it. You would have, too, if you weren't being such a pathetic child.
***This is not to say that everyone has to have an advanced degree or even a BA/BS to be successful in life. I know plenty of people who stopped their formal education with high school and have turned out just fine. Most of them, though, didn't have the same attitude as the little princess here and just about every single one of them will tell you it's a damned hard way to start your adult life.
ETA: It's also not meant to say that you can't make a lasting marriage when you get married young. It is harder, though. Like a poster pointed out earlier, statistically, the majority of young marriages end in divorce.
All of this. I'm so sorry for what you went through, but really, just =D>
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My bills are none of your business! As long as you aren't paying them it doesn't matter who is be that my husband or my parents. It is none of your concern. Just make sure you aren't behind on your bills bills
Do you work? Or are you going to school? Just wondering what you do all day while you have so many family members who are providing for you.
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Married: May 2006
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Ok I just read all the replies. For whoever said something about me spreading my legs I would like for you to know my HUSBAND and I created our child thru making love. I would not use ivf or any other stuff like that to conceive. A true miracle is a child created thru a husband and wifes passion for each other not in a lab. I'm sorry but I do not feel its right.
YOU GOT TO BE SHITTING ME. LMAO MAKING LOVE?! Sorry not to be vulgar...but my husband and I do love eachother...but we definitely has dirty nasty post-deployment-haven't-seen-you-in-8-months fucksession. Making love....gtfoh.
You're a pretty large thundercunt for even "confessing" your opinion about IVF. FEEL LUCKY YOU DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT. Your SIL is getting more attention most likely because she's not a fucking tool.
Taking sperm from a cup and mixing it with an egg is by a lab is not at all the same as a married couple creating a child by making love. Children will come into a marriage when the time is right, you shouldn't bring in stuff that is not supposed to happen like ivf. That is just how I feel nothing anyone says will change that. Children should be created in a marriage naturally .
I agree. FUCK YOU! My DD is the best thing that has ever happened to my HUSBAND and I. I'm pretty sure we love each other more than you and your husband after going through 4.5 years of IF struggles and IVF. My daughter is most definitely a miracle. She is the sole survivor from our IVF cycle out of 16 viable eggs. You are a horrible, horrible immature person. I hope you look back on your comments (sooner than later) and realize how horrible they were.
PS. I would like an update on your marriage a few months after your baby arrives. Good luck!!
Re: FFFC
So divorced people aren't doing it "the right way" either? What point is your SIL trying to prove? Please explain.
Do you seriously not give a care at all that the ignorant, vile & close-minded vitriol that you are spewing is hurtful to some that read it?
My kids were all conceived spontaneously through sex. That doesn't mean they are more special than the next kid over created through IVF etc.
Why do you think your way is the only way to make a family? I truly hope your SIL never hears this garbage. How hurtful.
You can have your fucked up opinions but there is just some stuff you keep to yourself.
I'm from July/August 2013 birth month board. Rest assured that you have permanently ruined your reputation on these boards as a whole. Go away & take your horrible beliefs with you.
Also, you are the furthest thing from a lady with tact, class & a heart that I've ever seen/heard/read. There are other names, but since I am choosing to be a better person than you I'm refraining from speaking them.
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Sorry to keep dragging this up, guys.
@ladyabagail. I also got married at 18 to my high school sweetheart and had a baby at 18. Your immaturity is showing. He was the love of my life, we were going to get through anything! Divorce is not an option! Guess what? As soon as we moved out of my mom's house and real life hit...real life is hard!! We didn't last 3 months after 4 years of dating and having to deal with the real world (you know, one that didn't involve making out in the stairwell during passing periods and sharing a locker).
I got pregnant again with baby #2 by baby daddy number two at 19. Had her at 20. He was also the love of my life and we were going to get married and everything was going to be grand! Then I found out he was a drug addicted alcoholic and I wasted years trying to hang on and make it last because it was the "right" thing. Until he became violent and I knew it was no longer worth it.
I am now 28 and pregnant with #3 by the third man (gasp!!) and he truly is a wonderful man. He takes care of me and my girls like they're his own. He has sacrificed so much for our mashed up family and, now, NOW! At 28 I am old enough and mature enough to deal with life's issues.
I tell you all of this because I am nowhere near the same person today as I was 10 years ago. And you won't be either.
In addition to all of this, I would LOVE to be an egg donor so that someone else can have a precious child to love. I can't, though. I am perfectly healthy, I have an over abundance of eggs, and I can't share them with anyone. I was born in Turkey when my dad was stationed there. An issue with the meat that was shipped to the troops stationed there prevents me from donating my eggs (as well as my much needed O- blood) to anyone. It breaks my heart to watch women try and fail to conceive month after month, year after year, and to know that I could literally take that pain away and the fucking government won't let me. You are so, so incredibly selfish to think a baby made in a Petri dish is any less important, loved, or real than your baby made in the heat of 18 year old passion. You would do well to ask the wizard of oz to supply you with a heart. You need it much, much more than the tin man.
I hope one day you can pull your head out of your ass and see the immaturity you spew. And I hope you are embarrassed and ashamed of yourself. You are still a little girl, being married and pregnant means nothing.
Andplusalso. Fuck off.
Her posts stink of childish jealousy. It's so obvious & I think Jesus is shaking his head at her venomous spirit. Instead of being joyful that she's getting a blessing she is bitching about it.
@ladyabagail : you sound like a spiteful, hateful & miserable individual.
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@ladyagabail, regardless of your immutable opinion, you are immature and ignorant. I feel sorry for your baby, if it will grow up in a home with such judgmental "traditional" beliefs. I feel especially sorry for your SIL, who had to deal with the pain of IF, and also having you look down on her goddamn miracle pregnancy/baby, because she wasn't lucky like you.
You are not special, nor are you right (quite the opposite, if there is any "right"). I was lucky too, I've conceived twice without any intervention, and this last time was literally a last ditch "I hate that I'm not pregnant this month and I want it not to be that way next month". I had sex with my H because it was the right time, in that my 2 yr old was almost guaranteed to wake up in the next 45 minutes, so we got down to business before that. I tried for 2 months to get my first little guy, and about 4 this time. Both times after we were marred (but following YEARS of premarital sex on oral contraceptives!!)
I am lucky, because I am fertile, and you are lucky. We are not special. Your pregnancy/baby is not any more important than your SIL's and it's evidence of your emotional immaturity (and general douchbaggery) that you can even think you are, or that you've done something "right".
I'm also still trying to figure out what point your SIL is "proving" by spending thousands of dollars and undergoing physical and emotional pain to conceive her little miracle, but I'm sure it's something obvious that my nontraditional brain just can't comprehend
I hope you're an AE/troll, although somehow I suspect not. Even if you are, saying things like you have is so despicable it makes me upset that people can even think the sorts of things like you posted. Ignorance is not bliss, it is vile.
I guess I always thought fertility babies were the miracle ones....
-July 2014
So now you're saying that you're better than anyone using ovulation sticks? Now you've attacked an even larger population here.
Guess what, I dated my husband for 5 years before we were married (boom, one up on ya there), we were COLLEGE sweethearts (very much in love), and went through a lot together (as PP said more than making out in high school stairwells). We conceived our daughter within the first four months of our marriage. Well guess what we are ready for another child and are having to go through more trouble this time. Work, thought, emotion by using ovulation sticks. But I assure you still with plenty of love.
When you have gone through the heartache of loosing a child or a pregnancy or try month and month without conceiving maybe you would feel differently. Think about where these other women have been and the road they have been down to get to IVF or other means to become a mother. Congratulations to your SIL.
Pregnancy #3 after two prior losses in 2013
Married: 4/5/13
"You know that place between sleep and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I will always love you.
That's where I'll be waiting."
~Peter Pan
*TW*
BFP #2: 10/29/17 MMC dx @ 9 weeks
BFP #3: 2/2/18 MC 2/7/18
BFP #4: 3/2/18 MC 3/9/18
RPL testing and hysteroscopy: all normal
BFP #5: 4/1/18 MMC dx @ 14 weeks ----> genetically normal girl
Hysteroscopy to remove scar tissue 9/28
BFP #6 11/5/18 EDD 7/20/19
BFP #7 12/8/2021 EDD 8/22/2022
That's where my similarities to Abagail end. I am thrilled for my SIL. It was so hard for me to watch her going through that pain. And to be honest, I'm almost as excited for her "science baby" as I am for my "love baby."
Having put a little bit of my backstory out there, I think all (or most) of us can agree that dear Abagail is cray cray, and she certainly voiced a really unpopular opinion in a really childish, offensive way. And we all have the right to react to her craziness. I know that she isn't going to change her mind or her outlook by reading all of the replies to her post, but maybe she'll re-think how she presents herself and her opinions in the future.
Ok I just read all the replies. For whoever said something about me spreading my legs I would like for you to know my HUSBAND and I created our child thru making love. I would not use ivf or any other stuff like that to conceive. A true miracle is a child created thru a husband and wifes passion for each other not in a lab. I'm sorry but I do not feel its right.
I can't wait for the day that child protective services shows up at your house because w comments like that you are way to dumb and irresponsible to care for your love made baby. My child is the most beautiful creature that I have ever been blessed to have in my presence and for you to insinuate that he is sub par to yours because of how he was made makes me sad that our children will be sharing the same planet. Also I can guarantee that my hard work and education will be going to pay for your child's care, because I highly doubt your career or future is very bright. So there you go, you want to get personal chick, lets go!!! You have pissed off this momma bear.
Me 34 DH 31, Together since 2003, Married August 20, 2011, TTC since May 2013
BFP #1 August 24, 2013! MMC discovered Oct. 3, 2013, D&C Oct. 4, 2013
BFP #2 December 17, 2013! MMC discovered Jan. 28, 2014, D&C Jan. 30, 2014
Testing done: male with complete Trisomy 16, not hereditary. Tested me for clotting disorders, all normal.
Feb. 2014 all clear again to TTC! Will start progesterone supplementation with the next BFP just in case. Oct. 2014 more testing just because, thyroid and autoimmune panels = normal. Diagnostic U/S = no abnormalities. Will keep trying for 3-6 more months, doctor still optimistic!
BFP #3 December 11, 2014! Beta #1 14DPO = 122.4 Beta #2 17DPO = 296.8 Please stick little one and be our Rainbow!
Perfect little heartbeat of 156 seen 1/7/15
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EDD 8/21/2015 Team Green!
FWIW- I've noticed that my IVF daughter, who is almost three, actually spells better than you. True story, I shit you not.
Aren't you tired of the entire Bump hating you? Give it a rest. You claim to be such a grown up show some maturity and grace and bow out.
BFP 4/4/12 CP 4/10/12
9/20/2013 Came home with our little miracle from the Philippines
11/26/2013 Surprise!!! BFP!

Go home, Abagail.
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So, you and me are through
Can you pay my bills?
Can you pay my telephone bills?
Do you pay my automo' bills?
If you did then maybe we could chill
I don't think you do
So, you and me are through
my dad always said that if you can't be 100% financially independent of your family, you're not ready to get married. Unfortunately my brother didn't heed that and he's going thru a divorce. At age 28 he's never lived outside of home despite being married for 4 years!
ladyabagail may not be living with her folks but its obvious they are still relying on them in some ways. That can only hurt a marriage
Bunny: 10.9.13
Jellybean #2 Due: 2.1.16
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Hiking and Baseball Games with the Fam
On another note, I miss you girls of A14. I know I was here a short time but you made my feelers feel.
@ladyabagail. Are you FUCKING kidding me?!?! You live off your parents. You are not ready for the real world!! You need to grow up. Again, I was a teen mom also. I lived off my parents for a few years and guess what? Eventually I was told I needed to make my own way. With no college degree the best I could do was work a dead end retail job. I collected food stamps and government insurance. It took a LONG time (again, I had my oldest 10 years ago) and it was not easy but I finally worked my way up to a position with a company where I would be "ok" if I had to do it on my own. I am fortunate that my wonderful boyfriend actually did something with his life and he can provide for us all of the "extras" but I can guarantee you I would not be in the financial position I am without him, even 10 years later. You do not everything. You are quite literally playing house. Yeah, it might seem awesome and easy, but that's because you are not responsible for yourselves. You don't have to pay rent, electricity, gas, water, garbage...these are things you do as an ADULT. Again, you are still a child. I've been where you are, I know what it will take to move on. You are not ready. I hope you figure out soon that you're not as grown up as you think you are.
This is all I have to say about that.
5 DIUI - BFN
IVF#1 - BFP - AJ 7/12
FET#1 - BFP Due 7/24/14
@Ladyabagail, I, too, married young (I was 20) and thought I was "grown up" and had my shit together. Again, like you, I also happened to meet my husband while I was in high school (we met online!) and we lived on our own without any parental help as soon as I graduated. We both worked; he had a great job, I was going to school, and I even got pregnant two months after our wedding which ended in an early m/c. Not even two months later, my DH's amazing well paying job laid off 500+ workers including him, and I was forced to quit my job and school to move over an hour away to an area that we could afford on a new, very tight budget. (I say this only as a reminder that situations can change and relying solely on your husband for support in this age is naive and completely impractical, but then again, you already admitted mommy and daddy haven't cut the cord, so I partially see where your enabling stems from)
I may not have conceived with IVF, but I understand the sacrifices that those couples have made to have just a small shot at a family of their own. You should feel blessed to be able to conceive so quickly and naturally, and you should not take that for granted, but what kind of person has so much jealousy and spite in their hearts that they cannot have one ounce of empathy for someone who has struggled for the same thing?
Your statement about being grown up is about as factual as your statement that your SIL is having this baby to show you up. To be grown up means to look outside one's self and to realize that there is more to life than what is smack dab in front of your nose.
And you are far to early along in your pregnancy to have everything set in stone. I know it may be before your time, but have you ever heard the expression "Dont count your chickens before they hatch"? Your pregnancy is not guaranteed, just like anyone else's here, and while I pray that you do not ever have to go through a loss, until that child is safely placed in your arms, you can never fully know or anticipate what can potentially go wrong.
This is what I mean about being grown up. It's not about age or marital status, it's about the foresight to think through all possibilities before making judgments about others' choices and lives. If you had any kind of foresight or empathy, you would be thrilled for your SIL! Heck, I dont even know her, and I am thrilled for her!
All of this. I'm so sorry for what you went through, but really, just
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Baby Girl Born: April 2014
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Baby Girl Born: April 2014
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you:
5 DIUI - BFN
IVF#1 - BFP - AJ 7/12
FET#1 - BFP Due 7/24/14