I have posted this before several times, but everytime I try to find my previous post, I can't! I love it, and find it's given me tons of comfort, and often when someone new joins, I feel like it might help them, too. So, thinking of Dana (and all the times in the future I may be searching for this!) I've put it here so it's easy to find and bump up if need be!

I don't remember who wrote it, but it was someone here on the boards, talking about an app't with her RE. I didn't include the whole post, but just the part that might apply to us.

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...He then told me something that I thought some of you might find interesting. He said many years ago he had a patient who came to him after 6 miscarriages (no live births). He prescribed a progessive treatment of drugs and low and behold, she carried #7 to term. The dr really thought his progressive treatment helped her. A year later she came back for the same treatment to have a second child. On that same treatment she suffered two more miscarriages before she had child #2. The dr told me that he could no longer consider that his original treatment helped that woman. He said the pattern showed that it was a matter of randomness. He said that if you stick with it the numbers eventually are in your favor. He said the problem then is if your heart can take it. He said that in all of his years of practice (at a very respected clinic) there was only one woman who suffered from repeated miscarriages that didn't eventually go on to have a baby. She had 16 miscarriages and was at an age where she decided to give up. He said that all of his patients that stick with it, eventually get their baby.

I'm not sure if that will make any of you feel better or worse about things, but I thought I'd share. I guess the point is for those of us who have gone through testing, and nothing is found, the odds are in our favor that eventually we will have our baby. I guess it is just a matter if mentally we can get through so many heartbreaking losses.

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Sheri

Our miracles, Andrew, born Sept 18/03

and Juliana, born Feb 26/09

Eight angels