Hijacking a Post - The CCRM Summer (2010) Cyclers - WE DID IT!!!!

As a new Mom of one week, there are so may thoughts swirling through my head right now...so much I want to document and share, but where to start and finding the time to do it right now? (I've been up since 2:30 am and notice the time of this post is 4:43 am).

Oh, I know...let's start here, and I'll try to add first week details in subsequent posts:


Hijacking a Post
For those of you who read my blog and are still on your journey, I thought you might enjoy reading this post  that I copied from my friend's blog.

About eighteen months ago, when we started with CCRM, I joined a message board with six other women. Through time, we have kept up our connection and these women have become very, very special to me - even though I've never met some of them. It is a beautiful post that summarizes our journey together.

It brightens my heart to look at a star-lit sky and know that when we started, we all wished upon those stars. Today, I am overjoyed each time I think that these nine "CCRM Summer Cyclers" will forever be connected when, from all across North America, they look upon the same stars in the sky each night.

Thanks for documenting this Lisa!

Ode to the CCRM Summer (2010) Cyclers - WE DID IT!!!!

This post is one of pure celebration...yesterday the IVFC forum thread "CCRM Summer Cyclers" saw the last but not least, Flygirl, give birth to B/G twins...how cool is that to have a birthday that fell on 11/11/11? 

But what's so awesome about this particular thread is that ALL of us came out of the trenches together and with babies to take home!  I would venture to say that its a VERY rare occurrence when all cyclers in any particular IF forum thread come out on the other side.  A testament to the skill of the CCRM staff  and LUCK without a doubt.

The thread was filled with ups and downs as we started our ERs, ET's and FETs throughout the summer of 2010.  We all followed in RachelDiana's footsteps as she waded through the ER/CCS/FET process first, we rejoiced when LC1 broke the news she was expecting twins; we remained cautiously optimistic for Jasperina upon the news she was carrying triplets and then cried when she lost the identical twins and hung on hope for her singleton; we cried for Flygirl when her first FET resulted in yet ANOTHER m/c; the Summer Cyclers helped me through the mixed feelings a pg brings after previous pg losses and they rode the progesterone/threatened pg rollercoaster with me as LN10 battled to stay viable (a special prayer for LN10 was even said by Flygirl at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome as she toured Italy last fall); we rejoiced in the news that AuntieEm10 was expecting twins and hearts sank to learn of her fall that resulted in many broken bones and a harrowing road to recovery while pregnant with twins (!!); and finally we held our breaths as Flygirl's 2nd FET attempt resulted in yet another pg and remained cautiously optimistic that drugs to counteract a newly discovered blood clotting disorder would work...

And so I bring to you the results:

RachelDiana:  Baby Girl born June 2nd, 2011
LC1:  Boy/Girl twins born June 13th, 2011
LisainSK (moi!):  Baby Boy born June 28th, 2011 *somehow I butted myself in front of Jasperina as I wasn't due until July 20th!!*
Jasperina:  Baby Boy born June 29th, 2011
AuntieEm:  Girl/Girl twins born September 13th, 2011
Flygirl555:  Boy/Girl twins born November 11th, 2011

For a total of 5 baby girls and 4 baby boys, 3 singletons and 3 sets of twins.......WOW!!

We managed to rack up over 27 forum pages before the babies were born and have added about 3 additional pages since June 2011...needless to say...we're all busy mamma's now!!