A Little About Me A Little About You

Name: Aoife (pronounce EE-fah)

Age: 26

Location: Southern Ontario, Canada

Occupation: Master's degree student (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Part time research assistant

Short Personal Description: I am 26 years old and married. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to Canada in childhood, went back to the UK after secondary school for 2.5 years and worked on a sheep farm. Also travelled around Europe during my gap year. After this I went back to Canada to attend university where I received an honours degree in biology and am now working on my master's degree in earth sciences. I do some part time work for a professor as a research assistant and also do some exam proctoring. I am married to my lovely DH who is 32 and works at a bank as a wealth advisor (he also does some grand consulting for not for profits on the side) This will be my first cycle trying for baby (which will be both my and DH's first) and I am super excited and a tad impatient.

Hobbies: I play classical violin, love horseback riding but have been unable to do so due to lack of stables near by and lack of time :( and I LOVE reading and listening to podcasts. Most of my hobbies revolve around dorky academic things, I love physics and military history. For exercise I do yoga but have kind of been slacking on that!

Colour: Purple

Food: Any kind of Indian food!

Hang-out: DH and I go to bonfires with friends almost weekly, spending time with my 11 yo sister and watching antiques roadshow.... wow i'm lame. :(

Books: currently reading "Mere Christianity" C.S. Lewis and "Atlas Shrugged" Ayn Rand. I also love non-fiction, but I do so much reading for school that there is not a lot of time left for recreational reading

Movies: Anything sci-fi or dystopian

TV Shows: Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Thick of it

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Peru, Italy (Rome in particular), Iceland

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my DH (lame...but true. He is my rock <3)

Greatest Ambition: Finish my Master's, have a happy household with 5 kids, be a SAHM

Biggest Achievement: Completing my undergrad, working my butt off trough secondary school to fund my trip to Europe

What You Can't Live Without: The internet, books, DH, my little sister
 
Hi I am 26 and this is my second time TTC after a MC in 2007. The last time we were TCC was in 2010 but due to husband getting really sick and me freaking due to all the meds they wanted to use in me we stopped TCC. This time we are committed and ready! I was only 20 when I MC and then 23 when we TTC the first time. This time I know it is time I am older more prepared and my husband is healthy. I am a full time Nursing Student and that helps keep me from going crazy with all the waiting that comes into play while TCC ha ha! We already know this is going to be long journey and are praying to be pregnant in about a year, but are open and willingly to God's plan for us. I look forward to meeting more people and creating a support group her.
 
Name: Mandy

Age: 30

Location: Mississippi

Occupation: SAHM

Short Personal Description: Married to my soul mate for 10 years. Mom of 2 energetic little boys.

Favorites:

Hobbies: Reading, listening to music, spending time with my family, browsing the internet, video games.

Color: Yellow

Food: Mexican!

Hang-out: My mom's

Music: Rock & alternative with the occasion pop song.

Books: Too many to list!

Movies: The Goonies, Legally Blonde, Wreck It Ralph lol

TV Shows: The Walking Dead, Revenge, Grey's Anatomy, Switched at Birth, The Fosters

Authors: J.K. Rowling

Cartoon Character: Jake

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Italy

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My mom

Greatest Ambition: To be happy in life.

Biggest Achievement: My children.

Grandest Wish: Equality for all!

What You Can't Live Without: My phone!
 
A Little About Me

Name: Shelby

Age: 20

Location: Southwest Iowa

Occupation: Reservations Manager

Short Personal Description: I was born and raised in Iowa. I've been married since August this year to my best friend. We have one fur-baby, she is a Dachshund/Chihuahua mix and has the most spunky attitude you can imagine! My husband and I are TTC #1!
Favorites:

Hobbies: Singing, shopping, playing with my puppy, and reading

Color: Purple

Food: Sesame Chicken!

Hang-out: Watching movies at home

Music: almost anything!

Books: Mysteries on Wattpad

Movies: Tangled, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunger Games, The Roxbury, Elf, Dear John, Son in Law, 50 first dates, the list goes on forever.

TV Shows: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Cupcake Wars, Man vs. Food, (see a trend here?)

Authors: Ellen Hopkins

Cartoon Character: Peter Griffin


Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Germany

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My husband

Greatest Ambition: To be happy with whatever life throws me!

Biggest Achievement: Marrying my best friend!

Grandest Wish: To have children to complete my family

What You Can't Live Without: My laptop!
 
Name: Jen

Age: 30

Location: Rhode Island

Occupation: hospice RN case manager

Short Personal Description: I am a lucky mother of one perfect little, big, 5 year old boy. I love my work and feel as though it is my calling and my mission. I LOVE kickboxing and find myself there 2-4 days a week. Before I was a nurse I was a vet tech, and though I loved it and miss it, its something I won't do again.... its nice to have a sane number of pets in our home haha!
Favorites: being a mom, nursing, kickboxing, pinterest, tv

Hobbies: snuggling, kickboxing, gardening, tv

Color: purple

Food: cheese, any kind in anything. Cheese.

Hang-out: my couch or the karate school

Music: any and everything.

Books: in search of a good book actually

Movies: funny, Judd Apatow flicks, World War Z, Nightmare Before Christmas, Despicable Me (I am a forever child)

TV Shows: walking dead, homeland, game of thrones, newsroom

Authors: hmmm

Cartoon Character: the Mayor in Nightmare

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Sicily to see where my mothers family is from

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my mom, even though she isa guardian angel looking down she will always be my strongest influence.

Greatest Ambition: To be happy, and to not worry.

Biggest Achievement: Losing my mom when I was 26 and using it to springboard me ito a better life and caring for people

Grandest Wish: comfort in the life we live

What You Can't Live Without: my family
 
A little about me...

Name: Niki
Age: 37
Married
Location: MN
Work: I work at a hospital in the purchasing dept

I am married and have an amazing 12 yr old son.

My husband doesn't have any kids of his own so we started researching surrogacy and while looking into that we were approached about adopting a baby. We were over the moon. Well a month before the baby was due the birth mom backed out. That left our family devastated. A good friend who was so excited about the adoption was so upset over the failed adoption she offered to be a surrogate for us! I suppose I should explain back when I was 33 I had to have an emergency hysterectomy due to health issues. I struggled for while with having it done. My husband was well aware that I couldn't carry another child, but now I just have that empty feeling in our family.
So I was told about this site helping my friend with support so here I am.
 
Hello everybody, my name is shelby but i prefer Skyler. i am 19 until November 1st :p I had previously been pregnant but unfortunately it wasnt exactly successful :/ i miscarried on 12/11/12 (at 12 weeks pregnant) but i told myself that things happen for a reason... and it did. I became pregnant again and found out i was pregnant on May 11, 2013! Today i am 33 weeks and 2 days pregnant with my baby girl Caitlin Marie Barnes. I am thankful for her and she will always come first... no matter what! I want to give her everything i never had. Anyway, on this website im looking forward to meeting new people and making new friends! :)

Name: Skyler

Age: 19

Location: Kentucky

Hobbies: drawing

Color: Cerulean

Food: Chicken Noodle Soup :3

Hang-Out: Back Porch

Music: almost anything

Books: Fantasy, Japanese Animes, Graphic Novels, Dean Koontz, Gary Paulson...

Movies: Titanic, Avatar, Silver Bullett, Drop Dead Fred, Pet Semetary, Liar Liar.... mostly scary movies.

Favorite Actor: Jim Carrey, Gary Sinise, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones.

Favorite Actress: Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Drew BerryMoore and Dakota Fanning.

Cartoon Character: Courage the Cowardly Dog

Country I Wish to Visit the Most: Italy

Greatest Ambition: To be called the worlds greatest mom by my little pickle.

Grandest Wish: to live happily ever after!

What i cant live without: My ability to draw
 
A Little About Me

Name: Brandi

Age: 27

Location: Genoa City, Wi

Occupation: Home Depot

Favorites:

Hobbies: Internet, TV, spending time with my family

Color: Pink

Food: Pasta

Hang-out: My house :)

Music: Country

Books: *Laughs*

Movies: That's too hard. There are a million.

TV Shows: Gray's Anatomy. Glee. Bones.

Authors: *Laughs*

Cartoon Character: Peter and Louis!

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Ireland

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My grandma

Greatest Ambition: To have a big, happy family.

Biggest Achievement: Going back to school!

Grandest Wish: To have my children succeed.

What You Can't Live Without: My phone and computer.


A little about me! I have been married for a little over 2 years, and we have a one year old son named Zackery. We tried for 2 years to get pregnant with him, and with this one it only took us 2 months. I currently am a full time student at the University of Phoenix, and I work part time so I have time to spend with my family. I am all about family. They are my everything!
 
ABOUT ME

Name: Joanna

Age: 31

Location: Eastern Tennessee, USA

Occupation: Development officer for a small liberal-arts college (fancy way of saying "fundraiser")

Short Personal Description: I just started my current job and I'm learning a lot. I love being back on a college campus. It's a great pocket of progressive thinkers tucked away in this tiny conservative town. My DW is a middle school teacher. She and I have been together for almost five years and are VERY EXCITED about starting our family :hugs: (well, adding to our family as we have two cats who think they're humans).

Favorites: Drinking coffee and hot tea :coffee:, listening to Throwing Shade podcast, Twitter, red wine, going out to eat, making people question their stereotypes of lesbians, fantasizing about my big gay wedding in Tennessee (no date set yet)

Hobbies: Reading, watching TV, traveling (we love cruises), making bracelets, fashion and beauty blogs, keeping up with pop culture and politics, listening to music, going to concerts, reading movie reviews, baking, and running (not so much a hobby as a habit I try my darndest to keep up).

Color: Maroon

Food: Yes please

Hang-out: Mostly my house.

Music: Everything, seriously. I studied classical voice in college and love to sing opera, I've been to Bonnaroo and love weird independent bands, I've seen Jay-Z in concert twice, I can sing along to almost every Top 40 hit, and living in East TN pretty much requires one to know at least three Dolly Parton songs.

Books: Favorite books are A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and The Glass Castle. Currently reading She's Come Undone.

Movies: Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Life is Beautiful. Also documentaries.

TV Shows: American Horror Story, LOST, The Rachel Maddow Show, Modern Family, The Daily Show, Key and Peele, Homeland, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, The L Word, New Girl

Authors: C.S. Lewis, Madeline L'Engle, Wally Lamb, J.K. Rowling

Cartoon Character: Not really any. Does Pixar count?


DIGGING DEEPER:


Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Next on my list is The Czech Republic. Also Australia someday.

Most Influential Person in Your Life: As cheesy as it sounds, my sweet, wonderful, loving, kind, hilarious, and brilliant woman. She and I have been through so much together and I can't imagine embarking on this journey with anyone else.

Greatest Ambition: To make a difference.

Biggest Achievement: So far, graduating from college. I hope to soon be able to say "motherhood".

Grandest Wish:
To sing for money.

What You Can't Live Without: My iPhone, the Internet, DW, and my sweet cat babies.
 
Forgot to say that we're TTC #1 and I'm currently in the TWW for the third time. We've used frozen donor sperm the last two times. This time we used our last two vials of frozen donor sperm and decided to go ahead and use fresh donor sperm (different donor) as well. We plan to continue to use the second donor if no :bfp:.
 
Great to read everyone's story!

A Little About Me

Name: Sorry...won't stay..just call me by my username :p

Age: 25

Location: Thailand (I'm from the US but live/work in Thailand now!)

Occupation: Teacher

Short Personal Description: Well, I am from the US, but work as a teacher in Thailand. I met my boyfriend here (he is Thai) and have been together for 8 years now. :)

Favorites:

Hobbies: reading, travelling, writing, badminton

Color: Blue

Food: Thai food! :p

Hang-out: on TTC forums (haha!) and at work...

Music: I like everything except rap

Books: too many...

Movies: too many...

TV Shows: Law & Order, Modern Family, etc.

Authors: Too many...

Cartoon Character: not sure....


Country You Wish To Visit The Most: I guess Italy or Greece!

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my BF (hehe) and my Mom

Greatest Ambition: To live a comfortable, happy life and be successful in my own way.

Biggest Achievement: Adapting myself to another culture

Grandest Wish: a baby! :D and to be able to live my life to the fullest.

What You Can't Live Without: Internet...
 
A Little About Me


Name: Kayla


Age: 26


Location: Nebraska


Occupation: Science Teacher


Short Personal Description: My Dh and I started TTC our first baby in Jan of 2012. After trying many different things and many dr appointments in June I started my first round of 50 mg clomid and that did nothing so we bumped it up and tried it again at 100 mg in July, I was able to get pregnant but miscarried late August. My doc wanted me to wait 2 cycles before I started clomid again. We are now on our round of 100 mg of clomid this month, we get to test in 6 days.


Favorites:


Hobbies: Reading, playing games (board, video, card, any really!)

Color: Purple

Food: Soft dough pretzels with cheese&#8230; yummm&#8230;.

Music: Hip-hop and rap

Books: Oh man&#8230;. I will just name a few- All Janet Evanovich books, Harry Potter series, Hunger Games series, The Key Series by Nora Robers&#8230; I will stop, but I could go on!

Movies: Wreck it Ralph, The Wizard of Oz, How to Train your Dragon, anything else Disney&#8230; and more!

TV Shows: Bones, Almost Human, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Authors: Janet Evanovich, Nora Roberts, Iris Johansen, Jennifer Cruise

Cartoon Character: Phineas and Ferb
 
Age: 29

Location: western Wisconsin

Occupation: Autism therapist

Short Personal Description: Passionate, loyal, try to make the world a better place. I'm also a foster mom to my nephews whom I love as my own

Favorites:

Hobbies: taking care of my boys, giving to others

Color: Orange

Food: brownies

Hang-out: with my best friends

Music: I love Christian rock

Books: bible and autobiographies

Movies: miracle on 34th st, at first sight

TV Shows: Nashville, revenge, once upon a time, Grey's, parenthood

Cartoon Character: Chip and dale

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Italy and Ireland are tied

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my family, the saints

Greatest ambition: to be a mom, become a saint, make memories

Biggest Achievement: becoming a foster parent

Grandest Wish: To be a forever mom

What You Can't Live Without : God
 
Age:36

Location: Athens, Greece

Occupation: Freelance Graphic Designer

I live with my husband, we were married in 2008 and have been TTC since 2009

Favorites:

Hobbies: Music, Gardening, Cinema, Cooking

Color: Pink

Food: Not fussy at all

Hang-out: with our friends-mostly at home

Music: Alt Rock

Movies: Love Actually, Shawshank Redemption, Hunger Games

TV Shows: Greys Anatomy, Downton Abbey



Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Argentina

Most Influential Person in Your Life: My darling Hubby

Greatest Ambition: Finally have a family and to run a successful business

Biggest Achievement: not sure yet

Grandest Wish: Baby baby

What You Can't Live Without : My friends, my family and my iPad
 
Hi, I am Sasha and I gave birth to my DD this year and am planning #2 for 2015! Can't wait!!
 
Age: 30

Location: Maryland

Occupation: occupational therapist

Short Personal Description: I am passionate about the work I do and the people in my life.

Favorites:

Hobbies: games, scrapbooking, taking care of my parrot

Color: purple

Food: bread pudding is my weakness

Hang-out: with our game night crowd

Music: 80's!

Books: love medical fiction!

Movies: don't think I can choose just one...

TV Shows: Shark Tank

Cartoon Character: I will go with Minnie Mouse for this one.

Digging Deeper:

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Well, we went to Brazil for our honeymoon, so I guess next on the list that I have not been to would be somewhere in Europe

Most Influential Person in Your Life: my mom and Grandma

Greatest ambition: to be a mom, to make a difference in people's lives

Biggest Achievement: becoming an occupational therapist

Grandest Wish: To have a wonderful family that strives to make the world a better place.

What You Can't Live Without : God
 
Hi, I just got a positive blood test for the very first time and I wanted to lurk around the forums (and even post a little) to get first hand experience from other ladies.

Age: 34

Location: Ontario (formerly Michigan)

My interests: I'm into music of all sorts and I went to college for piano pedagogy. I love literature, mostly fantasy and sci-fi but I will read just about everything. My husband and I both love games, both tabletop and video, and like nothing more than playing a good RPG.

I don't watch much TV as we don't have any service but when I can catch it online, I love Castle.


Some Background: I grew up in Michigan and my husband spent the first half of his life growing up in Poland. He immigrated to Canada when he was 13. We met in an IRC chatroom and were casual friends for years before we started taking a more personal interest in each other. We got married in 2004 and I moved to Canada immediately after.

We didn't have much money so we put off trying to have kids at the beginning. When we started two years ago, we didn't realize there would be issues until I started seeing a fertility doctor this past summer. Found out I have an unusual uterus and a blocked tube. We feel incredibly blessed to have gotten pregnant this month!

Sorry, I don't like filling out lists. ;)
 
A Little About Me

Name: Laura

Age: 28

Location: Orange Park, Florida

Occupation: SAHM/WAHM

Short Personal Description: I currently work from home full-time & part-time. I am originally from Kentucky(birth place of KFC). I spend a lot of my time on facebook, but I'm also a part of some other forums and have made many wonderful friends on them. :) I hope to make some more wonderful friends here! I met my husband the first time when we were 13, but we didn't start dating until we were 16. We've been together for 12 years in March and married for 8 years in February. I have three daughters, 7, 4, and 2. I would love to have another baby, maybe try for a boy.

Favorites:

Hobbies: Internet, make-up, coloring with my girls

Color: I have several favorites. Pink, Black, Purple and Green

Food: Chinese

Hang-out: I don't have one :)

Music: My taste in music is all over the place, so I pretty much like anything.

Books: Any, I love to read.

Movies: The Notebook

TV Shows: The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, and Once Upon A Time

Authors: V.C. Andrews, Dean Koontz, Stephan King, and James Patterson

Cartoon Character: Tweetie Bird and Hello Kitty

Digging Deeper: Halloween is my favorite holiday and fall is my favorite season. I'm very country.

Country You Wish To Visit The Most: Ireland or Scotland

Most Influential Person in Your Life: I don't really have one

Greatest Ambition: To become a Cosmetologist and to be financially secure as well as happy.

Biggest Achievement: Giving life to my children, bringing them into the world.

Grandest Wish: To be happy.

What You Can't Live Without: My Phone and my laptop.
 

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