Monday's Connections Abound

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Lost and Found is open to anyone in the infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, pregnancy-and-parenting after infertility, assisted conception, living child-free after infertility or loss community (as well as anyone I inadvertently missed on that list). Please support the list as well as anyone posting announcements below.

Connections Abound

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

• This Tuesday's Oprah: Lisa Ling Investigates: Wombs for Rent. How far would you go to have a baby? Meet a woman halfway around the world who's pregnant with an American couple's baby. Then, why Martha Stewart's daughter spends almost $28,000 a month trying to make Martha a grandmother. Um...the words are Oprah's--not mine...
  

NEW BLOGS (started in September or October of 2007)

• Molli's IVF Journey (IVF,MFI)
• As I See It (parenting after loss, the day-to-day counterpart to a blog in the stillbirth/neonatal birth section)
• Evil Clomid (orals, injectibles, and suppositories)
• Journal of Uncertainty (IVF)
  

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES:A new section. Celebrate your birthday or blogoversary with the community. Send me dates for October/November right now and I'll post them on the correct day.

• Michelle's anniversary is today, October 8. It's their 13th anniversary! Go offer them congratulations.
• Tina's 9th anniversary is on Wednesday, October 10. Go tell them congratulations!
  

LOSS ANNOUNCEMENTS

• None Today.
  

MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORT:Bed rest, scary scans, OHSS, and a host of other reasons why these bloggers could use some additional support right now. Also, celebrations!

• Chris at Love, Hope, and Faith could use some support right now. Though they retrieved 9, only 3 embryos are still dividing. She is keeping zen and transferring all three. Please go wish her good luck for transfer.
• Very good appointment for Bea at Infertile Fantasies. Go breathe a sigh of relief with her.
  

PREGNANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Kami's betas are doubling in under 30 hours! Go over and celebrate with her.
• Mrs. Planner has a second line. Go over to That Was the Plan and give her congratulations. She's keeping cool and calm right now.
• Chili is no longer waiting on two pink lines (get it?)...she got a positive. Go over and wish her congratulations.
  

BIRTH AND ADOPTION ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Kelly at The Craziness We Call Life had her second child--a daughter named Ashley--on October 6. Go over and wish her congratulations.