Tuesday's Connections Abound

Welcome to today's edition of Connections Abound. The Face-to-Face Lost and Found page is permanently located beneath this current post. Old Connections Abound can be accessed via the date or subject archives listed on the sidebar. Check the submissions page, FAQ, and ways to get involved for additional information. Email me at thetowncriers@gmail.com with any questions/concerns.

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
New

• Bridges continues to post daily. Click over to read an original post about loss from Busted of
  Busted Babymaker.
• Question: G has questions about thin linings and whether her protocol should be changed. Head over to her blog if you can help.
• Question: Two Years and Counting has a question about doing a lap pre-IVF. If you can help, go over and answer her question, especially if you have unexplained IF.
  

Old

• Mary Update: "We saw one happy healthy beating heart today. Amazing! Everything was measuring exactly where it should be. I go back in another week to make sure things continue to progress well, but I am starting to dare to hope that this might be the one. After 9 long years you think it might be time?"
• The IComLeavWe list for August is up. Join in the conversation--it's a week of increased comments and commenting (and hopefully picking up a few new permanent readers along the way). If you still have up the old icon for July, please take it down (the red one).
• If you notice another loading slow down or receive error messages for Stirrup Queens or Lost and Found, please let me know. Now I'm nervous every time I add anything to the side bar!

NEW BLOGS (started in July or August 2008)

• None Today.
  

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES (celebrate your birthday or blogoversary with the community. Send me date at any point and I'll post them on the correct day)

• Lost and Found moved into its current space (this url) on Wednesday the 13th. That's when the LFCA began looking as it does now. Travel back through time with this first post from the current site. We published 224 editons of the LFCA here this year.
  
• Aurelia at No Matter How Small is celebrating her birthday today. Go sing her a little song.
• It's is Cali's grandmother's birthday today. Go wish her a happy birthday.
• PerchanceToDream is also celebrating her birthday today. Go have some cake with her.
  

LOSS REMEMBRANCES (send in the dates of loss anniversaries and I will post them on the correct day)

• None Today.
  

LOSS ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Shelby's Aunt Debbie died after an 11 year battle with cancer. Please go over and give the family good thoughts.
  

MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORT AND CELEBRATIONS (scary scans, anxious waits, OHSS, and a host of other reasons why these bloggers could use some additional support right now. Also, celebratory retrievals, transfers, and other good news)

• Mixing it Up had her cycle canceled due to poor response. Please go over and give her love.
• Thinking Miracles has her beta tomorrow. Go wish her luck.
• Busted’s FET is set for Friday!
• Bad news for Lemmondrops. The CT showed two new tumors in her lungs. She could use some words of comfort as she and her medical team figure out the next steps.
• Geohde needs some love after Naan returned to the hospital for a very traumatic trip.
• Reservado Para Futura Mama received a call from her social worker that a mother has expressed a lot of interest in her. They are going into talks today. Please go over and give her support.
  

BEDREST BABES: on bedrest following infertility or loss and needing support. Drop in on them and keep them company.

• BabyQuest is in the hospital on bedrest (more likely until she delivers Bub).
• Schatzi is down for the count and will be horizontal the rest of the pregnancy. Her doctor is worried about preeclampsia. She is currently in the hospital.
  
• When All Else Fails... is on bedrest due to a shortened cervix.
• Crowded Uterus Syndrome is on bedrest.
• Gas Passer is on bedrest for the rest of her pregnancy.
• JJ is on bed rest until further notice.
• No Longer Broken is on bedrest until delivery.
• Wonder Twin Power, Activate! is back on bedrest for the duration of the pregnancy.
• Rebecca at My F*cked up Uterus is on modified bedrest and due in less than a month.

PREGNANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS

• Ange had a great three month appointment with a strong heartbeat.
• Ashleigh appears to have idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and has been admitted to the hospital until she delivers. Everything is fine with the baby though and her doctors are working hard on keeping her pregnant until her platelet counts are at a safe enough level for her to deliver.
• Laura is ten weeks pregnant and everything looks good!
• Two lines for My Grasp at Sanity.
• Letting It Out is having blood pressure issues and may be facing an early delivery of the twins. She is asking for positive thoughts to be sent her way.
• Amy, blog-reader-but-not-writer, is pregnant! With great betas! Excited screaming can be left on Jen's blog for her.

BIRTH AND ADOPTION ANNOUNCEMENTS

• None Today.
  

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