495th Issue of the LFCA

Welcome to today's edition of Connections Abound. The point of Lost and Found is to level the support playing field. When LFCA works correctly, the newest blogger with the smallest readership can receive the same level of support as the oldest blogger with the largest readership. Anyone can submit news to LFCA by clicking here.

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
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• Kirtsy'd Pick O' the Day: GAAAAAAAAAAH! Kirtsy is down yet again.
• Whoa: We are five issues away from the 500th LFCA.
• Webcast Show: Melissa from Full Circle writes: "I am working on launching a new MomTV show starting in January called "Adoption Angles". My vision is for it to be inspirational, informative and fun. Eventually I would like to have cohosts that represent fost/adopt, domestic and international adoption. Think "The View" but with way less drama. I am currently looking for guests that would be willing to share their story with our viewers. All they would need is high speed Internet, a web cam and a 1/2 hour to chat."
• Help a Support Group: Share Southern Vermont asks: "What if your favorite charity earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support the cause? Well, now it can! GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up! GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 30 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause. If you have been cheering on Share Southern Vermont from afar for the last year this is great way to support us from the comfort of your cross-country (and beyond) homes! Add the Share Southern Vermont toolbar at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/share-southern-vermont. We at SSV thank you in advance for using this toolbar to make your holiday season brighter and raise money for our cause simultaneously."
  
• Daily Update: There are currently 140 participants on the Creme de la Creme 2009 list.

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• Interview: STE is looking to interview people for a graduate school project. She writes: "I need to do a couple of short (half-hour-ish) or one longish interview (or a few 15-20ish minutes) for my qualitative class and have decided that this project will be focus on DBMs in academia, who were/are either working on graduate/PhD degrees or newly PhD-ed/employed/tenured when they experienced their loss. This is purely for practice, no publication, no obligation, and I have no professional skills whatsoever. But it would be totally anonymous and confidential. You can totally opt out at any time." Please help her out if you can.
• Forums: If you are not a member of the forums, you will not have access to the LFCA on days when we are utilizing an open thread in the forums instead of posting on this site. Any blog reader or writer can become a member of the forums by clicking here and registering. On days when we don't have the LFCA, it also follows that I'll be slow on approving new members (that whole lack of Internet access thing) so please be patient.

NEW BLOGS (started in October or November 2009)

• I am a Mommy (pg loss)
• Baby on Mind (unexplained IF)
  

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)

• Are We There Yet is celebrating her birthday on Thursday. Go sing her a little song.
• The Dragondreamer's Lair is celebrating her birthday next Sunday. Go eat a slice of cake with her.
• Liddy from the Unfair Struggle and E are celebrating their anniversary today. Go wish them congratulations.
  

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

• The Maybe Baby will be remembering Jovi and Isa on Saturday. Please keep her company this week.

LOSS ANNOUNCEMENTS

• None Today.
  

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)

• I Can Haz Bebe is sick with grief and support needs to come on the terms she has clearly stated in this post. Their adoption was disrupted when they were supposed to be going home with Liam. A simple message that you are abiding with her so she knows that she is not alone can be left at the bottom of this LFCA post so all can be collected and sent to her when she is ready to read the messages of love. Please, no platitudes or promises; just a simple message of support and love.
  
• Turia's FET with her final two embryos is on Friday. She could really use some company in the WUB.
• Peaches is scheduled for transfer on Friday.
• Hope Springs is on ICSI #2 and just heard that only one of the four eggs that were collected on Wednesday has fertilised. Transfer is scheduled for Friday afternoon, and she's waiting with great trepidation to see whether the single embryo survives the next 24 hours. This could be the last shot she gets before moving on to possible embryo donation, so positive thoughts and prayers would be very much appreciated.
  

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

• None Today.
  

PREGNANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS

• Michelle at IF Crossroads just had a positive beta after IVF#1.
  

BIRTH AND ADOPTION ANNOUNCEMENTS

• BMom brought little Kaua into the world on Friday. They are both doing great. Go wish her congratulations.
• Leslie gave birth to a daughter, Lyla, on November 27. Go wish her congratulations.
  

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