I had to add this today.....

I found this on an infertility blog.....

Why we do it in the first place:
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers

That Maternal Instinct kicks in:
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

TTC, the first year or two:
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. - Anne Lamott

It's just not happening...
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. - Louisa May Alcott

Diagnosis: Infertility
Justice divine has weighted: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. - Dante Alighieri

Our Fertile Friends:
None who have always been free, can understand the terrible, fascinating power of the hope of freedom, to those who are not free. - Pearl S. Buck

Adventures in ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology):
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." - Unknown

The 2 Week Wait:
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. - Emily Dickenson

The Positive Beta (or hpt):
Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Or the Negative:
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

And whether your journey ends with the joy of holding you precious new baby, or final acceptance and peace that it may never happen:

The Journeys End:
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. - Sarah Ban Breathnach


That just describes to a T why I keep on ttc baby#3....I am so blessed with 2 little girls, but my infertility just proves to be a challenge to me....my mind tells me "Dr's say you shouldn't get pg? We'll show them!!". And hope is what hangs at the end of the fishing line in front of me..........