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" I love a fresh start.   Saturday morning when I changed all the calendars in my house to show the 31 days of March, I found myself humming a feel-good ditty.  I can&amp;#039;t really give you a reason other than the simple fact it was indeed a fresh start.  No, we don&amp;#039;t have any treatments planned this month, and there&amp;#039;s not a chance I&amp;#039;m pregnant by surprise since I am struggling not pop Advil every hour for the terrible cramps that are lingering.  There is something therapeutic about any new beginning \u2014 to know that you can let go of the old, and let in the new. When we did our first treatment in March of last year, I counted the days until my period was over so we could start a new cycle, doing an intrauterine insemination. It just so happened that the 1st day of the month, was also cycle day 1. How convenient, right? Less worrying for me to count the days until I ovulated \u2014 I just looked up at my calendar!  The big day came: I got a positive on my ovulation prediction test, and called to schedule the procedure. I remember every detail about that day \u2014 how hopeful we both were that this was a fresh start for us! We had more information about the diagnosis we were given, and thought we had a great shot (excuse the pun) at getting pregnant! As I looked up to see March 27th staring at me from my calendar, I knew that my reliable 28-day-cycle was about to give me an answer either way. I sat at my desk and prodded my boobs as inconspicuously as possible, pleading them to be sore. I begged nausea to take over, forcing me to puke into my trash can.  On March 29th, it was yet again cycle day 1. The IUI had not been successful, and we were both heart broken ... we had to start all over. So there I was again \u2014 a new beginning. It was harder to be back at that fresh start after hoping for a &amp;quot;new kind&amp;quot; of beginning.  So now a year later, it&amp;#039;s hard to look back and feel that we are at the same place. Even the months that we haven&amp;#039;t done treatments, we still hold onto that hope....that maybe, just maybe I won&amp;#039;t have to start fresh. But the nice thing about an ending, is there is always a beginning. Infertility has taken a lot from me, but one thing it hasn&amp;#039;t won out on is the test of time, and the thrill I get of changing my calendar to mark a fresh start!    Maybe you&amp;#039;ve just had a failed cycle, or you simply had a bad day \u2014 what helps you feel so fresh, and so clean?   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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