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The latest with our missing third child

Many of our family members know that we are struggling to have a third child. After two years of trying, two miscarriages, and still no child, I took a few tests and started looking into it. I'm still not sure what I am willing to do and how much I want to mess with things, but the initial testing seems pretty harmless.  So far I was just taking my temperature to track my ovulation and went in for a blood draw to make sure my hormones were normal. My temperature wasn't changing as it should and when we got the blood work back it said I'm not ovulating at all. I have no idea why that would happen but I do know that it's not normal.  I went in to see a new doctor, because mine was gone for about a month and I am TIRED of waiting. Well the new doctor sucked. She basically said that she won't give me medication to make me ovulate because I have been pregnant 4 times in the past 5 years, so I don't have a problem getting pregnant. And there is no treatment tha

Calvin is 3

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Another birthday for Calvin marking great success and growth this year. He is talking a lot more now and we have been calling him Repeater. Everything we say he copies and he's learning new phrases all the time. It's funny how we begged him to talk for so long and now he won't stop talking. We are so grateful that he is developing and learning all the time. Over the past 6 months he has become more obsessed with trucks, construction, trains, and anything with wheels. He loves to watch a show called Mighty Machines, which is real construction videos with lots of trucks. For fun, we take him to a construction site where they are working and he will just watch. It's cheap entertainment and his favorite thing to do. For those of you who have been following his head charts with me for the last three years, you'll be happy to know that his head growth is still out of this world, but he's still doing really well. Since the charts don't go up high enough fo