Upon reading many of the posts, I am surprised how often I find little things that may point to the reason I have not been able to become pregnant since my second miscarriage (at 17 weeks), in March of '97. The first being in June of "96. After my little girl was 'born' (deceased) the placenta didn't come right away and the nurse paged the doctor who said he would be in as soon as possible. 3 hours later he arrived and pushed, pulled and prodded until he got it all out. Then he did what I assumed was a D&C while I was awake. He took this long thing with a loop or something on the end and scraped and scraped my uterus. Since then I haven't been able to become pregnant and have kept in the back of my mind that he (the doc) scarred me or something. Now I am noticing things in the posts here, my estrogen could be messed up because I am 25-30 pounds heavier than I used to be(172), and that even borderline thyroid problems could be causing it. I have asked him twice for a thyroid workup but he always says that any symptoms I have given him aren't enough to check, we wouldn't want to charge the insurance for something needless. I always think that if God wants me pregnant again then it will just happen, but I am becoming more convinced now that I should, perhaps, check into the causes a little further, by reading and questioning my doctor. He just thinks I am getting older now (42) and I may not be ovulating enough. My cycles are still normal. And, of course, I should get another doctor with which to confer. (I am not a first time mom, I have 3 children, 15, 5 and 4). Thank you for giving me some knowledge that might give me an answer. Cheryl Marian, CLC, CLE *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html