Hi my name is Ashlea, I'm 28 years old. My husband and I have been married for over a year now and have been TTC for 14 months. We are now seeing a fertility specialist for 2 months now. He has 3 beautiful children with his psychotic ex girlfriend, who unfortunately only fights to have the children around for the money she gets from us and the government. And now her and her boyfriend of 7 months are pregnant again because the kids mentioned they wanted me to have a baby and she told them any baby we had would not be their sibling so she and her boyfriend started trying. The kids aren't too excited about this as they already feel like they don't exist when they are with her and they think a new baby will make it worse there because they know that their mother only likes kids when they are babies. It's all so stressful, the kids met the boyfriend and then 2 weeks later he moved in and the kids started acting out, he told the 4 year old who his mother had babied (wouldn't allow him to use the potty or drink out of anything but a bottle and had never slept on his own there) that he needed to take his iPhone that has games on it shut up and go to his room because his mommy was his now. Their mother gets them at 5:30 every night, takes them home and sends them to bed at 7 and won't do anything with them. It's heartbreaking to me and it's frustrating that she's pregnant yet again when she has 3 kids she doesn't care about and she had 2 others that she aborted because she didn't know who the fathers were and didn't want to deal with finding out and I'm over here not being able to get pregnant no matter what we try. Sorry it's all frustrating me today as I head to yet another appointment with the specialist. I hope all the other stepmommies out there have a great day!