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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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10-29-2005, 01:23 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
pixies to you, your DIL and son.
I have also had a false positive, but we decided against any further testing, since we were NOT going to abort, no matter what. Figured why put ourselves through the tests, and the bills if we knew we were keeping it? And, we had NICU on standby in case something was wrong. It wasn't!
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10-29-2005, 01:36 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
SEnding pixies her way!
Kelly
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10-29-2005, 01:54 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
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Posts: 12,514
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
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10-29-2005, 02:38 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Tons and Tons of [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for you and DIL!!
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10-29-2005, 05:50 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: East Amherst, NY
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Posts: 5,128
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
I'm sure that everything will work out fine. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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10-29-2005, 08:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Posts: 21,627
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Sending pixies for you, your DIL and your son.... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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10-30-2005, 09:13 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
I also opted out of the test due to a high rate of false positives. I will keep your family in my thoughts.
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10-30-2005, 10:22 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Jan, I am a Labor and Delivery nurse and what Marnie said is absolutely, positively the truth! The chances of the test being a false positive result are far greater than the chances of it being accurate. The odds are on your side that everything will be just fine. Tons of [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] and [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] to you guys. Please let us know.
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10-30-2005, 11:30 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MD
Posts: 2,038
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
It means so much to me to have such caring friends here at the PassPorter Message Boards......Thank You ALL for your support, and Pixies.
I will keep you posted. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img]
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10-30-2005, 01:43 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Oh, good luck! I know you are worrried. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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10-30-2005, 08:31 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 4,812
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Here is some pixie dust for the baby
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And a big hug for you [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img]
Maggie
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10-31-2005, 04:59 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,797
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
As a lab tech, I can tell you that of all the positive screens that I've seen, we've only had a couple babies that proved to have abnormalities. The tests are only screens, based on hormone levels, dates (often inexact), mothers weight, race, history,number of fetuses....all thrown together and used to calculate increased RISK for abnormalities only. I'm sure it's scary for you but the odds are on your side that the baby is just fine!
Here are some more pixies for you and your family! Hope everything works out for you. Please let us know what you find out!
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10-31-2005, 07:59 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,893
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
I had those tests come in abnormal and needed the ultrasounds for both my kids, and my girls were fine. So there's no need to worry just yet. Here are some pixies that all is well.
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10-31-2005, 08:59 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Connecticut Shoreline
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 8,250
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Re: Pixies Needed for G-baby to be.......
Sending more [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] your way.
KathyL
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10-31-2005, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: Pixes Needed for G-baby to be.......
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I'm sorry Jan [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] Is that the test they do at 18 or 20 weeks? If so, it usually has a high rate of "false positives". I never took the test precisely for that reason (and my doctor advised me as well that his wife with all 3 kids had a positive test results but upon further tests, everything was fine).
I'm hoping the same is true for your DIL [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img]
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Exact same thing with me! My doctor advised me against taking it too (first child) and with my second (diff doctor) I had to keep telling them that I did not want the test. Too many false positives.
One of my coworkers took the test and had a negative finding. Did the amnio and there were no problems!
Pixies!
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