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How do you deal with the emotional rollercoaster? :-(

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VJONES1985 · 13/08/2013 10:33

Okay, I'm brand new to this and I realise many of you will be rolling your eyes at this because your journey has been longer than mine. Perhaps I don't have the 'right' to be talking about emotional ups and downs after only two weeks but I think something we all have in common is the feeling of worry,fear, disappointment.

How have you dealt with these feelings so far? Any advice for newbies like me?

Today I'm convinced I'm not going to ovulate this month because I'm on cd12 with no signs of it, but yesterday I was sure it'd all be fine. Last week, I just knew it'd take months of pain to conceive but this week I don't quite think so. How do I stop myself going mad? I get so jealous of friends with babies!!

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VJONES1985 · 13/08/2013 11:20

Same. And it's a shame because it shouldn't be prescribed and stressful like that but we have to hold onto the fact that some day, some how, we will get there.

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RaRaZ · 13/08/2013 10:50

Same here. I'm on my 4th month and it's killing me. I don't know. I'm ok for the first two weeks of my cycle, but then I've started getting terrible PMS a couple of days after ovulation, so I'm weepy and ratty and depressed and angry and can't see any way forward. And then AF starts and I just think it's never gonna happen. I've resolved to have 'accidental' babies in future: to just not use contraception and let nature take its course when it will. I'd do that now, but we're so desperate to have a kid that I'm all charting and OPKs and prescribed sex Hmm.

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