Things only TTCers will understand (swearing expected)

feeling like a fool for dilligently taking bc for 15 years!

all those who get pg accidentally must be really f*ing relaxed!!

Every time you get invited to an event happening later in the year, your thought process is: a) are you free that weekend? Immediately followed by b) if you conceived this month how far along will you be when the event happens. This! Its so frustrating and then you get to said event and think 'how stupid was I to think that I might have actually been pregnant by now'

This thread is great!

Had said SIL's baby shower, a special kind of hell. People asking when I'm having another as DD is 2.7 and not knowing whether to smile and nod or say ooh maybe one day or be honest and say actually we've been trying for 18 months and I had my first appointment at the infertility clinic this week.

The Kim K thing has given me hope, bizarre I know.

Gee whizz, I hadn't realised I'm almost 40! Don't know how the good fuck that just slipped by me all this time. Thank fucking god you came along to point it out to us mother/MIL

When people say "time for another, is it? " I'm bloody working on it!

When DP phone to say he's on a training course in X place and has to stay X nights and you immediately check your diary to see what cd you'll be on.

I'm another who is invited somewhere and immediately thinks ooh how pregnant could I be by then

Ah! I have found my people! I too have am accidentally preg SIL. BIL is unbearable in his flippant smugness. Oh, we have all this to come, do we? Oh, you're jokingly offering us your unwanted child? You're soooooo fucking hilarious.

Reading a headline "The most cycle- friendly cities in the world" and immediately assuming it's referring to ovulation.

Oh, and having (another) reason to hate Kim Kardashian now. Even she'll probably start banging on about how she and Kanye relaxed and it just happened!!

Every time you get invited to an event happening later in the year, your thought process is: a) are you free that weekend? Immediately followed by b) if you conceived this month how far along will you be when the event happens.

Having a shitty day at work, start imagining what it will be like to go on maternity leave and let someone else have to pick up the stress for once!

And the soul destroying feeling when you reach the last pee stick of your bag of 20 internet cheapies, which you laughingly bought thinking you'd only need one or two but might as well buy the bulk lot because it would be fun to keep testing and seeing the positive lines grow stronger as your pregnancy progressed. Never happened.

AND the fixed grin and 'Hmm yeah maybe I'll try that' noises you make when yet another friend tells you about someone they knew who had been ttc for years, and as soon as they relaxed they fell pregnant. So that's what you need to do. Just RELAX AND YOULL GET PREGNANT!!!!

Looking at a very obvious negative pregnancy test and holding it up to the light, squinting at it, shining a light on it trying to make out a line then throwing it away in disgust then digging it out the bin half an hour later in the hope that something miraculous has happened and there's a line on it.

Can I add to that - digging it out of the bin an hour later, and there's the faintest of faint lines. Spend the next hour googling evaporation lines, and trying to photograph the line that only shows up in certain light and weirdly not on the photograph.

Posting that photo on canyouseealine.com anyway, and resting your hopes on the 'votes' of complete strangers.

And finally accepting that it's all a figment of your imagination.

Comfort eating and piling on the pounds to console every time AF arrives, and then people asking "do you have exciting news?!" No, I'm just a bit chubby and also, mind your own business!

When for the second month in a row you've not been able to get much shagging in on the right few days, because life's a bit too busy and stressful, even though you know a baby won't make itself.
I don't need to chill out I need to be superwoman and not need sleep...

There's obv something about SIL! Mine accidentally 'messed up her pill' and got preg straight away within a fortnight. 7 weeks of obsessively waiting for ov post deliberately coming off my implant this seems a trifle ...
Ditto the POAS angling. Forcing self not to look (whilst looking at it an inch from face)

Another one here with a SIL pg first month of trying.

Oh God. I totally understand all of these. Especially the "accidents" and the "we weren't even trying" comments.

I particularly hate the constant advice about "you need to make sure you don't focus on your career too much and wake up and realise you want kids". Erm...well I actually realised many years ago...and I'm only 30 you tw*t.

normally the whole 'the pill failed' or 'the condom broke'. me and oh have been together 6 years n have managed not to have 'an accident'!

I will second the 'just stop thinking about it for a few months and it will happen'.

Getting pregnant by accident, how does that happen? Did they fall on it?????

people who get pregnant 'by accident'
'just relax and have fun' im trying for a baby how am i supposed to relax!

Looking at a very obvious negative pregnancy test and holding it up to the light, squinting at it, shining a light on it trying to make out a line then throwing it away in disgust then digging it out the bin half an hour later in the hope that something miraculous has happened and there's a line on it. There never fucking is, not once.

youngoldmum I feel your pain.

My SIL asked if I could keep pram in my house til baby arrives