TTC Pity Party - here, now. Free entry. All welcome!

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I'm holding a pity party. Come and join the fun!

Fed up of TTC? Bored of DTD when you would really rather watch Downton Abbey? Sick of feeling envious of other people's bumps, births and babies? Wishing that you could break an egg without doing a mental comparison with your cervical fluid? ("wow so it's supposed to be THAT stretchy!?") Starting to wonder if a BFP and the whole pregnancy thing is actually a myth put about by storks who were getting run off their feet with baby orders?

ME TOO!

Please join me. What's driving you crazy about this whole TTC malarkey? Personally I am getting sick to the back teeth of it and mostly feeling really, really exhausted by thinking about BABIES ALL THE TIME!

Anyone else?

I'm too tired on a Monday morning to think of anything witty to say but this has made me laugh! After over a year and one mc I know exactly how you feel.

Oh good! Glad it's not just me... Though there was something poetic about throwing a pity party and having no one else turn up!

TTC is a bit crap really isn't it?!

This morning I am enjoying trying to diarise when we might be able to DTD this week. So romantic!

Oh there's absolutely nothing romantic about ttc in our house (at least for me)! I'm constantly counting days and trying to assess whether I can risk not having sex for another day .

HAHA this made me laugh!

18 months of TTC im definitely fed up and feeling sorry for myself!

Can I attend! The whole thing is just shit and we've only been trying for 3 months BUT I'm on cd68 now so we're not even getting the frigging chance to get pregnant. So many years avoiding a mistake and now I'm desperate. Gah!

Also just spent a good 5 minutes under the strong kitchen light trying to work out if my boobs were more veiny before concluding it's the shadow of hair. Thank you rubbish body for not only not having a normal cycle but also throwing out lovely feminine traits such as weird body hair.

The pity is at monumental proportions tonight!

Ps mistake was a crap word to use there, avoiding a lovely little baby which I would have loved to bits but wasn't ready for.

Haha, it is good to hear others feel the same. I feel a bit like making a baby has become a project that we can't see the end of! Just started my period (sigh...) and feel like I'd have better odds buying lottery tickets at the moment. WHY did no one ever tell me how difficult this was?!

because no one wants to tell people their private stuff I guess.

Im going to tell everyone how hard it was when I finally get pg!!

I'll join!
Only in my first month, came off pill 21st August and still waiting for af

Feeling mega down!

I'm joining! Just spent the last day telling myself an attack of the shits and vomiting (apologies ladies) might mean I'm getting that bfp. Yeah, it's not food poisoning at all.

I hate the waiting and endless symptom checking every month.

Ill join. Only on cd 3 ( 1 chemical pg) im sick of thinking about it!
Im also fed up of being a poas addict!

Just entered the ttw and already im imagining symptoms even thought I know its impossible to have any yet.

Also why does the ttw feel like an eternity!

I think time does actually slow down in the TWW. Its basically the theory of relativity, right? I'm sure that's what Einstein meant...

Camry - love the mental image of you examining your boobs for more veins. Hilarious symptom spotting is an entry requirement of the pity party.

How's this for pathetic evidence of total insanity: I saw an advert for incontinence pads and even THAT reminded me of having babies. I was like "awww, you only need those if you don't look after your pelvic floor when you've had about 4 babies... why can't it be ME?!". Crazy.

I hate the fact that I can't stop thinking about this and just to be clear I am very much planning on keeping my pelvic floor good and strong!

Oh and I would very much like to be able to click my fingers and be instadiffed. Thank you very much!

I'm gate crashing the pity party! Cycle 7 ttc #1 and we found out a couple of months ago that dh has low sperm count. It's very tough. Ttc really not romantic here either, especially this month. Not been in the mood for it once, but we managed days 9, 12, 14, 16 and 19. On day 21 now and enjoying some respite!

Yep, 18 months TTC, two mcs and about to turn 40. Pretty depressing stuff. 5dpo and feeling out already.

And every stomach twinge is implantation tweaks? Me too, though thus far it's clearly just been wind!

21 months of trying for #2 & totally fed up! Don't want to DTD no longer enjoyable. It's a co stand round of DTD at right time, 2ww then AF!

I feel like I'm surrounded by so many fertile people who easily got pg with #2 or even #3. I've thought maybe its time to give up.

*constant round I meant, silly predictive text on my phone!

Cat, haha you sound just like me! Every month I work out edd, how much leave I would take, when I'd go off on leave etc...I was so sure it would happen and I'd be having a baby early next year that I've used up almost all my holiday leaving me just a couple of days for Christmas and nothing for January, February and March. Ooops.

Poor bobsy. Have you seen your gp? Don't give up. My friend got pregnant for first time after around 30 cycles. It does happen. Worth seeing a doctor though if you haven't, just to rule anything out.

Can I come to the party please??

Dtd is just such a none event, a process, a means to an end - in my house foreplay has become 'insert preseed, roll over, begin' even been told to just lie there whilst DH gets on with it!

Cycle 6or7 for me now, trying since dec 13 with a mmc in the middle. Fed. Up x

Yes my GP made me feel worse! I had a scan earlier this year & all fine I've also had blood tests and again everything came back fine. My GP basically said its my age, I'm not producing enough eggs & the quality isn't good either so she's made me feel like I'll never conceive again.

I have officially delurked to join this party...........

Two MC's over the last two years with a couple of TTC breaks in there too, we have been firmly back on the bus since May.

I think the hardest part is not telling anyone in real life, I don't think I could cope with everyone asking if I'm pregnant yet. Also just entered the nightmare of the 2WW, crazy imagination going crazy!