A whole load of “up yours” to ttc

[Chefwifelife]

I saw a post like this on a non conception board and thought it was quite funny and cathartic so I thought I’d start one.

I’ve got a whole bag of “up yours” to the trying to conceive process. Who wants one?! I’ll start.

Up yours to 10 months of ttc #2 and everyone telling me it’s quicker the second time around as your body knows what to do.

Up yours to indent lines on one step tests and frer’s

Up yours to people telling me to “relax and it will happen”.

Up yours to the age gap which is quickly getting bigger and bigger between DS1 and potential DC2.

That’s me done.

Chefwifelife

I’m glad my username makes you smile.

Up yours to carrying a hairspray lid in my bag so I can piss in it and test on an OPK but I'm effectively just carrying a piss pot everywhere with me.
Up yours to waking up and temping EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Up yours to looking at the tissue for blood every time I go to the toilet.
Up yours to the dreams where I've had a baby and then I wake up and it isn't real.

Up yours to having to pretend you're drinking at a wedding or having to come up with excuses why you're not. Only to be met with excitable coos of friends assuming you're already pregnant...

Up yours to the TWW where you over analyse everything you eat, drink and do even when you're trying desperately not to.

Up yours to uncontrollably bursting into tears because your friends announce their bfps and pretending its because you're excited for them.

Up yours to taking supplements every day for nearly a year just incase you fall pregnant this cycle.

Up yours to both sets of parents not having any grandchildren yet and piling on insane amounts of pressure that we're their only hope.. even if they dont mean to

Loving this thread!

Up yours to three unexplained miscarriages.

Up yours to the lack of understanding/sympathy over miscarriages, even from close friends and family.

Up yours to people feeling awkward when you talk about miscarriage. It's not a shameful taboo!

Up yours to over a year of secondary infertility.

Up yours to pressure and performance anxiety making TTC so hard and stressful every month.

Up yours to the strain of multiple miscarriages and infertility on my marriage.

Up yours to the steroids, aspirin and Clexane injections I'm having to take every month even though they might not be doing anything.

Up yours to the fact that I don't seem to have ovulated at all this month.

Up yours to the age gap between DC1 and a sibling getting longer and longer every month.

Up yours to being stuck in a miserable job for years because I'm too worried to move and lose my maternity rights/pay.

Up yours to everyone who has such an easy time of getting/staying pregnant.

There! Feel a bit better now.

Thanks OP and everyone.

Up yours to not meeting DP til I was 37 and up yours to TTC for 2nd one at over 40.

Ah ladies there are some right beauts in there. My fave of yesterday has to go to @MrsN2121 for her hairspray piss pot. Actually made me lol.

@waitingforarainbow I’m so sorry to hear about your shitty crappy unfair miscarriages. Why people can’t say. Wow that sounds really crap. If you want to talk I’m here..... I don’t know. I try and do that with all my friends or patients who tell me about mc.

I have a crate full of more up your to ttc today. So throw them out there and breath 😊

Up yours organising things and thinking ' by the time this dinner party/holiday/birthday comes I will definitely be pregnant, because it's ages away, then the event comes and I am not. Extra up you points if someone else announces their surprise pregnancy at said dinner party, with a 'we weren't trying but we're delighted.'

Up yours to my brother and his wife talking about having a sibling for their 7 month old 2 months after my miscarriage

Up yours to people telling me loads of women have babies into their 40's, I'm 37 and already struggling

Up yours to the time we wasted waiting for my partners divorce

Up yours to the false hope googling has given me after my miscarriage about being more fertile, bullshit!!

Up yours to AF

Up yours to miscarriage and how taboo it is

Up your to having all male management team at work how had no idea how to talk to me during my MMC

Up yours being made to believe conception is so easy

Up your to all of it.....and breath x

Absolutely up yours to the we weren’t trying brigade. The majority of people want children so I think it should be quite obvious that those in their late 30s and early 40s are trying, and are at higher risk of infertility and miscarriage.

I'm not convinced that those that say they weren't trying actually weren't.

Fair play to you, sometimes you can get too caught up in all the opinions. However well meant, opinions are, as someone famous once said, like ar$eholes, everyone has one....
I will simply wish you good luck. x

This is such a pleasant change from the “can you see a line” threads.

Up yours to the woman at work who asks me every day "are you pregnant yet?"

Up yours to another woman at work who tells me all the time "you should have a baby" I'm trying!!!!

Up yours to everyone who says "just relax it will happen"

Up yours fo everyone who says "if it's meant to be it will be"

Up yours to everyone on my social media who is pregnant

Up yours to the hundreds of negative pregnancy tests I have taken

Up yours to not being able to achieve the only thing in the world I have ever wanted

@Chefwifelife Thank you so much. Miscarriage is shit, and that really is all you want people to say. 'That's so shit. I'm sorry. How are you feeling? Do you want to talk about it?' Maybe it's because it was my third time going through it, but I found people forgot very quickly and never mentioned it again, when actually I would quite like to talk about it sometimes.

Additional up yours to the mum I saw yesterday who was taking her 11 month old to nursery. I looked down and she was heavily pregnant! Slightly mean personal up yours there (especially as I don't know her circumstances), but hey, she'll never know! LOL.

Enjoying reading everyone else's up yours. Happy venting, everyone! x

Lol thanks @Chefwifelife 😂 i hate it but still carry it around every month to test!
Absolutely loving this thread, reassured me that I'm not the only one trying my hardest to get preggers!! Sending gd vibes to everyone. X

This is such a good idea...

Up yours to stupid runs/indents on one step tests

Up yours to stupid false positives on frers

Up yours to having to try and schedule sex

Up yours to trying to figure out when you ovulate because every cycle has been different

Up yours to the questions 'when are you having a baby' not knowing we've already been trying for 4-5 months

Up yours to my current 40 day cycle!

Oh there's a lot of positives on here at the moment. I'm feeling a little envious

This has made me smile today and to be honest I've been avoiding the general conception board and sticking to infertility one lately so I'm glad I came by!

Up yours to the friend that moaned on and on about how awful her pregnancy sickness was despite me telling her we had zero chance of conceiving naturally and had been refered for IVF and a bigger up yours for being a dick when I said I'd love to be able to experience morning sickness!

Up yours to the countless money I've literally pissed away on opks and tests before we knew we couldn't actually make babies!

Up yours to the people that tell me constantly that they know a girl who was referred for fertility treatment and got pregnant before the appointment. Lucky bloody her!!!

Up yours to the people who ask how much fertility treatment costs, they are after a monetary figure, but the cost is so so much more than that.

Up yours to the people who look at their other half and get pregnant!!

Ahh I feel much better now :)

And another great day of up yours to ttc. It’s a super free for all Friday tomorrow where many an up yours will be available!

A couple more from me today as AF has just arrived.

Up yours to Facebook that seems to think I want to see every single ad related to pregnancy and babies!

Up yours to waiting months to get my coil removed as I’d heard loads of stories of people getting pregnant straight away but clearly not me!

Really needed this today!

Up yours to doing everything right for years, taking the pill religiously, being utterly safe sex sensible at all times, then coming off the pill to not a sniff of a BFP in sight 10 months later

Up yours to every single one of my female friends either getting pregnant or having a baby in the first 3 months of us trying - definitely not utterly dismaying at all!

Up yours to anyone who tells me to just relax. You just relax.

Up yours to being fobbed off with ‘its PCOS, you just have none of the symptoms’

Up yours to putting life on hold

Up yours to feeling guilty about every glass of wine

Up yours to ‘we weren’t even trying!’

Up yours to vitamins

Up yours to snake oil salespeople of the internet

Arghhhhhhh thank you and good night.

Me too. Supposedly I’m fertile window but no OPK yet (unless I’ve missed it). Up sours to sex being clinical and booked in for certain times.

So true about the targeted ads thing.. the last thing I constantly want to see is where my local NCT classes are and beautiful baby grows and toys all over the internet!

Also, many have already said it but I want one too - up yours to the 'it was a surprise! We weren't even trying' knobs who act charmingly clumsy and blasé about the whole thing and say things like 'I'll probably put the nappies on backwards!' Oh how delightfully fucking funny you are..

Up yours to having to have sex with DH even after he has really p*ssed me off because I've just had a positive OPK!

Love this thread! Agree with so many of these.
Up yours to trying for over year and getting my hopes up every feckin month!
Up yours to waiting, waiting for the fertile week, the tww, for gp appointments, for test results, for fertility clinic appointments...agggggghhhh all the waiting UP YOURS!!!
Thanks, feel much better now