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.

@zoomies1

Yep, I’ll 2nd that up yours

Up yours to all of these comments

Up yours to my body making me thinking I'm pregnant and then getting my period at odd times.

Up yours to anyone who thinks I am too old at 42.

Up yours to the empty spare room in our new house, next to my baby's and earmarked for number two

I LOVE this thread, totally agree with these; especially the 'staying in a shitty job' and the handbag piss-pot, (mine is a Disney Olaf cup, had to tell DD she can't drink out of it anymore 🙈).

My few to add:

• up yours to my mother, complaining about not yet finishing the menopause and announcing that she thinks all women should just stop being fertile at 30, because by then they've had plenty of time to make babies 🤬🤯🤬
• up yours to cancelling social plans because you're due to ovulate, then not DTD because he's ill or working
• up yours to the best friend who conceived as soon as she stared trying
• up yours to the storage unit that charge me a fortune every month to look after all of DD's baby things, that I can't get rid of, just in case
• up yours to my partner for being totally oblivious to how upset ttc makes me
• up yours to my boss for causing so much stress I think it's affecting my ovulation
• up yours to everyone that raises their eyebrows if ever I mention feeling slightly nauseous

But mostly....

• up yours to my crappy body for not doing what I want it to.

Up yours to waking up early on a Saturday in agony and knowing AF has shown her ugly face and knowing that you won't go back to sleep so not only will you be in pain all day you'll be knackered too.

Well that’s a mother load of up yours to ttc. We’re open 24/7 so keep em coming. My fave I’ve read today is from @30somethingandtired and her abducted frozen piss pot 😂

Just popping in for a quick up yours to the fact that I've just got a positive OPK, a week late, on the one night we're staying at our in-laws and sharing a room with our DC. FACEPALM x infinity.

Just what I need!

Up yours to feeling stuck in a rut with TTC No 2

Up yours to my husbands performance issues which make me so frustrated yet I know I'm just being selfish

Up yours to having only successfully managed sex once, to completion during the right window in the last 8 months

Up yours to having been off the pill since last November to make sure it was 'well out my system' for TTC after our wedding but now wondering why we waited

Up yours to the horrendous guilt when my DD for the first time ever last week (she's only 2) said "mummy can I have a baby sister" - floored me

Up yours to the constant watching of Emma Willis delivering babies, OBEM repeat episodes and crying watching all the babies

Up yours to feeling like a failure

A big fat up yours to "at least you can get pregnant" after a pretty traumatic medically managed missed miscarriage.
Up yours to the apprehension of when to try again because, after two miscarriages, I need to ready myself to potentially cope with another one first.
And a teeny, tiny up yours to BIL & his girlfriend for announcing their pregnancy at the same time as my miscarriage (muddled in with a lot of happiness for them, they didn't know I was miscarrying and they are lovely, but I am jealous, which makes me feel like a terrible person).

Up yours to the eager look of "I'm waiting for news" when you meet up with people you don't see regularly.

Up yours to the feelings of guilt when you get angry/sad/pissed off at other people's announcements.

Up yours to GPS that don't make having a basic knowledge of fertility issues their priority

Up yours to the women who claim they "weren't even trying" but obviously were on the DL.

Up yours to the gut wrenching fear that you'll have to continue to go through heartbreak for who knows how long.

And lastly up yours to the people you trust enough to confide in about losses that can't be brave/bothered enough to talk to you about how you're feeling.

Joining in myself today.

Up yours to a miscarriage at 5 weeks after 9 months of ttc #2

Up yours to my former self who actually had no comprehension of what a MC would feel like, even in the very early stages.

Up yours to the DPs who are ttc with you but really don't understand how invested you and your body and psyche are in the process. They just try to lighten the mood by joking about how great it is to be having loads of sex...

@ChefWifeLife sorry about your MC

@FatAndFurious7 thank you. Ttc is a prick isn’t it.

💯 agree with your up yours. Men/partner/SO just don’t get it!

Up yours to not being able to give my DD the sibling she’s asking for.

Up yours to telling myself to focus on everything else this month and not managing it.

Up yours to the MNers who post really bloody obvious BFPs and ask for people to look at their ‘squinters’.

Up yours to staring at tests and willing them to turn positive.

Oh @Chefwifelife I'm so, so sorry. How utterly shit after trying for so long. Hope you are being kind to yourself.

Up yours to the steroids, various supplements and daily injections I'm having to take, and the multiple OPKs each day...

Meanwhile, up yours to the fact that DH only has one (seemingly straightforward) job to do but often he can't/won't manage it.

Up yours to another month passing me by without even a glimmer of hope for a BFP.

Up yours to the women whose partners are always up for it - I so wish mine was, but after 3 MCs, TTC is not quite the same.

Up yours to the MNers who post really bloody obvious BFPs and ask for people to look at their ‘squinters’.

^this

I have to physically stop myself from writing sarky comments on the obvious gloaty smug BFP posts- to be honest I think they're just fucking stupid that they don't know how to read a pregnancy test instruction

Funniest ones are the digital tests ones and you get some dumb so and so asking if it could be a false positive 🤔

Also up yours to the "am I pregnant" posts - unprotected 🍆 = 🤰 - I'm not bloody psychic - take a damn test!

Today it is...

• Up yours to Facebook showing me adverts for prams and cots every 2 minutes.
• Up yours to my DP, snoring away while I swear I am ovulating. WAKE UP!!!!!

Also, just found out my hairdresser is pregnant. Happy for her but rather selfishly I'm already thinking about months of appointments with my eyes at her bump height, followed by months of shit hair because she's on mat leave. Totally selfish I know, but need a safe place to grumble.

• Up yours to the stupid fucking scratch line on the FRER I took this morning right where the line would be, making it impossible so making out the faint line which I think I made up in my head
• Up yours to my friend whose baby shower I went to at the weekend (I really considered not going as I was so down about it as she had conceived ‘by accident’) who didn’t seem fussed about being pregnant and seemed truly ungrateful for all the gorgeous presents she received... mine included
• Up yours to your brain tricking you into thinking you’re pregnant at the end of your TTW, when you are pretty certain you’re not.. and you have pissed of shit loads of sticks and will still continue too...

I needed to see this and I actually had a good cry. Thanks ladies.
Up yours to BFN!!!
Up yours to the comments “it’ll happen when the time is right”
Hang in there everyone.

It’s only Tuesday but we still have a rocket load of our yours to shove up ttc ass. Come on ladies; offload!

Up yours to the (actually quite nice) lady at work who jokingly asked me if I’d consider a second child. (The assumption being that with a gap more than 3 years we must have only wanted 1 child)

Up yours to not being able to sensibly plan finances because I can’t get out of my head “but what if I’m on maternity leave”

Up yours to my massive commute. (I’ve already complained about not moving jobs because of maternity rights. A 2 hour commute sucks)

Oh, and I forgot:
Up yours to symptom spotting. I hate that I will almost certainly not be able to stop myself POAS tomorrow.

Up yours to early testing, getting that faint but there positive and then AF showing 2 days later and then repeating this cycle on the next cycle and pissing on £40-50 worth of sticks each month.