Anyone need to join for a rant?

[Jurassiclover]

Is TTC making anyone else feel very irritable and ranty at the min?

Everytime I see a negative test it's driving me more and more insane!!

Anyone else need a rant? Please feel free to join and rant with me. What are your TTC pet peeves?

I'm sick of negative tests and sick of symptoms and sick of TWW!!!! I wish TTC was as easy as sex education in school made it out to be 😂

sick of having to plan when to have sex
Sick of seeing friends pregnancy announcements on social media
Sick of squinting so hard in an attempt to see the a line

Yep 🙋🏼‍♀️ so sick of the stress TTC causes, literally had three pregnancy announcements from close friends/family in the last week.. and many others pregnant at the moment too, I'm so happy for them... I just wish they wouldn't rub it in my face about how it was an accident and they didn't even know they were pregnant or how it happened the first month of TTC 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@thunderandsunshine01 oh yes sick of the pregnancy announcements, so many people in my department at work have been announcing pregnancies! Also definitely agree with being sick of squinting, I've now taken to shining a torch through the back of tests and even sometimes opening them.... What is wrong with me

@Katnissx the accidental ones really are so hard to handle aren't they! Especially when you feel you're putting 110% effort in and getting nothing back!

Same here. Fed up of scheduled sex, fed up of OPKs, fed up of the first 2 weeks of my cycle when you cant even do anything and dont even have symptoms to spot, fed up of spotting before AF, fed up of announcements, fed up of just waiting and feeling in limbo. Fed up of forgetting how things used to beso chilled and stress free before TTC xx

@Trying2019 I feel you!! I feel so fed up with it all recently!xx

@jurassiclover i was the same last month Absolutely hit rock bottom. This cycle i felt so much better. Thought i might have had an implantation bleed so had hope for first time ever but started AF now. Weirdly feel like im getting closer though. Just fed up of waiting for ovulation x

We're newly married and people have asked when we'll be having children. We've only been ttc for 3 months and I've had a chemical pregnancy. We didn't tell many people because the stock answers seem to be "wasn't meant to be" / "must have been for the best"

Sex education at school implied you will get pregnant the very second you have sex. Oh if only it was so easy!

@Trying2019 it's just so disheartening when you're doing everything right and it still doesn't happen! I also thought I'd had an implantation bleed this month but then my AF has just decided to rock up today early so no idea what my spotting was last week!x

@CurbsideProphet the stock answers although they come from a good place are so frustrating aren't they! We had a MC first month of TTC and I'm sick of people telling me "it wasn't the right time" 😔

I genuinely think sex education at school drilled it so much into me that'd I'd be pregnant the first time I had unprotected sex! I wish that was the case!!

Thinking of ordering myself some pre-seed for next cycle

@Jurassiclover I'm sorry about your miscarriage It's rubbish

I don't know why people think they're the right sort of things to say. I don't know when it was agreed that it's comforting to tell a woman that it's for the best that her pregnancy as ended.

DH and I were discussing at the weekend how starting ttc has made us properly realise that there is a very small window for getting pregnant. Could have saved myself some stress in my twenties if I'd realised that sooner!

I’m sick of everyone else getting pregnant the first time they try. I’m also fed up because I feel a bit trapped in my job. The maternity is great where I work so unless something comes up internally I feel like I need to stay put.

@Jurassiclover i have never had blood at that stage in my cycle before. So im taking it as a positive that at least something seems to be happening. Got all my blood tests this month so least ill get some peace of mind or answers

@peachypetite i know im happy for people when it doesnt take long but they dont understand how horrible it is month after month x

@CurbsideProphet sorry to hear about your chemical as well!

Yeah I don't know why we all decided it was the right thing to say!

Yeah I always wondered why when I missed a few contraceptive pills I never ended up PG but now I realise it's bloody hard work!

@peachypetite I know the exact feeling of the job!! Waiting on hearing a final job offer for a new job but that'd mean I may no longer qualify for maternity pay if I took new job and then conceived quickly! Feel stuck as I can't decide weather to be careful this cycle or just to stuff it and continue to TTC and deal with maternity situation as and when I need to!

@Trying2019 yeah me too! Fingers crossed it is a good sign! Ah good luck, hopefully the blood results have some answers for you or peace of mind 🤞

Hi @Jurassiclover. First of all I'm so sorry to hear about your MC :(. Thank you for starting this thread! I really need to rant! We have been TTC #2 for 11 months now.

I'm so sick of scheduled DTD
sick of OPK
sick of TWW and then being late then do HPT only to see a BFN.
sick of people keep saying, "just relax and it will happen". Well I can't!
sick of people saying, "you should be grateful for your DS". I mean of course I love our DS so dearly and I feel extremely lucky but does that mean I'm not allowed to have the desire to have another one???

Oh that feels much better! Thank you OP for the thread!

I really do hope we will all have our BFP soon! x

Yes sick of if. Sick of not being able to just see what is going on inside me. Sick of ovulation sticks and pregnancy announcements from other people and finding time to DTD. But most of all I’m fed up of the age gap between my first baby and potential second baby increasing. Now it will be over 3 years and I’m so so sad about that.

@Mrssendy omg I feel you so so much with the whole AF being late and still getting BFN! Just seems so cruel of the body to do that! I'm glad a rant made you feel better though! It's helped me a lot, I've tried ranting about to DP but he just says "it'll happen one day" 🙄 I'm hoping we get BFPs soon too!x

@Needallthesleep yes! I think it's so hard being so stuck with all these unknowns and just not knowing what's going on inside there! Oh the age gap thing must be so frustrating, especially when you have everything planned a certain way! I hope you get your BFP soon!