Hi All,
I’m 32 soon to be 33 in a couple of months and just started TTC. We are only on cycle 2. Cycle one I think I’d already ovulated when we DTD but cycle 2 I tracked with OPKs. I’ve been pregnant before by accident when i was 17 but I felt I was too young and not emotionally equipped enough to have a baby at this age and so it ended in a termination. I have had chlamydia a couple of times in the past but treated as soon as I found out but I have seen online this could cause fertility issues and also I’m a bit worried about my age. I know 32/33 isn’t old but I feel I may have left it too late incase there are any problems. I’m unsure if these are genuine worries at this point or I’m just anxious.( I am a generally anxious person) My mother told me she tried a long time to have me when I was younger and it’s always stuck in my head and has made me presume I will be the same. Although she had me at 33 and my brother at 36. I was never that bothered about having children when I was younger but over the last year and a bit something has kicked in that’s made me feel like my life will be incomplete without at least one and having a baby is all I can think about. It has started to cause a lot of pressure in my relationship which is still fairly new. so much so that I’ve started to think if we do break up I’d like to have a baby as a single mother perhaps with donor sperm. I feel I have my whole life to fall in love again but not my whole life to have a baby. Sorry there’s a lot to unpack here! Basically it’s taking over my life. So much so I’m considering paying to have fertility tests but I don’t know if this will feed into it more.