How can I stop being so bloody broody?!

[scorpio0611]

Hi, new here

For the past year or so I’ve been extremely broody but now it’s getting to a point of being uncontrollable!

I constantly think about being a mother, what mine and my partners children will be like, what we’ll name them etc.

My partner is all for having children he is very good with kids (which doesn’t help the whole broody issue!)

However, I am due to start a new job in January/February 2020 meaning I won’t get maternity pay until at least over a years service before I take ML (friend of mine works there told me about the policy). I would also not like to get pregnant during my probation period due to the simple fact it may be obvious and I may be fired - I know people say they can’t fire you for that but it happened to my friend and they claimed it was due to ‘poor performance’.

My main question is: how do I stop being so f*cking broody?!!!! I constantly think about being a mother and my partner being a father. I see people announcing pregnancies and having babies and I just pine over the moment that’ll be us! My partner did say as soon as I have passed my probation period in my new role we can start then but that’ll be July/August and I need to control my broodiness until then, please help MN’ers!

Hi, what kind of contraception are you on?
I was very very broody (and so was DH) but we wanted to wait until after our wedding. So in the months before I stopped the pill and started temping with the Kindara app and read loads in their community. We used condoms before ovulation (and shortly after) and I just learned sooo much about my body, which was great because it felt like I was doing something and working on getting pregnant although I wasn't actually TTC. I felt like I was in control as much as I could be. There's a book called 'taking charge of your fertility' by Toni Weschler and it's been so so helpful.

Think about all the things you enjoy which you wont be able to when pregnant, and make the most of it. Like alcohol and smelly cheese, jacuzzis, saunas, rollercoasters, a functioning bladder, not vomiting relentlessly.

I've had 36 mins sleep in two days 😂 I've got a 2 year old that dosent sleep and a 8 week old with colic.

I know this feeling! My broodiness was uncontrollable when I came off the implant and my hormones came back - I literally spent all day every day thinking about babies.

In the end we decided to start trying earlier than planned so I'm not much help on this!

But only experience I could give is look at your contraception. The implant completely masked my hormones so maybe look at options to balance out the hormones in the short term? X

I booked a holiday to stop me ttc when I was broody It stopped me for 8 months and we decided to start ttc before the holiday and I found out I was pregnant about a week before we went

posted too soon!

if a holiday isn't an option make some lovely plans just you two as a distraction, get anything done in the house you need to, save save save and make plans as to when to come of any hormone contraception if your on it so you can get to know your cycle

Currently on a combined hormone pill! We’ve talked about me coming off it and tracking my cycles which I think is a good idea because come mid/late next year when we try I’ll know my body better and I won’t have to take time to adjust to coming off the pill

We would actually start TTC sooner if it wasn’t for me starting a new job! If we did and I missed out on receiving maternity benefits by a month or two I’d feel awful because of the massive difference between fully and SMP

Full pay ^ and SMP that should say.