You know you're TTTC when...

StacyLH24

Another...

When you finally have spotting at CD 46, thanks to Provera, scream "yahoo" in the bathroom and give your partner, DW in my case, a high five. All because it means that you can finally try again.

Lillovebug79

@cu97tiger that has totally happened to me before!! It's crazy that no drug stores sell sterile specimen cups! I ended up driving to work at 10:30 pm (I'm a nurse at a hospital) to get one. My friends at work got a kick out of that.
OMG I can identify with so many of these! Lol You ladies keep me laughing!

AnnaClaire256

StacyLH24 said:

-you can pick out your follies on the screen before the nurse points them out and know if they are measurable enough.

So true! When I'm sitting there half naked waiting 30 minutes for the dr to show up and do my u/s I always starting thinking...I bet DH could do this! We certainly know what we are looking at! As soon as I see that screen I know whether or not it's good news!

StacyLH24

AnnaClaire256 said:

StacyLH24 said:

-you can pick out your follies on the screen before the nurse points them out and know if they are measurable enough.

So true! When I'm sitting there half naked waiting 30 minutes for the dr to show up and do my u/s I always starting thinking...I bet DH could do this! We certainly know what we are looking at! As soon as I see that screen I know whether or not it's good news!

For my last cancelled cycle, I saw the first ovary on the screen and knew we were out because there were too many. The nurse didn't need to say a word before I said that it wasn't looking good.

rella22

these are all so great and so true. I think my biggest one is magically during every 2ww I experience every pregnancy system known to woman!!!!
aaaaaaand then AF comes :-w

Lindsey7348

Haha I just spent longer than I care to admit reading these and cracking up!!

My "you know your TTC" is when I keep my skinny clothes that are too tight and the "I have to suck in too much clothes", because SOON I'll have a bump and oh my gosh the bump will look so cute in this outfit!" 

My "you know your on a break TTC" is when you wake up and have to pee really bad and think 'oh sh*t when you're on the toilet and then feel relieved and think, oh never mind I'm not using OPK's this month. No waste of FMU here!

jencity9

Lindsey7348 said:

Haha I just spent longer than I care to admit reading these and cracking up!!

My "you know your TTC" is when I keep my skinny clothes that are too tight and the "I have to suck in too much clothes", because SOON I'll have a bump and oh my gosh the bump will look so cute in this outfit!" 

My "you know your on a break TTC" is when you wake up and have to pee really bad and think 'oh sh*t when you're on the toilet and then feel relieved and think, oh never mind I'm not using OPK's this month. No waste of FMU here!

Yes! I have some dresses that every time I wear them I stick out my stomach and think how it would work perfectly if I had a bump and be so cute!! LOL

emmuffy

You know you are ttc when you breathe a sign of relief when you get the "good" ultrasound tech and cringe when it's the stabby one.

CarSaidYes

You know you are ttc or having trouble ttc when you budget out your paycheck and set money aside for RE appointments.

LRsnowflake

Now that it is warmer out, you are thinking of excuses for needle bruises on your arm. Some of my family and friends think I am constantly donating blood.

Lillovebug79

@LRsnowflake‌ I hadn't even thought of that because I haven't done injects or had labs in a while!! Now that I'm starting IVF, my thighs are going to be all bruised up (hopefully my shorts are long enough to cover them though lol), and my arms from all the lab draws! Ugh! Because of all the bloating from stims, I doubt I'll be in a bikini so at least no one will see my the ton I'll have on my abdomen! I'm not sure what excuses I'm going to give...

rella22

Just caught myself doing another "you know your trying to conceive" when you're constantly rubbing your boobs to see if just maybe they're sore or hurt just a little bit during the 2ww!!

siempre595

saw a car with license plate "MFI"

wondered "why would anyone put male factor infertility on their plate?"

….personal pause….oh, that's not what it means to everyone….turned out to be the initials of a business.  

Twinkie0612

You know you are having TTTC when...

you no longer consider sex as a means to getting pregnant.

You get a bill for a few hundred dollars and think it's a good deal.

You realize people are lapping you in the baby department (someone I went to college with has gotten pregnant, had a baby, gotten pregnant again and is due in a few months, all of this happened during the time we have been TTC).

JadziaDax

I really needed this thread tonight. I can relate to so many of these. 

@DharmaChick I do the same thing with Amazon. My husband gets so excited when I place an order since he gets to get something as well lol...

You know you're on a TTC break when:

You feel odd that your husband has been the only person who's seen your vag in the last few weeks

You wonder how many follicles you have, if any, and what they look like

You get excited to sleep late... you know, waking up at 5:50 rather than 4:50am

Twinkie0612

viola27 said:

Twinkie0612 said:

You get a bill for a few hundred dollars and think it's a good deal.

This! Anything less than $500 and it feels like nothing. "Less than $100 for meds? Score!"

I already had a few vials of PIO left, so the only meds I needed for my donor embryo FET was estrace and antibiotics, both of which my insurance covered.  My bill was $16.01.  I felt like I had won the lottery.