A year ago....

victoria+james

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KelliRR

Kaylajade8911 said:

cocomama1109 said:

This time last year we had just finished renovating our new house and furniture was coming in. We knew we wanted to try again once all the house stuff was settled. We got super drunk on New Year's Eve, DTD, and the rest is history

Mine was our anniversary ; )

We were talking about TTC, and then my BFF told me she'd just had a MC when I saw her at Christmas. I was really nervous about planning for a BFP, but we decided to try after the first of the year. My hubby's birthday just happened to fall in the magic little window in late January, and, here we are!

Dani0329

I had been trying to convince DH to TTC after returning from a deployment in November. At Thanksgiving I could tell he was considering it, but we went to the casino & had a nice dinner/drinks. We didn't talk about it at Christmas, just celebrated with family. Right after the new year we were on a week long ski trip with my family, I got hammered one night doing karaoke and he said I'm ready to have a baby. I was so excited, but when I woke up I was sure I dreamt it! Later that week he asked me why I hadn't brought it up, haha. We agreed to not prevent, but not go crazy at first. We got our BFP Feb. 5th!

Lindseyione

Last year we were getting ready to celebrate our first Christmas with DD. She was only 8 months old and me and SO were no where near ready for a baby and I was on the pill. I must have been so exhausted from being up with DD several times at night still that I forgot to take my pill. LO was totally unplanned and unexpected but I cannot imagine life without her now.

heathera1979

Last year at this time I had just finished ovarian stimulation and had 15 perfect eggs harvested and fertilized. I was pretty bummed when I found out it was going to have to be a freeze all cycle since my hormones went wonky at the last minute. Of everything had gone according to plan, we would have gotten our bfp on Christmas eve.As it was we were going to have to wait until January. It was hard not know if things would work out as this was going to be our last try and my sister was 5 months pregnant (we had been ttc 11 years at that point)

pattygrazioso

(loss mentioned)
Last year at this time I had buried both my parents within a few weeks of each other. I found out I was pregnant a few weeks after that and was thrilled. At my first prenatal visit they labeled me as "fetal demise". I saw a perfect little baby at my ultrasound, but no heartbeat. So needless to say, this beautiful baby girl in my life I see as a gift from my parents and an answer to my prayer. My husband and I are beyond thrilled to have her in our lives and realize how fragile life really is.

ishknits

My boyfriend and I were planning to move from Oakland, ca to New Orleans. I got my license at 27 and it was my first road trip (my boyfriend drove the whole way to CA when we moved there from philly). We were heading to see his family in WV for Xmas and when I drove into Oklahoma we hit an ice storm and slid off the highway and flipped 5 times over an embankment.. We couldn't believe we were okay. My dog and cat ran off. We stayed in the small town for a few days and did find our dog but never recovered our cat. We were moving so we lost all of our belongings. We had to take a cab 2 hrs to OK city to rent a car so all we could keep was what we could fit in the trunk of a cab. All of our stuff flew out of the car and sat in an ice storm for two days until they could tow it away anyway so. We're both artists and lost all of our work and supplies.. Clothes had paint all over them.. It was really tough.
Literally the meal at ihop before the accident I told my bf I was ready to have a baby and he suggested we get settled first. But after the accident we felt all of our anxieties go out the window and started ttc. SO GLAD FOR THIS XMAS!

Saragoeswest

MrsSarahRenee said:

I was finishing up my Masters final portfolio and presentation. We were going to try to conceive when it was finished!
We had no expectation that we would have a LO this holiday season.

Me too. I was finishing up my Master's paper and my last two classes, doing tons of tutoring sessions and wishing I had more time to work on my novel. I'd gotten off the pill in April and we stopped preventing in December.

I also remember psyching MIL out by declining alcohol when we were visiting. I wasn't pregnant. Just wanted to mess with her. I got a lot of joy out of that.

swise22

I had just graduated from veterinary school, landed my first real job, and gotten married. I finally convince DH we should start trying and stopped my BC that month. Next month I had my BFP. It's so crazy that it's already been a year.

andrieya

Beyonce had just released her album and I knew that song Rocket would be on repeat while we were TTC. Thanks Bey.

rosalie12

Last Christmas I was depressed because we had been TTC for almost a year and still no BFP. I was praying that we would have a baby by this Christmas, but felt like it was unlikely. I was hoping to just be pregnant by this Christmas. We had both had testing done but everything came back normal, so we just needed to relax and make it happen. My cycles were long and our timing had been completely off for many of the last several months. I started using OPKs and they worked the second cycle after that. We got our BFP on February 12, 2 days before our 2nd anniversary, while we were on a tropical vacation. I'm so excited that she is here with us this Christmas!

Mmylsa

This time last year we were planning a trip to Isla Mujeres, Mexico in January as our Christmas gift to each other . We knew we wanted to start TTC soon and wanted another really fun trip before we started. I stopped BC in the fall, little did we know that we would conceive on our trip!