Embarrassing Moment-TCOYF Book

kdE2010 · June 2014

Since it's been 3 yrs since I last read my copy of TCOYF, I had it out yesterday to reread and left it on my nightstand. Fast forward to today... a guy that my DH works with stopped over and DH gave him a tour of the house. This included our bedroom, which had an unmade bed and TCOYF sitting in plain view. I'm pretty private when it comes to TTC, hence we haven't told anyone that we're TFAS, so this was a little embarrassing.

Anybody else have a TCOYF or other TTC embarrassing story?

cateyes543 · June 2014

I too have left OPKs at the house when mom and sister came over. No one has said anything so if they noticed, they are keeping mum. When we first started TTC I had left a HPT on the top of the trash and mom asked about it. I made up some story about taking BCP packs back to back and wanted to make sure I wasn't pregnant before a big drinking weekend. She bought it. I need to be more careful with my trash.

MaddScientist · June 2014

is it embarassing that I didn't buy TCOYF but borrowed it from the library?? even though I am also very private about TTC and haven't told anyone.

kdE2010 · June 2014

bibliothecary said:
Guys are basically clueless; I doubt the friend even noticed TCOYF.

You're probably right, although hopefully DH will think first next time he takes people through our house!

wintersong139 · June 2014

This may not count, but oh well. DH and I have been married for a year and a half, so now is the time that people start to wonder if you are going to get KU. I work pretty closely with another teacher because we both teach the same subject at a small school. During a meeting this year, he said, "I hate to ask, but I have to, you two aren't expecting are you?" I said, "No, no, not pregnant!" He said, "I didn't think so, and I wouldn't have asked, but I was sitting with a group of teachers in the lounge and they were wondering if you were, and I didn't know if I was missing something!" To which I replied, horrified, "What was I wearing that day?" To this day I am wondering what outfit I own that makes me look pregnant.

wintersong139 · June 2014

Oh, I have another one! Once I was buying pregnancy tests at Walmart, and two of my students walked up and said "Hi!" Yep, I am sure they saw what I was reaching for, and maybe that is what started the rumor mill in my previous post?

PHNJenna · June 2014

I have about 5 different fertility related books that are constantly being shifted around my house so parents/friends will not see them when they stop by, I know one of these days TCOYF will be laying around and questioning minds will see it.

Another awkward moment in related to the OPK's/HPT's: I bought about 20 total of the two at the dollar store one day and the young female clerk checking me out states "you must really want to be be sure, huh?" I responded by stating that they are really expensive otherwise and I don't get up to that store that often and something like "it never hurts to have them on hand" in which she gave me a funny look and said back "yeah, like you never know when a friend might need one"….. Oh to be 18 again.

SpartanChick88 · June 2014

@redaero‌ I can imagine your lack of modesty working in a maternity center! I was amazed at how fine I was with my bare ass up in the air as 5 different people wandered in and out.

All this makes me so glad I don't have family nearby! That said... DD and I are headed up to my parents house in 2 weeks. That means I'm there for week 2 of the TWW. Let's see how well I hide temping and charting. I will NOT be testing there though. At least it will prevent me from peeing on all the sticks

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myatala · June 2014

@redaero I decided this time around TTC to be a lot more open about our journey. I've been keeping a blog since our second pregnancy where I wrote about the pregnancy, my physical health, my mental health, and the kid. I'm also pretty open about having had a m/c. I don't know how this current TTC journey will go but especially if we encounter challenges I want to be open about the things we face.

I guess I just feel less alone and less burdened when I share, although I respect that for many people keeping things private is their comfort zone.

PHNJenna · June 2014

@myatala and @redaero, I agree I have been somewhat open with friends/family/some co-workers, at least those whom have and would be there for me in any circumstance. For the last 5 years I have been working in maternal/child health and am usually pretty comfortable with talking about these things.

Jags8 · June 2014

Not exactly TTC, but yesterday my husband was being sassy and jokingly said "Talk to the hand!" from upstairs. So I yelled back "Talk to my vagina DH!" Then I realized all my windows were open. But I was like, oh no big deal, no one could have possibly heard me.

Then there was a knock at my door. Jehova's Witnesses.

Edit- spelling

SpartanChick88 · June 2014

hr1426 said:

I had one before we were TTC. Me and my husband were living at my parents house since I had just got done with college and we hadn't found a home yet we wanted. So we thought I might have been pregnant so I took a test. I had taken the garbage out and put it in the outside garbage can. Apparently The test moved to the top of the garbage some how and my dad saw it when he took out some garbage. My dad so nicely made some smart ass remark about it at the dinner table because my dad is just a giant smart ass. Then my mom chimed in about why would I need to take a pregnancy test because I would just know by the fact that I would need to pee all the time. It was just annoying more than embarrassing but it was still like a oh crap moment.

A few years back my ILs came to visit and we had gone out to breakfast where I had sweet tea... LOTS of sweet tea! I wound up peeing every 15-20 minutes and my MIL kept asking me if I was pregnant. I tried to explain that it was the tea but she didn't believe me until months later when there was still no announcement.

2Swanns · June 2014

@Redaero - Love it! Some times I wish I could be less modest.

My family does not talk about these things, or at least they would make it really awkward. We will not be telling anyone that we are TTC and if I know anyone is coming over, I even hide my prenatals! We'll also be waiting until 3 months to announce to anyone, including our family, if we can help it!

Wine&Cupcakes · June 2014

wintersong139 said:

This may not count, but oh well. DH and I have been married for a year and a half, so now is the time that people start to wonder if you are going to get KU. I work pretty closely with another teacher because we both teach the same subject at a small school. During a meeting this year, he said, "I hate to ask, but I have to, you two aren't expecting are you?" I said, "No, no, not pregnant!" He said, "I didn't think so, and I wouldn't have asked, but I was sitting with a group of teachers in the lounge and they were wondering if you were, and I didn't know if I was missing something!" To which I replied, horrified, "What was I wearing that day?" To this day I am wondering what outfit I own that makes me look pregnant.

One day I wore an empire waist dress after a particularly large breakfast and was asked if I was pregnant...actually, a work associate came bounding up to me asking "how I was feeling" to which I awkwardly replied "fine." It wasn't until our meeting came to a close that she asked me when I was due. A whole host of answers popped into my head - do I lie and say I'm pregnant and then hope I don't see her for 6 months? Do I later tell her awkwardly that it didn't work out?

I told her I wasn't pregnant. I've never seen someone look so horrified and avoid me for the rest of time. Damn dress.

ETA my story: With a metabolic disorder that only requires treatment prior to TTC, the cat's out of the uterus. Everyone and their bother knows we are planning to TTC...with medical formulas to drink, at-home blood tests and a strict protein restriction that prevents family meals at free random, it's hard to cover up and equally harder to explain the sudden change. I just cop to TTC, for better or for worse. I won't be giving people play-by-play updates about it, however. I'm a prude and will adamantly insist that the stork still arrives, so for me to have these discussions with my parents, especially when I needed more detailed medical history from when I was a child, is beyond awkward.

kdE2010 · June 2014

Jags8 said:

Not exactly TTC, but yesterday my husband was being sassy and jokingly said "Talk to the hand!" from upstairs. So I yelled back "Talk to my vagina DH!" Then I realized all my windows were open. But I was like, oh no big deal, no one could have possibly heard me. Then there was a knock at my door. Jehova's Witnesses. Edit- spelling

This seriously made me LOL!

KyMommy86 · June 2014

My dad offered to take my recycling to the center since he was going anyway. I'd forgotten there were several empty clear blue boxes in there. He didn't say anything to me but who knows.

Lomcmuffin · June 2014

I had just had an appointment with my obgyn the day before we left for a trip to Mexico and I had printed off some of my charts from FF and brought them with me to my appointment. Well I left the charts on our kitchen table along with a form for the lab for DH to do a sperm analysis. My mom and my FIL must have seen them while they checked on our house during the week.

Oh, we may have left a tube of PreSeed on our dresser and my mom saw it when she cleaned our house.

HuskyLove09 · June 2014

Not a TCOYF fail, but just a bad... embarrassing fail. A while back I let the 2ww symptoms get the best of me, and got suuuuper excited. I was texting up a storm with my friend talking about pg tests and symptoms yadayadayada. This was back when any baby/pregnancy related word was a 4letter word in our house and dh would freak out. So of course I wasn't telling him any of this yet. But I did need to go to the store to secretly get a test, and when he found out I was leaving, he all of the sudden needed to go too. (Great) So he drops me off at walmart and goes to park and wait for me while I get both of our items. I grabbed a test, some tampons to throw him off, his shampoo, checked out, then went outside to find him, still giddy and happy adrenaline out the butt. ...... And then my phone is missing. Shit. I looked all over the store, not there. Shit, I must've left it in the car and now he's looking through all my crazy hormonal ttc texts. Walked all over the parking lot to find him, not there. Sit by the front door hoping he'll just drive by looking for me, nope. Start to cry. Pathetic. Find a quarter to go use the pay phone, DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO WORK A PAY PHONE. Bc my dumb self hasn't used one since I was 9. It may have been broken, i dont know. Too shy to ask a fellow WM stranger to borrow their phone, so I go back to the front door and wait and secretly cry for 20 mins. ....... And then I feel the phone in my back pocket. Crisis over. The end. ..... Oh wait, BFN. The end. 8-}

theholmanherd · June 2014

Whitney101411 said:

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OHHHHHH I have a HUGE one.

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This made me LOL. So much.

That is all.

lebradford · June 2014

Nothing too crazy has happened yet, but I noticed today that my top 3 websites that pop up on my phone and laptop are porn, the bump, and fertility friend. I made mental note not to lend out my electronics.

I also keep leaving my pink thermometer and my bag of OPKs out when my cleaning lady comes, but I rarely see her in person, so IDGAF.

Embarrassing Moment-TCOYF Book

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DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests

DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!

7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!

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