Trying to Remain Calm While TTC

Re: Trying to Remain Calm While TTC

• KingLED member

  December 2014 edited December 2014

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  Hello all! Just looking for some advice/tips on how you all remain calm and patient while TTC. This is only my 4th month of TTC#2, but I'm already starting to feel those familiar feelings of frustration and sadness I felt when we were trying for our first (it took us 6 months to conceive her). I love my DD so much and am trying to push thoughts of baby #2 out of my mind so I can just enjoy this wonderful time with her (she's 19 mo and it's such a fun age!). Thank you for any advice you might have!

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  Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.

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• ramaholic member

  December 2014 edited December 2014

  said:

  Hello all! Just looking for some advice/tips on how you all remain calm and patient while TTC. This is only my 4th month of TTC#2, but I'm already starting to feel those familiar feelings of frustration and sadness I felt when we were trying for our first (it took us 6 months to conceive her). I love my DD so much and am trying to push thoughts of baby #2 out of my mind so I can just enjoy this wonderful time with her (she's 19 mo and it's such a fun age!). Thank you for any advice you might have!

  Hello, M.
  
  Charting my basal body temperature (BBT) to confirm ovulation really works wonders for my piece of mind.  Knowing if I even have a chance of conceiving each cycle (and the bonus of knowing when to expect my period!) makes me feel more in control of TTC.
  
  Check out our Newbie Blog and FertilityFriend if you want to learn more about this process -- both sites are great TTC resources and have a lot of eye-opening information that sex-ed never taught us.
  
  Other than that, I enjoy my life as it is, and don't focus on any one singular aspect -- including TTC.  There's only so much I can do (and I'm doing it!), so why continue to agonize when I've got nothing more to do but wait?
  
  Good luck.
  

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• KingLED member

  December 2014

  Deleting is rude, OP.

  
  

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  Son: Jackson, 11/02/06, stillborn due to PPROM and IUGR. Over the next ten years we had 9 miscarriages from 8-14 weeks. On May 18, 2016 my daughter, Ridley, was born. We're OADNBC.

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• butterfly8359 member

  December 2014

  Oh my goodness!!! Thank you so much, ladies. I can't believe I didn't notice that was my usnername before. You all have been incredibly helpful. Thank you!!!

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• ELMTree1306 member

  December 2014

  The only piece of advice I have when TTC #2 is to see it as a completely different experience than your first attempt at TTC. It took us 5mo to conceive our DS. When that cycle came and went while TTC #2 I was a mess, even though I knew it could take up to a year for a healthy couple to get a BFP. Sometimes the emotional side takes over the rational side.
  
  Good luck!

  DH and I-married since Aug 2008
  DS born Sept 2011
  TTC #2 since Nov 2013

  DH: SA=excellent
  ME: Low AMH, High FSH= Decreased Ovarian Reserve

  Repeat HSG Dec 8th, hoping to start treatment in Jan 2015

  
  

  
  
  

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• lvlyldybmp member

  December 2014

  Xanax. And I try to remind myself to enjoy the journey, it should be a fun time, we try to make more frequent date nights, I do a lot of self care when I get BFNs, and I keep myself distracted! Movies, books, the interweb, whatever, anything to take my mind off the waiting.
  

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