I hope everyone is having a great Christmas or holiday celebration.
I decided a week ago to check out if The Bump had a Facebook group to join and post on as well and didn't find one. What I did find was a few groups called "Trying to Conceive" and boy were they worse than the Glow app. With Glow at least they have different rooms and not all are horrible.
I just left the FB group today I just couldn't take it anymore.
The things girls were posting and the pictures.
I couldn't get over the "I have been sneezing more than normal and today I sneezed and shat myself. Could I be pregnant?"
Me:24 ~~~~~ DH:26
High school Sweethearts 03/29/07
Engaged 11/29/2009
Married 09/04/2012
TTC#1-06/01/2015
BFP 12/27/2015 EDD 9/8/2016
It's a BOY!
Re: I tried joining a TTC group on Facebook...
**Edited because it didn't post correctly
Married May 2012
TTC#1 July 2013 - July 2015 (no success)
Again TTC#1: Dec 2015
First RE visit: Feb 2016
BFP: 9/16/16 EDD:5/26/17
No no that's your period...
Me:24 ~~~~~ DH:26
High school Sweethearts 03/29/07
Engaged 11/29/2009
Married 09/04/2012
TTC#1-06/01/2015
BFP 12/27/2015 EDD 9/8/2016
It's a BOY!
LFAF April Siggy: TV/Movie BFFs
BFP #4 1/2016, DD born 10/2016
Some people should not be allowed to Internet
LFAF April Siggy: TV/Movie BFFs
BFP #4 1/2016, DD born 10/2016
Me:24 ~~~~~ DH:26
High school Sweethearts 03/29/07
Engaged 11/29/2009
Married 09/04/2012
TTC#1-06/01/2015
BFP 12/27/2015 EDD 9/8/2016
It's a BOY!
Me:24 ~~~~~ DH:26
High school Sweethearts 03/29/07
Engaged 11/29/2009
Married 09/04/2012
TTC#1-06/01/2015
BFP 12/27/2015 EDD 9/8/2016
It's a BOY!
There was this one time that I had what I thought was creamy CM and was like "Oh, TB ladies would know if this was actually creamy or not" because I wasn't positive. But I didn't think of taking a picture... I sat there wondering how I would describe it in a post for a good five minutes, and then promptly remembered FF and Google exist.
Me: 30 | DH: 34 | DSS: 14 | DS: 4
PG #2, EDD 10/12/2023
I love being supportive, and I always wish a sincere congratulations to those that get pregnant. But I feel like they were just supporting each other without decent evidence and setting people up for disappointment. As entertaining as they could be, I just couldn't take it anymore. I'm sure there are FB groups out there that are wonderful, but that experience just wasn't for me. I'll stick to The Bump.
DS1 -- 9/30/2016
Me: 28 | DH: 31
Together since 2006 | Married May 2015
TTC #1 since November 2015
BFP 5/17/16 | EDD 1/27/17 | Born 2/4/17
I got myself voted of the island of "You're Totes Pregnant!" this morning. I am no longer apart of the FB group I was still in.
A girl posted a harmless post she did say TMI but no pictures yet. I responded first, trying to help. She was nervous because she was having horrible cramps and clots that were not normal and her doctor wasn't worried about it. Obviously FB had the answer instead.
*** Possible TMI/TW below***
She then decided to post a picture of the clot, which looked like a leech from hell, to prove that it wasnt normal. I posted "OMG this can't be unseen"
The rest started commenting on how I was judging her and asking her how it felt and if it was hard and can it dissolve in water.
I tried defending myself but it only got worse. Someone decided she must have been pregnant and you can assume what they claim it was from that statement. Even though the doctor said she wasn't. They even posted articles.
I just can't...
I will stay here if thats okay with you all.
Me:24 ~~~~~ DH:26
High school Sweethearts 03/29/07
Engaged 11/29/2009
Married 09/04/2012
TTC#1-06/01/2015
BFP 12/27/2015 EDD 9/8/2016
It's a BOY!
What is wrong with people???!!!!
I liked it as a way to track my periods and eventually discovered the "social" aspect of it. Total special snowflakes, rainbow farting unicorns, and tmi photos!!!! I was mortified!!! I can't believe people do it on Facebook!!!!!
Eta: thank God I found the bump. You ladies keep me grounded and in check of reality and science. Over there I probably would have been pregnant about 8 times by now. Especially with my 45 day cycle a few cycles ago! They see imaginary lines on EVERY THING!!!
I just looked at WTE's TTC community, and holy shnikes. I looked at 5 threads with pee sticks, all of them asking if people saw lines, and everyone said they saw faint lines! I saw nothing! Nada! There was not a gosh darn thing on those tests! WTF?!
Me: 30 | DH: 34 | DSS: 14 | DS: 4
PG #2, EDD 10/12/2023
TTC #2: April 2018 ~~ BFP: May 2018 ~~ EDD: January 2019
Nope! On the site I somehow wound up "following" someone. I don't know how. But so all her posts came up. She has been pregnant "4 times" and each time moves onto a pregnant board but every test is nothing. No one says anything to her. They're all "congrats"
I feel bad for her as she thinks she has had chemicals each time but it's super bizarre to watch it play out. It's even more bizarre to watch all the people allowing this woman to be convinced she's pregnant when it's clearly a negative test.
Eta. She goes to the doctor and her bloods come back at 0. She still assumed it was a chemical and her doctor is missing it.
We had a girl here in the bump a while back who SWORE she had miscarried twins because when she got her period she saw two clots. So wildly offensive to those who have experienced actual miscarriages and losses.
Married 6.22.13
Hoping for a Herd Linky
12/15--IF testing
3/16--Dx Unexplained IF
Clomid + Ovidrel + IUI + Progesterone cycle
Cancelled due to cysts. Started 3 weeks of BCP.
4/16--Cute Ute! Clomid+Ovidrel+IUI+Progesterone TI.
Cancelled-no response
5/16--Hemmorhagic cyst and other cyst discovered.
No medicated cycle. MRI scheduled to rule out
septate uterus.
6/16--Septum discovered. Consultation for surgery.
Surprise BFP 6/8/16--EDD 2/13/17
Kole David--1.7.17--Tiny but Mighty, born at 34+5 after HELLP syndrome
Chart Stalk Me
Eta: gif
ETA: Started with a small pretzel because I was annoyed with the ring showcase, escalated to a chocolate dipped strawberry.
Lilo and Stitch (2002)
I told myself to not go to FB and look. I didn't listen. I think I may have lost a few brain cells reading / seeing some of those things. I have returned back to TB with a sigh of relief lol
I love you, Bump.
ETA GIF TB ate AGAIN!
I've been wondering this for a while with the posters who do the "am I totes preggers?!!?!11" posts, and the people who see lines when there are no lines on the test: Why would it be beneficial to have people tell them they're KU, only to find out they aren't? That sounds awful. Sort of related, how can the posters that make those posts on here make a profile, wait the three days, still not test, and THEN come on here and ask about their symptoms? I just don't get it.
It just looks like a sure-fire way to set themselves up to potentially go through a huge let-down, why would anyone want that over finding out conclusively that they are pregnant, even if that is a little further down the line?
then 3 failed IUIs, and finally a successful IVF FET.
Due with #2 5/2/19 after HIO once in my FW,
because apparently that's how life works now. Team Blue!
NTNP: May 2015
TTC #1: late August 2015
PCOS Dx: January 2016, starting Femara Feb 2016
BFP: 2/29/16 - Happy Leap Day!
Lilo and Stitch (2002)
I actually clicked on this in the first place because TB told me I had 7 unread posts on this thread. I didn't remember reading it, so curiosity got me. Then I realized it was from 2015 and TB came full circle for me. It's really something when you're alerted to unread posts from 6 years ago lol.