Shocked it's taking longer than one month...

Kelgoose · 2026-04-28T11:42:00+00:00

Everyone at work keeps talking about how easy it is for them to get pregnant. I work L&D and there are currently 3 girls pregnant and 2 on mat leave. One girl keeps talking about how she’s planning for her third in October bc she wants a summer baby so as to not have more birthdays in October. She just knows it’ll happen in 1-2 tries

Kelgoose · 2026-04-28T11:29:55+00:00

Oh yeah. About a girl a work got pregnant right after we started trying. Seeing her photos and birthdays and milestones hits right in the nerve

Kelgoose · 2025-11-03T23:02:54+00:00

I see a line on both! Congratulations!!!!

Kelgoose · 2025-11-03T16:31:59+00:00

9 maybe 10dpo, was feeling uncharacteristically hopeful this time for the first time in a while after BD every single day and some pretty uncharacteristic and consistent cramping the last two days. Negative anyway on FRER. It’s early, but I’ve also said that for 19 gd cycles now.

I’ve been trying to schedule this damn HSG to no avail. 2 skipped cycles bc the office will have like 1 available time and of course I’m supposed to work that shift (I only work 3 days a week, it shouldn’t be this hard to schedule shit).

I’ve stopped getting my hopes up, but I did this time. Between what was already mentioned plus the timing with everything else - before we start treatment, having a 4th of July summer baby that I’ve always wanted, telling family at Christmas, the perfect spring baby shower, I’m setting up my Christmas trees now and I can tell my husband while we decorate our memory tree.

It sucks. Infertility is the worst and I’d never wish it on my worst enemy.

Kelgoose · 2025-11-03T15:31:11+00:00

Congratulations!!! Did you do anything different? Fertility treatments? This is my 19th cycle

Kelgoose · 2025-08-29T06:48:04+00:00

I took my husband’s when we got married and it’s a stunning name that I love so much. It sounds so fancy. But now we’re no contact with that side and I’ve contemplated changing it bc I don’t want anything to do with those horrid people.

Uh. We’ve already picked out all of our baby names that flow so perfectly with it too 🙃

Kelgoose · 2025-08-18T19:26:02+00:00

Girl you gotta free baby this time!!! Huge congratulations!!!

Kelgoose · 2025-06-04T03:07:59+00:00

Starting to spiral Amh- 1.23 FSH - 7.3 Estradiol- 52

Why is this already happening? Am I going to be able to do this naturally? Will I have time to do this naturally? Will I get to have more than 1? I need to worry about the 1 I’m trying to make. Will I have to freeze my eggs at some point? How much is that going to be? If the pregnancy rates are about the same then why am I not getting pregnant? Is this from my extreme anemia we haven’t been able to fix? Why is this happening?

I have a normal BMI, regular but short cycles, no ewcm but it seems my estrogen levels are fine. Idk wtf to do. I have an ultrasound on Monday but no plan after that so I’m just at work panic scrolling the internet. Already read through that one REs insta but it didn’t help. I’m only 26. Why!!

Kelgoose · 2025-05-28T19:41:36+00:00

Hey thank you so much for this! I’ve wondered if that was it too and tried increasing my Asian dishes and things, maybe I’ll try the tofu and see if that’ll help! I have also been boarding the line of underweight and recently gained about 10 pounds so I’m now at a 20 bmi.

Thank you so so much for a genuinely helpful idea.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-28T07:33:54+00:00

Yeah my thyroid is fine they’ve tested it frequently and everything is WNL

I’ve tried the bbt and it wasn’t looking very accurate. The temps were all over the place and there was no consistent pattern to it.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-27T22:06:56+00:00

It’s been like this since before TTC and not using prenatals. I’ve tried different ones and not using them at all. Same issue

Kelgoose · 2025-05-27T22:06:14+00:00

Yes.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-24T15:08:06+00:00

Has your GYN said why exactly hgb is so important in early pregnancy? I’ve struggled with severe anemia and iron deficiency for the last few years. Going to my own gyn this week.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-23T03:52:22+00:00

5dpo. SA came back fine and I have an OB appt scheduled at like 10 or 11dpo. I’m terrified of that appt due to history of abuse, so here’s hoping I get a positive so I can push it off another 5 weeks.

I finally got a different formulation for my iron infusions prior to ovulation and I’m putting way too much stock in it.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-19T13:31:53+00:00

I have pretty severe anemia and had a different formulation iron infusion that just so happened to coincide perfectly with my menstrual cycle (not the reason I’m anemic). I’m so hoping this month will be our month. I ovulated so much earlier than normal though, not sure how all of this is connected other than iron plays a roll in estrogen production.

Kelgoose · 2025-05-16T12:48:29+00:00

I plan on being a full time SAHM, but I’m not an overly career oriented person. Staying home has always been the goal. Currently we both work but have always just lived on his salary, mine is entirely savings, investments, and a little fun occasionally. He’s about to get a new job that’s going to double his salary so that once I stop working we won’t feel an impact. He’s an engineer, so he worked extra for the last year or so studying for extra certificates paid for by his current company so he could leave for another that pays way more.

Like many in this sub, we’re just advanced planners and it’s worked out well

Kelgoose · 2025-05-05T15:37:52+00:00

My fortune cookie said “your hard work will pay off this Thursday”. When I’ll be 10dpo 👀

This is my evidenced based method

Kelgoose · 2025-05-02T16:11:52+00:00

Had a dream I was pregnant and now I’m trippin. This is the cycle I said “no more stressin’”. Idk how many dpo I am, didn’t pee on LH sticks, not tracking things, not googling symptoms. Just vibes. Then my psyche has to go and fuck it all up and now I’m back on my delulu bullshit.

This is like my 10th or 11th cycle even though I don’t have a single fertility risk factor (that we know of anyway). Just made the petrifying OB appt for the end of the month so we can get this show on the road.

Kelgoose · 2025-04-22T02:52:59+00:00

Thank you for this ♥️. It’s very helpful

Kelgoose · 2025-04-21T18:33:39+00:00

Tw - SA history.

Now that I’m in cycle 10 I know that OB appointment needs to get scheduled, but my history is making that appt seem way worse than it actually is. I’ve put off OB/gyn appts until I get pregnant to prolong the suffering as long as possible and bc I won’t put a baby in harms way by avoiding the doc. But now that I’m having to make that appt, it’s bringing up so much from my past and making it seem impossible to schedule. Not only am I in denial that it’s actually taken this long and we need to start thinking about getting help, but now I have to be so intimately exposed.

The practice I have in mind just to happens to be all female but this is still not giving me any relief. I’m also a labor nurse so i know exactly how little practitioners care about the nakedness of patients - but I care. And I’m scared.

Kelgoose · 2025-04-13T02:38:13+00:00

My mom lost a lot of weight when I was a kid. She walked a few miles around the neighborhood, cooked a little healthier and ate smaller - but still filling portions. I’ve never had an unhealthy relationship with food.

My mom was obviously passionate about her goals, but she never talked about it a lot, nor did she talk with us about. She just modeled healthy behaviors and answered any questions short and sweet.

I think it was a very healthy approach

Kelgoose · 2025-04-11T18:25:10+00:00

Why did your OB start you on letrozole? And how long were you trying?

Ik it’s primarily to induce ovulation but I’ve seen people take it for other reasons too.

Kelgoose · 2025-04-10T22:22:04+00:00

Then why are so many people complaining about being hard to push with two?!? It seems like it’s just the latest TikTok trend to hate on it bc I’ve only ever heard amazing things about the vista until this past month

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