Trying to Conceive

The absolute worst part about trying to get pregnant is the dreaded Two Week Wait between when you ovulate and when you should get your period. You can technically take a pregnancy test about 10 days after ovulation, but it only becomes dependable the day of your missed period.

But you're still waiting to find out. Especially if you've gone through a fertility treatment (like I just did), and you need to do something to kill the time and not think about whether you're pregnant or not. Here are 100 things to take your mind off the time.

I go over my symptoms (or not) on my first week of Letrozole. 

I have to say that I'm experiencing a lot of emotions I haven't for a while.

I've looked forward to getting my period for the first time in two years.

I feel hopeful for the first time in over a year.

I'm nervous and excited and scared and worried and anticipative. 

We make our followup trip to the fertility specialist and make decisions about our future.

We have to decide between IUI or IVF. Medication or no medication. Now or later. 

Our decisions and how they affect us.

When it comes to fertility treatments, costs vary wildly between U.S. Clinics which gives rise to the question "How much is the treatment and how much is extra?" I discuss the difference in costs between Canada and the U.S. and the price differences between regions/states to illustrate how every couple's search for their miracle is not just medical, but financial.

I was raised in the Southern Baptist church where all things are divinely intended at all times. The slogan of my home church could have been "God doesn't make mistakes." No pregnancy is an accident, and if you can't have a child, it's because God has said, "Not yet."

Faith would be so easy if it were just people who want babies not having them.

Parents torturing, threatening, and killing their children grace the headlines on a regular basis, and it just seems unfair that these terrible people have been blessed with so many children that they then abuse when we want to love just one (maybe two).

As a couple who is trying to conceive, it sometimes feels as if all we are ever told is to "wait a little longer."

Though it's absolutely fair for us to have to wait a little, it becomes exhausting after a while. 

I've never been a patient person. I'm certain my parents would tell anyone who would listen that I have never been able to wait for anything. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that 21 months (as of right now) waiting to get pregnant is a special kind of torture for me.

If you've spent any time on Fertility Forums, you probably have been trying to figure out why someone BD'd til their OPK showed an LH surge and now they're in the TWW and has FX that AF doesn't come but instead, they get a BFP.

 That's because, in the world where you're Trying to Conceive (TTC), you get really tired of typing Basal Body Temperature (BBT) over and over. We just start to abbreviate. It's like texting but for people who are trying to have babies.

So, if you're a little lost, here's a quick and concise list of what you're probably going to see.