#TTC (Trying to Conceive)

[gaillardia-fields]

Ways I’m preparing my body to conceive a child in 2025

Disclaimer: I have PCOS so may never naturally get pregnant, but I would like to do as much as I can to help myself make that possible

Seed cycling

Pomegranate daily

Vitamins for PCOS cycle regulation

Foot soaking every night

9 hours of sleep a night

Walk daily

Gym with my husband 3 times a week

Track BBT

Lose 15KG

I enter 2025 with hope 🤍

[moonlightmama]

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I’m a 27-year-old married mama of two amazing kids (10 & 5), and I’m stepping into a new chapter: TTC (trying to conceive) baby #3.

This space is where I’ll share the quiet moments, the emotional highs and lows, and all the messy magic of motherhood, pregnancy, and beyond. Whether you’re just starting your journey, waiting for your rainbow, deep in toddler chaos, or somewhere in between — I see you. 💛

No filters here — just honesty, moonlight, and a whole lot of hope.

Thank you for being here with me. Let’s walk this path together. 🤍

[valiant-vic]

I was always told that having unprotected sex would lead to pregnancy. Well either they were lying or I’m infertile.

[readtheuniverse]

[gothcowgf]

Their hand on my belly as they sleep, and i can feel their fingers twitch and gently grab 🥺

[rayvlil]

For years I have said I was done at 2 kids. It's been 6 years since I had a baby and even as of last November I was saying I would have no more babies.

And then I had a scare. I accidentally missed two birth control pill days. It was in the third week and the internet advice was to skip the placebos and just keep taking the hormonal. That's when I learned that when you continueiously take hormonal pills, you get no period. I go through though that whole pack and get to that pack's placebos. I wait and wait. It usually takes a few days into the placebo week for me to get a period. It is late and I freak out because we had sex before I realises I had missed days. I thought I could maybe be pregnant. I tell husband and we buy a test.

He was so happy when we were waiting for that test. Seriously, the only time I see this man smile and act giddy like this is when we're at Disney world. Sadly for him it came up negative but then this sparked a conversation, are we gonna have a 3rd? Should we? Or should we look into him getting a vasectomy?

Well, ultimately, we have decided to try. I. 8 days out from not starting my new cycle of pills. I do not know where this is going. I know he really wants it, and he is determined to get it. I just hope he doesn't end up disappointed.

[witchunderthewillow]

Currently in my post-ovulation gremlin tww era.

Symptoms include:

Staring at my stomach like it might wink back

Googling “when can you feel implantation” 47 times.

Whispering “Let something root. Let something stay. If you’re in there, you’re already loved. If you’re not, I still am.”

Visualizing my lining like a luxury mattress.

Reminding my uterus: you’re not just here for cramps and chaos.

If you need me, I’ll be over here pretending not to think about it every five minutes.

[eternal-echoes]

Naprotechnology — For any couple trying to conceive, there is a way to help with that without resorting to IVF and other ways that goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church.

[spingu]

nobody tells you how the first giant unexpected cost of having a baby is the number of pregnancy tests you need to buy

[pid-widgin]

Following @impishtubist advice and finishing my shit this December, so here's the new chapter of et au final, ça vaut le coup.

"I don't think that's ever going to happen, by the way."

Regulus, who must have almost been asleep, mumbles something before rolling his head in Sirius's direction.

"Having a baby in the car. That's never going to happen."

He hasn't said it outloud to anyone besides Remus. Not even James, because James burns a little too bright to try to snuff out the light. But Regulus, well Regulus can take it.

"You can't control it when it happens, Sirius," His brother sounds irritated almost, sleep heavy in his voice.

"No, I mean that I'll never have a baby. Like, at all."

And that must have done something, because Regulus sighs and flips back over onto his side with effort so that he's looking directly at Sirius's profile.

"It will. It just... sometimes these things take time-"

"We stopped trying."

[theglowstickchronicles]

I’m having some like Boring Adult Problems and Inconveniences lately and like, none of them are that bad but combined I’m just overwhelmed.

Also. Forewarning. This tumblr is about to start focusing more on trying to conceive and infertility so if that’s not something you’re comfortable with, unfollow. I make it a point to tag all my posts but occasionally there’s something I miss.

1) Basement- the drywall is up and painted, there were issues with the flooring where we wasted several hundred dollars, and now I’m having someone professionally come to install sheet vinyl. Then my Dad and I will finish the baseboards ourselves. There is a chance the guys who did the drywall did not reconnect my drier properly and we may have to cut into the wall again. My dad assures me it isn’t that big of a deal but I will probs cry lol

2) What kind of dumbass gets a cold in 80 degree weather? Me. That kind of dumbass.

3) My new grad was fired and no one is handling it well.

4) Why is trying to have kids so effing difficult??

[sunflowersandroses-blog]

My husband is head-first in his baby fever now and told me he wants to get me pregnant while we were in Hawaii next week. I told him it's not possible because I won't be ovulating, and he said, "challenge accepted." 💀 SIR

[rayvlil]

My period came 6 days early. First period not on the pill and it comes early.

I was disappointed but not discouraged. Was there a moment where I thought I could have become pregnant in this first month of trying? Yes. I've been through this twice, and it still is so amusing to me how the symptoms of early pregnancy and menstruation are the same.

Telling my husband that my period came was the worst. He was so disappointed. And the emotion he was displaying pushed me to ask if he didn’t want me to give him play by play updates? He said no, he still wants to know what is going on.

I am not discouraged. I am affected by how my husband reacted, though.

[treesah]

Tbh the most devastating thing about today is that this negative pregnancy test means my period is late because I mistimed my ovulation day despite tracking three different metrics (luteinizing hormone, basal body temperature, and the electrolytes in my cervical mucus) to pinpoint it.

Trying to conceive has been incredibly funny, though. First, I got pregnant from a broken condom six months before we had planned to start trying again, and then we panicked for a whole month about that AND the Chicago sewer system backing up into our basement during a particularly heavy rain before I miscarried. And then this year, my husband and I have not been within 100 miles of each other during my fertile window for more than half the year.

February: I was celebrating Lunar New Year with my family, my husband didn’t go because some multibillion dollar case for EvilCorp was filing and federal judges are tetchy about people meeting their deadlines

March: My husband went to visit his mom with our son to help her with some decluttering projects and also bully her into going to a neurologist because she had exhibited one or two symptoms consistent with a stroke over Christmas, waved it off as holiday drunkenness and insisted she was fine, and was still slurring her words on FaceTime calls while sober over a month later

April: I was at ENC for a whole week learning more than I wanted to about analytical chemistry

May: My husband was setting up our rental house in Virginia and working in-person at his new job at another EvilCorp

June: I was getting all our stuff moved from Chicago to Virginia (more eventful than I wanted, the movers got into a fistfight with the moving truck driver), while my husband was at a professional conference all the way across the country for the whole week

July: Family vacation at my mother-in-law’s house. There was just no good way to bow out of the group activities happening during the day. At night, not only was our son sharing a room with us, the air duct venting into the room was the same one venting into my in-laws’ room—my mother-in-law asked one morning if my husband wanted any Claritin because she heard him sneezing and blowing his nose in the middle of the night

September: My husband went to yet another professional conference for a whole week and complained the entire time to me over text about how much he hates being paid to stay at the Grand Hyatt, eat catered food, meet new people in his industry, and add them to his LinkedIn

[briarpatch-kids]

Going literally insane TTC

[something-missings-blog]

While continuing to try to conceive, it's been well over a year at this point, I'm absent from home and my wife is sending me pictures and videos of her playing with and holding a 2yr. old that she has been babysitting. It breaks my heart knowing how bad we want a child of our own and doing everything in our power to succeed, yet continuing to see negative pregnancy tests every month. Seeing our loved ones and friends continue to get pregnant just makes it all worse; all the emotions that come with knowing it's not our time yet. The feeling that we lack the support of family and feeling like we are fighting this battle alone.

Nobody told us it would be this hard. Tracking cycles, temperature, dieting, losing weight (husband), gain weight (wife), taking vitamins (both), adjusted sleep schedule, etc.

We are tired and just want what we can't have right now.