When you see people complaining about not wanting a Christmas baby, but you would take any baby on any date and be thrilled after years of TTC

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Attended a wedding tonight. The bride pulled me aside at cocktail hour and said “I switched Amy out from your table last minute - she just found out she’s pregnant and won’t STFU about it”

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My anti-pregnancy announcement post for the socials today. A few people were not impressed with my gallows humor. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Guys is it just me or do y’all see it too 🤭

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Oh, so the Supreme Court wants to force me to carry a pregnancy to full term? Good luck MFers, not even I can make myself do that!

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When all the clinics in your state stop offering ivf.

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The infertility leaving my body when someone says I’ll get pregnant when I quit trying so hard

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Putting up the christmas tree today and just remembered how I was sure I‘d have a baby or at least be pregnant by now when I put it away this January.

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My friend is disappointed that her two babies look too much like her husband & not enough like her. Meanwhile, I'm disappointed that my babies look too much non-existent & not enough alive.

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Here is to everyone who unfortunately will be drinking on new years and only wish is to get pregnant in 2024...

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My employer created a new miscarriage leave benefit to help people with pregnancy loss and HR privately reached out and said I was the catalyst for the change

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When even the Super Bowl halftime show is a pregnancy announcement.

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When the receptionist at the IVF clinic says she’s not sure what to charge because “all this is so confusing to me still. In my day you just had a baby naturally and that’s it but I guess that’s not how’s it’s done anymore” sighing and shaking her head.

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when everyone around me is pregnant and i am but a bag of sentient jello

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When someone says they are not trying this month because they don’t want a December baby.

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Brother met a girl and she got pregnant 3 months later. With twins. She's due next month, and I just learned that they're naming one after our dad. I've been planning to do so for years. I can't get mad bc he didn't know, but it fucking sucks. It's silly, but I feel like my kid just disappeared.

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Going to cousin’s baby shower tomorrow at my aunt’s. Cousin had a LoNg & sCaRy jOuRnEy: 4 months of her “wondering if I’ll have trouble like you”. So I wrapped each tiny present individually with glitter paper and threw in an extra glittery card. I’m calling the glitter ‘baby dust’ for deniability.

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When even your breakfast is more fertile than you

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Squint with me ladies!

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The whole table at family dinner when my response to a “kids are expensive” comment is “yes I know, I’m $20,000 deep and don’t even have one yet”

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when 36w of pregnancy leaves you with 10 extra lbs, stretch marks, and leaking boobs but no baby in your arms

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This absolute legend had her post-IVF fries delivered directly to the clinic.

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Ah, denial.

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Me a bitter 35 year old TTC looking around the forums for info and finding they call shagging baby dancing and wish dust on each other

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Can't believe this meme wasn't here already ...

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“I’m worried, it’s been 3 cycles and I haven’t gotten pregnant yet.”

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Me watching the fertiles do literally anything with their kids

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My husband’s sperm in my uterus, wondering what TF they are supposed to be doing.

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Ahhhh that's better. Hate seeing this fucking lady everyday.

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When you see a baby pic on your timeline but you know it was an IVF baby

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All whilst in an Italian restaurant watching other people get to eat their pasta before you...

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This is now officially the only ttc related group I will visit, because if I see another person who’s been trying for 3 months venting about “when is it my turn?!?” I will cry 🙂

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Remembering the person I was when I thought I could plan out my pregnancies like this 🥴

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My reaction when a Reddit comment starts with “I’m pregnant with number 4...”

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TFABLinePorn Starter Pack

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me seasoning reddit with my salty downvotes on every single unicorn post on TTC reddit

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I thought “not pregnant” was a terrible feeling, but “not pregnant anymore” really takes the cake

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Waiting on ovulation like

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When a friend responds with wow, that was my biggest fear when we started trying. I was so relieved when I was proved wrong! in response to me telling them that my husband and I are struggling with infertility.

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recording our unenthusiastic ttc sex that neither of us really even wanted in fertility friend

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Apparently /r/MadeMeSmile is just everyone gushing over positive pregnancy tests. I did not smile.

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Me, at my fertility clinic waiting for my ultrasound appointment wondering if any of these other badass women waiting are a part of this sub....

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Old-me was only willing to try science-based methods of TTC. Current-me is eating pineapple and using a red light lamp on my pelvis. How times have changed LOL

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How all doctors view fertility investigations, like the guy isn't supplying half the genetic code.

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When you bring your friends on a girls trip, but they insist on calling it a MOm’S trip knowing you have no kids and haven’t been successful at making the babies 🫠

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When I tell my friends we’ve been trying for 1.5 years, and they react by saying, “Omg congrats that’s so exciting!!”

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Looking at my “progression” of pregnancy tests

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Wearing my lucky socks to IUI #2

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Asked my husband to grab me a progesterone suppository. He handed me one and said Do you need a glass of water?

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MRW there is a pregnancy announcement for twins in a subreddit that has nothing to do with fertility or babies...

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“How do you feel grief from infertility if you haven’t, like, lost anything?”

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My face when someone asks if their dye stealer pregnancy test looks okay

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Me: “I’m going to use cheapies this month to stop peeing our money away.” Also me: “these are only negative because they aren’t FRER, I’m *clearly* pregnant.” My husband:

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TTC for number 3, 3 months TTC and I never knew how hard this journey would be 💔#infertility- an actual comment I saw on my Instagram feed.

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I started crocheting a baby blanket, only to find out I’m having a 3rd miscarriage.

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“It took us four months to conceive. The waiting was horrible”

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Opened up about struggling with my infertility on a ttc forum, and was met with “I know exactly how you feel, I’m on cycle 3 trying for #2, my first was an accident and having to try is so hard” 🙄

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buying an adorable plushie for my brother's impending baby... immediately deciding it should belong to my own theoretical offspring instead

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Last weekend I was in family member's wedding while actively miscarrying... I didn't say a word about it, but the bride knew. At the rehearsal, she immediately pulls me aside and says, don't make this about your fucking miscarriage, this weekend is about me.

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Them: “Kids are expensive.” Me: “So is infertility.”

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What this sub feels like

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I went to IVF and all I got was this T Shirt

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When the overly pregnant woman at work writes a post about her infertility and IVF journey and now you're so happy for her

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Seeing all the Just adopt and If you can't afford IVF, can you really afford a child? comments get upvoted yet again on AITA.

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Me for the last 4 years

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Please🥴

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Me remembering how I subscribed to all of the pregnancy, motherhood and cloth diaper subreddits when I started TTC

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Cd 1. About to do my first IUI and my coworker says It's always the ones who would be the best moms who seem to struggle to become one.

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It’s just ungrateful when you really think about it

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To everyone who is struggling with today. All of us who wished 2022 would have gone differently... I am wishing a gentle new year for you, that 2023 is kind to you. That you prioritize your health and happiness. Sending love to you and yours 💕

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Finally going on Vacation...would be a shame if I finally got pregnant and was sick the whole time. HOW inconvenient!

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when i call my obgyn's office to report my pregnancy loss and the receptionist tells me my ultrasound will be $160 instead of $130 because $130 is the rate for VIABLE pregnancies 🤮

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Back here after being pregnant for 16 f*ing weeks

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When the radiology tech says that she's a medium, and a ghost in the room wanted her to tell me that it will happen for us soon

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My MIL offered to be our surrogate

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When women ask for advice on convincing their man to get a seman anaylisis

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When someone says I plan on getting pregnant in the next couple months

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Me when my mom says “you should be happy for your sister” who’s currently pregnant with her oopsie baby

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I miss the person I was before TTC

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I joined an online miscarriage support group because I've been feeling really depressed and angry lately. I vented about feeling frustrated that everyone I know has had successful pregnancies and I'm struggling with it only to be told that it's not a competition and that these things take time..

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When a couple announces on TikTok they're pregnant with their 11th child and your body hasn't figured out how to make even just one.

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MRW Another patient brings in their toddler to the IVF clinic while I’m there for the 6325th time, doing IVF for longer than that child’s been alive

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Extra mad at my infertility because I’d have the decency to not give my kids dumb names

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Now this is one letterboard I can accept. Thought you other ladies and gents might agree.

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What I want to do to people who post obviously positive tests with “Line eyes?”

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Saw a comment on a video about IVF that said “real women don’t need to pay to get pregnant, ugh infertile people weird me out so much” there’s a lot of words I’d like to say to this person, and none of them are nice

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Searching for new infertile people to follow on TikTok because everyone I was following got pregnant

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Me checking this sub every morning like it's the newspaper

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Scrolling past a picture of a positive pregnancy test in r/mademesmile with the caption My wife and I's first time trying

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MRW a woman trying for her third child tells me “secondary infertility is just as hard, if not worse, than what you’re going through”

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When your husband gets home and says he feels sad that there was a pregnancy announcement at his work today.

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new level unlocked: shamelessly walking through manhattan in my pajamas, clutching a 3 pack of FRERs

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Dear r/trollingforababy, headed over to r/IFChildfree after a long slow dance with both... will miss each and every salty heart and sharing here.

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People say this sub is negative, but you're the only ones I want to tell that I finally get to start IVF, and I know you will react like this

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What I hear when someone congratulates me after I tell them we’re doing IVF

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Failed to get good enough images during my HSG today so I get to do it again!

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Me making a stop on the way home from every monitoring appointment

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Meds got me looking for fights so I got myself kicked out of a TTC group for telling them if they’re mature enough to have a baby then they’re mature enough to stop saying “baby dance”

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Super fertile people in TTC subs:

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It's my birthday and all I can think about is how I may never give anyone else a birthday

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Ultrasound Tech: Avoids eye contact. “The doctor will be in to speak with you”.

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Since everybody & their mom can get pregnant on accident 🙄

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Me when I'm talking about the IG I made my dog and one of my coworkers says, Oh, we used to have social media accounts for our dog. Then we had kids and we realized the dog is just a pet.

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Booking a vacation & buying tight fitting clothes to trick the fertility gods into thinking pregnancy would totally inconvenience me

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It's not always easy for the boys either

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Five years TTC, first ever pregnancy just ended in miscarriage

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When anti-vaxxers say the vaccine will make you infertile

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Finally, a costume for me!

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I finally decided to delete all of my social media accounts today

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In my villain era

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Put off planning a vacation to Spain next summer in hopes I’d be heavily pregnant, but that’s obviously not happening, so fuck it, I’m booking that trip

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How I envision cycle 1 unicorns struttin’ around with their magical wombs

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Had a heart to heart with someone experiencing secondary infertility and they took the time to look into my childless eyes and say “I’m sorry I know it’s not the same...”

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Why, just why?

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After almost 5 years, 2 IUIs, 2 IVF and 3 failed transfers, my husband and I are tapping out. Thank you so much to this group for being everything I've needed to get through this shit show... honestly it was sometimes the only thing keeping me going. Who knows tho, Maybe wE'LL gEt a MiRaCLe bABy!

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When your sibling gets you an “I’m in my auntie era” sweater for Christmas

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Hearing someone talk about how they expected it to take a long time to get pregnant but actually it “happened really fast”

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When you’re on TTC forum and you see people using “DH” and “BD” acronyms...

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Can I share this on my Instagram this December?

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My Husband: it's so nice you've found this community in reddit. I thinks it's really nice. ☺️ Me: no longer hearing him now that I've found my coven.

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“It’ll happen when you least expect it!” Oh don’t worry, I never expect it anymore. Which is why I have depression.

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When you see a post in a crafting sub where the poster is complaining about gender disappointment for her SIXTH HEALTHY PREGNANCY

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MRW someone in an egg donation group asks if they can buy “boy eggs”. No, she doesn’t want embryos. Just eggs. Eggs that will make boys. Can she test the eggs to make sure they have just a Y chromosome and no X? Her last 2 cycles “only gave me girl embryos, so now I want to start with boy eggs”.

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When I overhear my unicorn (triplet) coworker say “the only thing that sucks is that people think I was pumped full of chemicals and hormones to actually have them!”

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When your friend sends you a meme about how draining motherhood is so you respond with “still sounds better than being infertile”. Stings a bit more since she knows our struggle and how desperate I am to be a mom.

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CD1 again. Went to colleague's mini baby shower three months post MMC at 19 weeks. Managed to smile, congratulate her, wish her well and watch her unpack tiny baby clothes. Only cried once while hiding in the bathroom. I deserve a freaking medal

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When you try anything to get him to finish

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Two years of trying and only an ectopic to show for it. My MIL hands me a beautiful flower arrangement and quietly says Happy Mother's Day. Brb going to weep now.

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My doctor watching my husband and I argue about how long we’ve been TTC

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Made this cake for myself for MD because I’m doing my best + I deserve cake 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I truly embarrass myself

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When that infertility anxiety hits...

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Actual footage of me joining a pregnancy sub, just to unsubscribe less than 24 hours later

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Had a post of a very obviously positive pregnancy test pop up in my feed, with the caption “I don’t know how these tests work, it’s our first month trying, is this positive?” After I’d just got done crying over yet another bfn, fml 🙂

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Got an idea from a post on here that’s gonna make us all rich. An app that is snarky about fertility. You get awards every time you have another hurdle lol. One year trying? ⭐️ Uterine lining issues? 🥇 I can be the product manager I just need engineers. Lol 😂

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How I feel about some of the TTC acronyms people use.

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What I may start trying if my FETs keep failing like this.

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Seeing everyone's 2023 recap when your year was consumed by TTC and ended in a MMC

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Time to send yet another embryo into the abyss!

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Finally got the courage to say “I have no living children” when asked insensitively “So how many kids do you have?”

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When the doctor asks me if I have been taking folic acid

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When I see comments spreading “baby d_st” in the IVF subreddit.

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When insurance says they cover the costs of the infertility diagnosis, but none of the treatments.

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When you see people doing IVF only for gender selection of their third child complaining because their several normal embryos are all the same gender, that they didn’t want, but you just want a baby.

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