“Have you tried taking supplements?”

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When people you like announce is one thing.. The rage of someone you dislike announcing is another level.

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SIL announced her pregnancy today. My parents’ first grandchild.

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Nothing but confidence now. At least they’re not shoving anything through my cervix

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How it started, how it’s going for you Gilmore fans...

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TFW they say, “congratulations!” after you tell them you’re about to start IVF.

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I have 1 baby shower & 2 gender reveals to attend this month

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Time to start my monthly ritual, and by monthly ritual I mean my period being *just* late enough to make me think there’s a chance, then going to buy a test only to have started my period some time between leaving the house and arriving at the store

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When the heroine of the romance novel you're reading starts to feel nauseated

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Me at dinner having to binge drink so I can avoid being asked if I'm pregnant yet

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My co-workers feeling uncomfortable AF when they ask what's new and I tell them I just started IVF. Because if you can talk nonstop about your babies I can talk about this, goddamnit

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Who else told themselves this is going to be our LAST Christmas without a baby......

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When unicorns give TTC advice

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When you’re trying to keep up hope that your fifth retrieval and surrogate search will all be worth it one day, and now you also have to worry about your southern state making rulings against IVF.

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Not me feeling nauseous on 11 DPO & getting my hopes up when it’s actually the FLU 🫠😩

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When someone comes to a TTC page full of positive energy and excitement for their first cycle looking for advice

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We get on here to escape. Not see pregnancy announcements. Please stop.

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TFW you open up to your friend about your unexplained losses, and she says she just knows she and her husband won't have trouble when they start trying because she's so fit and healthy.

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If I hear one more person say when I share that I’m TTC and had another failed cycle “Just relax! It’ll happen when the time is right, have fun and don’t think about it! Don’t stress!”

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Me photographing my 9DPO BFN in every room of the house

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I ovulate on the new moon tomorrow, not the full moon, and my woo friend goes ahh that’s why you’re not getting pregnant! Has to be a full moon silly! Excuse me why I go die inside

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4 years into this JoUrNeY

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When your unicorn fertile friend texts you if you’ve read “It Starts With the Egg” because she is finding it very helpful for preparing for baby #2 and thinks it could help you get pregnant.

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me having my 2nd miscarriage during infertility awareness week

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I’m selling my wedding dress for another IUI. Will this bite me in the end, or am I just a business woman?

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MFW I realize I've hit the point in this JoUrNeY where simple innocent questions from those new to TFAB irritate the shit outta me hahahha. I think its time to unfollow that one 😆 😆 their optimism disgusts me hahahaha

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Me @ the unicorn currently attacking people on the thread about deleting Instagram due to the bump challenge/Mother’s Day weekend

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When your cousins - who spend all their time complaining that their first, healthy child has *gasp* RED HAIR - announce their second, named after your grandma, which was your plan IF INFERTILITY DIDN’T STAND IN YOUR WAY

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When my friend has been bugging me to hang out so she can excitedly announce her pregnancy to me and celebrate

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DPO is for delulu post ovulation

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What it feels like to be a long-term member of TTC subs - watching people come, learn about their bodies, conceive, and promptly leave

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When my husband keeps saying just get it when I show him anything post-miscarriage. One of us is going to have to put a stop to this eventually, right?!

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My mom started freaking out after she heard I got my vaccine. “Why would you do that?! It could give you fertility problems!!”

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I know a lot of you have been trying for a lot longer but hitting the year mark really fucking hurts.

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Me when I read posts from people having secondary infertility with a living child

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I need to find a way to stop being so angry, bitter, and miserable because it’s just making this “journey” even worse. But I cannot stop feeling terrible.

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My brain trying to figure out why anything unexpected reduces me to tears.

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Me bothering my dog for snuggles because it’s CD1 and she’s too beautiful

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Trying to think of the positives of a CF life...but then pregnancy announcements start dropping everywhere again.

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MRW my coworker, who just got married in August, is standing outside my cubicle talking about how fast he got his wife pregnant

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CD5, sister just gave birth to her baby girl 2 weeks after I should have had my baby girl, family is in love, and we just found out my husband (who’s currently on a work trip) has low sperm morphology

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Cleaning my bathroom and realized that I basically have a new hobby. Like many of my past hobbies it's expensive, creates a constant desire for new equipment, and I'm annoyed I'm not mastering it after six months.

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Me googling pregnancy symptoms at 4 dpo

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Seeing someone’s video of telling their mom the day they found out and realizing that is yet another thing this wonderful *jOuRnEy* will rob me of.

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Every “friend” who falsely offered to loan me their uterus over the years, after the Pope called for a global ban on surrogacy today.

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Friend said today that I “probably just don’t have the right mindset” and that maybe we’re “trying too hard”.

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Aaaand my only close friend on this infertility journey with me is pregnant.

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Going in for my 1st FET today... Salute to all you majestic beasts for making me laugh everyday & keeping me (relatively) sane🫠

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when someone asks So what, do you avoid pregnant people IRL then too? after i ask them not to expect me to focus on their pregnancy in an online space

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When you’re forced to bench yourself for a few months because turns out you’ve got cancer and you def didn’t have that on your pregnancy bingo card (I’m fine btw it’s being removed tomorrow and I’m in good spirits, plz make me laugh)

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Me, watching the woman on 1000lb sisters get pregnant accidentally

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Still seeing mentions of positives on TFAB after a mod just posted about the rules

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when you joined r/mademesmile for some sort of positivity, but it's just a constant stream of pregnancy/birth announcements

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MRW my mother gets offended when I don't want to talk about my multiple miscarriages or about us trying again in the future...

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My doctor forgot to order the trigger shot we planned on this cycle and we ran around trying to get it last minute but couldn’t. I tell my doc, “no worries, we’ll get it next time” and he says, “Did you know stress really has an impact on your fertility? How do I get you to stress less?”

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MRW my sister hits me with the “just adopt!” because her friend did that and it totally solved all her infertility woes. Guess that’s another person I can cross of my list of confidantes as we dive face first into IVF..

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Infertility warrior? At this stage I'm an infertility Jedi

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“You stress too much just relax and it’ll happen” - said to me by mom and pregnant sister after just finding out my fourth treatment failed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😀😀😀😀😀😀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Going to Italy for two weeks, just around ovulation, so I demand a surprise vacation pregnancy.

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How I feel when someone decides to share that recurring pregnancy loss significantly raises your chance of a heart attack.

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Me trying to actively avoid a co-worker who I know wants to announce to me, but she calls me directly on Skype so I can’t escape

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PSA: The infertiles don't want to constantly hear about other people's babies!!!!!!!!!! It's nice that your neighbour has a baby! FUCK OFF!

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Husband decides that instead of using the term JoUrNeY, we should instead talk about our fertility ORDEAL or even HELLISH QUEST.

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IUI #2 today! Nervously happy and stressed!!

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That one time when I read It Starts With the Egg

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Attending my first baby event after a MMC, and having that person with a collection of whoops babies tell me “If it were meant to be, you’d still be pregnant.”

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Lining looks beautiful. There's the ovary. Some nice follicles on this side... The screen:

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Me: *opens Flo app* , App: “WHAT IS IMPLANTATION BLEEDING?? DO YOU HAVE IMPLANTATION BLEEDING?? IMPLANTATION BLEEDING - EXPLAINED”

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Trying to do fun things in the midst of treatment.

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My husband and I deciding to have actual fun sex for once. My dog:

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My ex friend sub-posting about me because I didn’t “check on her” enough during her pregnancy, even though she knew about my first miscarriage and never once checked on me.

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Can’t go on social media anymore. Also can’t remember who is and isn’t pregnant these days 😂

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MRW people use cutesy terms

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You're trying too hard, you're stressing yourself, delete all your apps, stop tracking just BD every single day. If you're infertile why are you even trying.

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Me to my husband: Every month since we’ve been TTC, I’ve had pregnancy symptoms before my period but I’ve never been pregnant. So this month I MUST be pregnant because I’ve had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever!

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hitting the 1 % of all couples, which have 3 miscarriges or more in a row

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When people ask me how TTC is going

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when the prenatal goes down sideways

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Trying to figure out if Mother’s Day is worse if no one acknowledges I should have been 8 months or worse if it IS acknowledged

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When the wall of your clinic's blood draw station has a giant picture of a fairy pouring out glittery Baby Dust.

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MRW people think their unsolicited advice is sooooo groundbreaking🙄

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After two years of procedures, two weeks of stims and an endless amount of twanding - IVF clinic warns me not to rush bf to ejaculate pre-ER and ensure that it's 'whenever he feels like it'

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Just done a count and realised it is our 50th cycle trying for a baby! Time to celebrate this glorious achievement of human endurance

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Starting to feel like this whole jOuRnEy is my villain origin story

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They always find you

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Me and my poor sweet summer husband

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Me googling 10dpo implantation bleeding every month like it's not just the same spotting I get every cycle.

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After confirming I’m not pregnant before the x-ray, the dental tech tells me she thinks she is, because she isn’t sure when she’s supposed to get her period, and began listing her symptoms to me, a patient, and then asks me, stranger in a dental chair, if I think she is pregnant.

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“Just wait until you have a screaming toddler, you’ll wish it took you longer to get pregnant!”

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Friday night, 14 DPO, who’s with me 😅

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Finally found an infertility grief counselor after two bad therapy matches, she emails to warn me before we start that’s she’s 22 weeks pregnant

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Extra heavy implantation bleeding before Mother's Day. Sigh.

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I just threw a small amount of shade at a birth announcement in an IVF group because they said 'your turn will come'

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MRW yet another person asks “why aren’t you just adopting?”

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When you were super concerned about using birth control every time for years and now you’re several years of temping, timing, IUIs, and IVF rounds

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Officially have my IVF cycle start date on the calendar for January!

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Me contemplating if I should wear my pink 1 in 8 shirt to an upcoming baby shower because we were asked to wear pink

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When you’re in a baby loss group and your only living baby died at 4 days old so you’re a *gasp* disgusting “fertile” 🙃

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When the cycle 2 unicorn provides an 11 paragraph essay and analysis on TTC because whatever worked for her definitely wasn’t just luck

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When they ask me when I’m having a baby or if I want one.

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Imagine if you will that it is somehow still 5dpo, no matter how many times you go back into the app to check

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Me to friend 'hopefully I'll be pregnant next time I see you.' Friend 'hopefully not, I need someone to drink wine with.'

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My husband told his parents we were thinking about getting a surrogate. They told him it was a stupid decision and we should just try harder.

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When your second round of IVF also yields a single follicle

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Every time

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When a close friend announces pregnancy and sends you a text to tell you that they are keeping you in mind and that they know this isn’t easy for you but somehow that makes you more sad

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MFW people talk about all the pregnancy announcements on social but I’m so old and have been ttc so long this doesn’t happen for me anymore.

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When I see a shitty, gate-keeping insta reel about how no one is tired if they aren’t a parent, and I decide to comment rather than scrolling by

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When someone on TFAB that started trying in JUNE comments that it may be a hard day being around her friends new born

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To all the bitches that send “baby dust”

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Internally deciding if I’m going to tell my sister about my IVF cycle and she says something horribly insensitive about her friend’s miscarriage

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I always wondered what age I would be when I started seeing all the pregnancy announcements popping up on my feed. Turns out it’s immediately after your first MC.

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When my pregnant coworker who experienced infertility tells me I need to “get on it” with having kids

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MRW the ultrasound tech who has opened up with me about her own struggles says, “this shit fucking sucks” during my weekly twanding.

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NIAW - National Infertility Awareness Week is coming up - what would help YOU in your journey. I feel like everything I have seen online and from clinics is very toxic positivity, and this community has helped me find the lighter side of things - so what would ya'll like to see from this week!

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When your boss looks around the room for the Non-Moms to take over our Mother's Day celebration to give the moms a break!

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My shitty eggs, PCOS, and hostile uterus working together to make sure no pregnancy of mine lasts longer than 5 minutes

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Realized I’ve basically developed diaper rash from all of the pantiliners I have to wear to catch my progesterone goop.

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MRW I finally get a chance to talk to my MIL about ttc, and she took 3 years to have her first and knows exactly what to say

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After muting all your pregnant friends on facebook and all you're left with are your crazy Trump supporting relatives

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Movie fun fact: To make the briefcase in Pulp Fiction emit a bright light upon opening, Tarantino simply taped a single internet cheapie with a blazing white BFN to the inside.

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My app says I'm 20 DPO but still no positive pregnancy test and no AF

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Why are people like this?! 🤦🏼‍♀️

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I thought yesterday was the RSVP date for an acquaintance’s baby shower... it was the shower. I just wrote it down wrong!

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MRW it’s the morning of our second IUI, we have two good sized follicles, and my husband tells me he dropped the cup when he produced the sample

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When my pregnant friend says I’m acting bitter towards my other pregnant friend

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At least once a week in infertility subs

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this notification as I'm having a miscarriage is.... yeesh

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Me going back to basics after a long infertility journey has yielded literally nothing

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Sent this to my husband today... he didn’t appreciate it. Please laugh with me 😭😭😭

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Me showing my pregnant friends r/trollingforababy memes.

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Doing things I enjoy and actually have control over. Six concerts down, five to go!

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IVF is playing God and is wrong. I don't believe that God would approve. - said by my secretary.

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How are y’all doing during the holidays. This is me knowing I would have a 4 week old right now if my body wasn’t so stupid.

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My fertility clinic has started trying to participate in tik tok trends. Why though.

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Actual footage of how sperm treat my eggs.

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Stillbirth at 37 weeks, retained placental tissue, hysteroscopy (at which they punctured my uterus) and now a chemical pregnancy. 2022 has been ✨my year✨

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Going in for betas at 14dpo despite testing negative at home because my RE just wants to be sure... 🙃

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Me when my fertility obgyn referred to my miscarriages as “little pregnancies”

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What the woman who drew my husband's blood for our upcoming IVF treatment must have been thinking when she told him Maybe you should just get a dog because sometimes that's what life has in store for you

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When daily life is hard enough and my mom puts my personal cell number to handle RSVPs for my unicorn sisters baby shower without asking. I can’t wait for texts and calls everyday for the foreseeable future reminding me of my own babyless existence.

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Finally going to a therapist that specializes in infertility just for her to say “Have you considered adopting?”

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Getting judged by fertile family members because we go out for fancy dinners as a coping mechanism

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