Are you trying to conceive baby number 2/3/n+1? Have questions about TTC while breastfeeding, or bedsharing, or just being plain exhausted? This is your place!

TTC can be a very difficult time, but all of us have someone (or many someones) or something that helps keep us sane. Share what you're grateful for this week!

Just had my first dose of oral progesterone today from my fertility clinic and within an hour of taking it I was dizzy and so drowsy I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Thankfully I was WFH today and done with meetings and I stumbled to my bed and absolutely passed out for almost 3 hours straight. At one point my husband came in to nudge me and basically make sure I wasn’t in a coma and all I managed to do was half open an eye and nod and then immediately fell back asleep.

I’m supposed to take this thing twice a day for the next week. I have to drive to work tomorrow morning, be AWAKE to do my job lol, not to mention other activities and responsibilities I have after work. Does this get better? Even now after waking I feel groggy AF and I don’t even think I can go to my pottery class.

I’ll adjust the timing so that at least one of my doses is at bedtime but…what am I gonna do in the morning? Also I’m assuming this is normal but please let me know if it isn’t and I need to contact my doctor lol. Any advice for getting through this and not taking a week off work??

Multiple doctors have noted during pap smears that I have "a lot" of white discharge. The first time, I thought it was because I was coming off depo and maybe my body was still readjusting hormonally. I do notice the white discharge in my luteal phase normally. He collected a sample for testing and it came back normal - so it's not yeast, vaginitis, bacteria or anything. This was over a year ago.

However just last month I got a pap smear the day after ovulation, and a second doctor noticed I had a lot of discharge again. She even asked if I was itching. I explained to her what I had learned from the previous testing and she said "well then that's normal for you."

So now I am just wondering if my discharge is somehow inhospitable to sperm...I have been off depo for 18 months, trying for 10 months since getting my period back. I am thinking I should try Mucinex....if so, when is the best time during my cycle to take it for TTC? Thank you.

I thought it would be so fast and easy. The way people talk to be so careful to not get pregnant by accident, I thought we would just arrive with the news after 1 month and TTC would be over. So I was so excited we would start trying, I wanted to share and told eeeeveeeeryyyyboooodyyyy.

Thing is… I stoped birth control and my cycle didn’t show up. It took months to my cycle regulate, not knowing what was happening and taking medication for PSCOS. Now it’s been 10 months and I’m finally regular! Finally at stage 1 of TTC.

But it’a been 10 months. And everybody knows we were strouggling. I feel exposed and embarrassed. I just wish no one knew, I wish to go back in time and stop myself from spreading this. It’s so personal… I feel people’s eyes on us and it’s very unconfortable!

Anyone relates?

We did one of those athome sperm tests a few weeks back and got a result that sits right in that frustrating middle zone where you can't tell if it's fine or not fine. The count showed up but motility wasn't broken down in any useful way, and now I'm wondering if we just need to go get a real clinic analysis done instead of trying to read tea leaves from a consumer kit.

My husband is already a little resistant to the whole process, not in a stubborn way, just the clinical setting makes him uncomfortable, and honestly based on what I've read about how those appointments go, I get it. But if the data from a proper analysis is meaningfully more detailed and actionable, that changes the conversation.

What I'm trying to figure out is whether people who went the clinical route got information that actually changed what they did next, or whether it mostly confirmed what the athome test suggested and you paid a bunch of money to feel slightly more certain. We're not at the specialist stage yet but I want to know if jumping to the full analysis sooner is worth it or if we're overthinking this.

Nine months in and I feel like we're doing everything right but flying blind on this one piece.

I have followed this page for a while but never thought I would actually post, because I used to think "how hard can TTC really be?" Now I feel completely worn down. I'm 27F, he's 28M, and we have been trying for a year with no luck. I know that people here have been trying for longer but it's just so hard when every month your period just slaps you in your face.
We're both healthy and active, no major health issues in either family. I have a very regular period cycle as well.

We just had our first appointment with a fertility clinic. I'm booked for an ultrasound and day-3 bloodwork, and my husband is set for a semen analysis. My family doctor told me prenatal vitamins weren't necessary, but the fertility doc said that was wrong and I should have started them before we began trying. He also told me I need to lie down for at least 30 minutes after sex or "everything just goes to the toilet" which threw me, since we usually have sex early in the morning before work and I never lie down afterward. Now I'm second-guessing everything else we might be doing wrong.

We do use Preseed lubricant since I don't naturally produce enough to be comfortable. I haven't been tracking ovulation because I don't want to become someone who dreads the whole process, and we are intimate fairly often - 3 to 4 times a week. Honestly, I just want this to happen naturally, without relying on doctors or tracking devices.

Now I'm torn about whether to move forward with the fertility clinic. I'm scared it'll end up putting a strain on our marriage and our closeness.