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"Just forget about it and it will happen 2"

So get this....

My one and only friend who was in the same boat as myself - unexplained infertility - has just told me that she is now pregnant.  GREAT!  That leaves me all by myself in trying to deal with this situation that has yet again been thrown at my face.  She called to tell me on the phone and to be honest, all I could do was start crying.  She was so happy and so excited to tell me the news....and all I could get out of me was a whimper and a quiet congratulations.  I am happy for her...really I am, but I just could not take the news...it was as if all the light around me faded at that exact moment.  I am all by myself in this now....all alone....no one I can talk to, no one who understands what I am going through, no one to sympathize.

Even more frustrating is the fact that she threw at me the one and only comment that just eats at me...."You just have to forget about it Sue and it will happen...look at us!".   Ok - so you want me to follow your example.  I wish it was that easy.  The Catch 22 of it all is that she is the one who is pregnant and I am still the one who is not. 

So I put it out there to all of you in cyber-space:  How do you cope when you are the one last person, amongst all your friends and family, who is still trying?


Posted 07-13-2010 12:37 PM by Suebaby14

Comments

Duck22 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-13-2010 2:19 PM

One day just turns into the next, you keep putting a brave face on and without realising it life just keeps going and you cope with it somehow. Dont forget the most important thing is your relationship with your partner.

And you are not alone you have all your cyber-space friends who feel all your pain.

Good luck and I hope the dark days are over for you very very soon!

Helmi wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-13-2010 3:14 PM

I can understand it feels terrible! But just keep in mind that there are many of us here at TCOYF who are still coping with the same problem. So you are not so alone.  Keep strong and believe it will happen to you too!

Suebaby14 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-14-2010 8:53 AM

It is good to know that there are people out there who understand what I am going through...I am not alone and I have to remember to keep telling myself that....

Thanks for the words of encouragement - it is good to know you are all there!

guajolote wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-16-2010 10:13 PM

Would you rather she hadn't told you? "Thrown in your face" makes it sound like she was vindictive in having told you.

But her comment about "just forget" or whatever is TOTALLY insensitive.

Suebaby14 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-20-2010 8:53 AM

GUaranteed there was no vindication intended...I was trying to show how it feels as if when people tell you they are pregnant, it is thrown in my face in the sense that it hits me like a ton of bricks whenever someone tells this to me.

Sorry for the mis-representation.

Samlovesgordon wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-20-2010 4:51 PM

its awful- im the last one too, there is no way to describe how frustrating and lonely it is- and the waiting each month to find out. God half the people in my workplace are pregnant. I hate it when people say "it will happen, you just need to be patient". Three years is patient, and there is no sure way to know it will happen. So I sympathize.

zantingh26 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-21-2010 9:32 AM

I totally understand...when TTC it seems like the entire world is prego!!  My SIL (same age as me) just announced that she is PG w/#4 and they weren't even trying... then she tells me everyone's favourite line - "just relax, don't think about it, go away for a weekend and all of a sudden you will be pg..."

At first I, of course, cried about it.  Then I wanted to just stop TTC #1 until she has her #4.  But then I became sane again and I know it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing or thinking - it's b/w me & my DH & God's plan for our own family.

I don' t know if that helps...but I'm with ya!

Suebaby14 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-21-2010 3:51 PM

Ah how the sanity comes and goes....

When the days are bad they are bad....but when the days are good they are great!  I guess we have to hold on to those good days!

Today was a bad day....had an appt with my gyno and I walked in to her clinic waiting room and I was the only non-pregnant person there...literally the only one....more details to follow in my next blog post.....ouph

Thanks for the support!!!!!

mce120210 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-22-2010 3:51 PM

I understand I keep wondering when it will be my turn. My mom is the one who told me to just relax and forget and it will happen when you least expect it. Very hard to do when I have bad O pain's and any little change I think maybe this month will be it KWIM? good luck and I hope things will change for the better for all who are on this journey.

rgriffin wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 07-27-2010 8:59 PM

I tried for 4 years to get pregnant. I finally did and then I miscarried. It was horrible. My friend who gets pregnant when her husband looks at her prayed for me to conceive. Then my SIL told me to eat spinach because it makes you fertile. That was when spinach was killing people. So I ate collard greens 2x's a day for a month and omg I was so fertile. We got pregnant after one try. It was tough for me to stop thinking about getting pg. Turns out thinking about it more helped. Praying for you!

Suebaby14 wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 08-08-2010 8:27 PM

I have heard that leafy greens are very good for fertility!

My acupuncture says KELP is one of the best!

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Waiting4Stork wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 08-20-2010 9:18 PM

I'm in the same boat: unexplained infertility with a early miscarriage a couple months ago (charting helped me see the early miscarriage).  Had a HSG last week & hope that I finally get pregnant & it sticks, but don't want to get too excited because I've gotten used to seeing the negative signs on the pregnancy tests.  I know it's hard to deal with, especially with others around announcing their pregnancy (I have 2 co-workers that are pregnant that come see me everyday and show me their glowing faces & growing belles).  It will never be easy but the only thing we can do is try and not stress ourseleves out in effort to not delay ovulation so that we can try again & again.  

My husband & I started taking Mucinex 1200 (expectorant, delayed release) each day during the fertile phase to see if this created more fertile CM to aid the sperm (which it did for me!).  We also had sex in 10 hr incruments on ovulation day to make sure that we gave the sperm a chance to fertilize the egg since eggs last 12-24 hrs and then die out if not fertilized.  We also had sex the morning of the rise.  I'll let you know if any of these changes proved to be successful.  I'll corss my fingers for us all!

tigerlilly wrote re: "Just forget about it and it will happen 2"
on 08-24-2010 5:43 AM

I've been TTC #1 with my DF officially for five months now, but I've been in TTC land for the past three years. I also feel so contrary and awful as each and every friend and family member who announces that they're pg and didn't even try for that long hits me like a ton of bricks. I also hate hearing, "Don't worry. It will happen soon", etc etc.

Or old classmates I'm still in touch with tell me, "We're so jealous of your life. Be thanksful for what you have." Yes, well, they were all too chicken to lead the kind of life I live and I find it very insensitive for them to say these sorts of things, too. They have no idea what I've been through nor the difficult and treacherous road it has been to find my DF....  

I've had a bad week this week as I was really hoping to have a successful ovulation when I got a really nasty cold one week before ovulation was due, and I got off the track with my temps and although I had some physical signs of ovulation, it doesn't look like it happened. It barely happened if at all during the past several months either as obviously nothing has happened.... I'm a Master's student and teacher, haven't started the new school year yet and I'm in this in-between phase where I don't have a fixed schedule and I have a lot to do, a lot of work to do on my memoire, errands, etc, but I've been in bed feeling completely lifeless for the past two days...

I have to make an appt with the gyn, and it's difficult to get gyn appts here in France, so I don't know how much longer I'm going to have to wait to find out if it's me or my DF or both... In any case, I'm dreading it.

I do know an acupuncturist that I plan to see in the meantime as being in TTC land has been driving me crazy....

I feel your pain along with everyone else. And much luck to Waiting4Stork.

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