Confession time - share your bitter moments of jealousy while TTC

hee hee, i agree! A friend said this to me last week though and it kinda made me feel better. 'It taking that long meant that i got Alex, not any other egg that could have given me a totally different child'
So i'm trying to keep believing that if it takes it's time it's because my baby isnt ready yet, and i want the baby that God has in mind for me xx

this is what i try to believe for me too... im trying to believe there is a reason why im not preg yet..

well my jealousy and been there from the start and is worse then im ok just depends what head space im in.. but my cousin is just about to have her 3rd.. and she got preg the first month.. where as i was on my 4th and shes 30 and im 19... :shrug: not that age as anything to do with it.. its just the person who told me in school between 16-21 never have sex cuz you could get preg first time was a liar :rofl:
 
coworker got pregnant. we tested together and i got bfn, she got bfp. she wasn't trying, she was doing drugs, drinking, smoking.. and continued to drink AND smoke after the bfp! in front of me! yes, she would pop open a beer in the salon at the front desk and drink it right there, while poking out her baby bump :nope: she ended up losing the baby a few weeks later.
 
its hard not to feel jealous my best mate is having a baby in 4 weeks, all my mates have babies which doesn't help when your trying i try hard not to show any feelings just excitement for them my mate has been trying for 2 years and lost 3 so im really happy for her she's waited a while and had a rough time she knows hows hard it is and how we all feel which is good to have a some understand what we are going through.

i tend to find myself feeling sad every time i go shopping and see someone with a bump it's bad i know but it makes you feel sad and so impatient!
i know my time will come x
 
Ok well you said it, confession time.

I get happy for people when they have been trying at least 6 months or more and have struggled. It is so hard for me to not get upset when someone I know or someone on here gets pregnant before 6 months. Well maybe the first, second or third month.

You have those who obsess over every little symptom and say they have it all then they get a negative and continue the same dramatic tones next cycle and then finally after a few cycles they get their bfp, THEN they try and tell you to RELAX! Hmph? Don't you remember what it's like to TTC? Do you remember the pain you felt when someone else got their bfp then continued to post on threads all the time with their big sign that says "Pregnant" and then keep talking about what you are naming your baby, how happy you are it only took a few months, etc etc. I come on here to discuss it and get ideas and vent to others who feel like I do, not to have your pregnancy banner and tests waived in my face. One or two times is enough for me.

I have a sister in law who found she was pregnant on her first month trying (for #2) a month after we told the family we were TTC. She is now due next month. I wouldv'e been due next month if I got pregnant when I thought I would..... :sad2: My cousin John and his 'new' fiance are having twins "a boy and a girl" (how green I am because of that), my sister got pregnant last april her first month TTC and then complained about gaining weight etc while pregnant. :cry: Everyone in the family says my DH and I are the nicest most caring and generous people in the whole family and we will be rewarded some day. Well all the mean, uncaring and selfish people in the family are the ones having children. WTF? :shrug: Oh well, I needed to vent.

Thanks
 
Things like this!! - - -

"Omg I got a :bfp: !!"
"Really, aww congratualtions hun :hugs:
"Yeah we were only trying 4 months"

:growlmad:
 
Things like this!! - - -

"Omg I got a :bfp: !!"
"Really, aww congratualtions hun :hugs:
"Yeah we were only trying 4 months"

:growlmad:

Oh my yes, I saw somewhere recently someone going on and on about how they just couldn't believe they finally got their BFP, and then I saw that they said it took them 3 whole months!! Grrr, lol. I know it seems like plenty long to them, but gosh darn it, each month you try the feelings seem to multiply exponentially!
 
I can totally relate...

My husband and I have been together for 8 years, married for one. I have had babies on the brain for the past few years, but hubby and I both wanted to get married, move out of our apartment and buy our first home together, and find decent insurance for me. My close family knew how excited we were to start trying, and I had talked to my mom and grandma multiple times about it as this summer approached!

Well... long story short here. My brother (who had just turned 20) and his girlfriend (who was 24, but acted more like 15) who had been dating for about a month, met up with me and my husband at a restaurant. We were just supposed to go out and eat, nothing special. Well, we get there, and we are sitting waiting for our food and my brother tells me that they are pregnant. My blood literally ran cold. All his gf did was sit there with a smug smile on her face, like she was happy about it. Don't get me wrong, I love my brother so much, but how she could be happy about getting pregnant to a 20 year old kid that you have only known for a month, that has no job and lives at home with his parents is beyond me. To this day, everyone in my family thinks that she "oopsed" him. (She told him she was on BCP's... no reason for him to not take 'other' precautions but still ughhhh.) Not only that, but she had been drinking and taking meds for a cold in the past few weeks!

I remember that the olympics were playing on one of the tv's at the restaurant, and all I could do was stare at the screen. I couldn't even say anything... my heart was in my throat and if I would've made a peep I would've started bawling. Then, my brother looks at me and says "Well, you don't need to make this awkward".

I freaked.

After hissing a few choice words at him, I turned to my husband. "Get the check, we are leaving. Now". He just sat and stared at me for a few seconds, so I turned around and left. I literally could not take being in that restaurant for one more second.

I cried for DAYS. It felt like my whole world was turned upside down. I had wanted this for years, and we were getting SO CLOSE, I felt like we had just done everything the way that we were supposed to and that we DESERVED to be able to give my parents their first grandchild as we had worked so hard to get where we were, and been RESPONSIBLE about it. I was furious at them, I felt like they had taken away something from me that I would never be able to get back. The worst part of the whole story is this though... earlier that day my brother and I were hanging out and he had told me that he was thinking of breaking up with her (he had no idea that she was pregnant at this point in time, as she tested right before we met up that evening).

It's been a few months and I've gotten over the searing pain of the situation, but everytime I see them, it is like rubbing salt in a wound. My brother and I used to be inseparable, and that has all changed. It rocked my entire family.

I remember my mom telling me how when my brother and his gf told her and my dad, that my parents were upset, but didn't yell at them or anything. Next thing you know, the gf is telling my brother that until my parents apologize for being upset, she isn't speaking to them. (Mind you, she will walk through the house to visit my brother without saying a word to either of my parents, I could literally slap the snot out of her...) My mom was a zombie for a few weeks... thankfully she is starting to get better though, and focusing on how nice it will be when me and my husband start trying.

The main reason that I forced myself to get over it and move on is the fact that being so stressed was completely messing up my cycles. I have NEVER missed a period since I first got it, and after that whole mess I got really irregular and my cycles got super long. Knowing that my husband and I still want to start trying this summer, I knew in my head that I just needed to let everything go and take care of my own body. Focusing more on that has made dealing with the whole thing easier, I think.

Well, thanks for reading, sorry it was so long. I no way am I knocking anyone here... I know that things happen unexpectedly and that they can be a blessing, and also I'm not saying that you should be married etc before you have a child. Just this specific situation had me really upset, and it's nice to be able to let it all out :blush:

I can kind of relate to what your saying in terms having having the first grandchild. . .
Me and my OH both want to give his Gradma her first Great Grandchild :flower:

For me it won't be the end of the world if one of his cousins 'beat us to it' but I do worry that they will :wacko:

I think this is mainly because they're are lot of Grandchildren in his family. . . 12, I think?
And at least 4 or 5 especially 3 have the potential to pip us to the post
And I kinda of feel that once there's one Great Grandchild they'll be loads iykwim?
I know all Great Grandchildren be special but :shrug:

Wow, considering I said this doesn't bother me that much I sure let a lot out there.
Maybe I feel more strongly about it than I thought?

xx
 
Hi ladies,

This is my first post/rant. I've been a long time lurker but couldn't resist posting to this thread. I've wanted children for many years but for various reasons we've WTC and this is now our second month TTC. I know that doesn't give me the right to feel jealous of people but I've longed for a baby for such a long time now and my cousin has just had a baby and its breaking my heart.
My cousin has always insisted that she didn't want children, she even went so far as saying she felt sorry for people that had babies. When she found out she was pregnant she made an appointment to have an abortion then changed her mind based on the fact that she suspected she was having a baby girl. She told a mutual friend of ours that if she knew for sure that she was having a boy or red haired baby she would have went ahead with the abortion ...that just makes me so angry and upset! :nope: She had her baby last month and low and behold its a little girl. She's beside herself with happiness and seems to forget the fact that she planned to terminate the pregnancy.
The baby is beautiful but I cant help feel torn apart with jealousy. I know if I so much as thought about an abortion that karma would bite me on the ass and take care of the sitution for me. Another friend of mine has just got her BFP and I'm throughly delighted for her cos she's been trying for a long time. I'm generally not a jealous person but somehow everything always works out for my cousin and it makes me so mad :growlmad:
 
Its reassuring to see that I am not the one feeling J everytime I hear about someone getting pregnant (and then later feeling bad that I was being jealous).

But these days, I don't dare call any friend for fear that they will announce their pregnancy. And every time I hear some friend's news (especially when it goes something like "ohh we just tried for a month") I can't help feeling bitter.

Am I just a bad person or only human?
 
I can kind of relate to what your saying in terms having having the first grandchild. . .
Me and my OH both want to give his Gradma her first Great Grandchild :flower:

For me it won't be the end of the world if one of his cousins 'beat us to it' but I do worry that they will :wacko:

I think this is mainly because they're are lot of Grandchildren in his family. . . 12, I think?
And at least 4 or 5 especially 3 have the potential to pip us to the post
And I kinda of feel that once there's one Great Grandchild they'll be loads iykwim?
I know all Great Grandchildren be special but :shrug:

Wow, considering I said this doesn't bother me that much I sure let a lot out there.
Maybe I feel more strongly about it than I thought?

xx

I worry that my grandmother won't be here to see her great grandchild if I don't hurry up and get pregnant soon! :( I'm the only one of her grandchildren who is even close to having a kid (my brother will not be able to have children - long and sad story there, my cousins on that side of the family are younger/single.. guess they could beat me to it, but I sure hope not since they'd be single or teen parents!).
 
Hi ladies,

This is my first post/rant. I've been a long time lurker but couldn't resist posting to this thread. I've wanted children for many years but for various reasons we've WTC and this is now our second month TTC. I know that doesn't give me the right to feel jealous of people but I've longed for a baby for such a long time now and my cousin has just had a baby and its breaking my heart.
My cousin has always insisted that she didn't want children, she even went so far as saying she felt sorry for people that had babies. When she found out she was pregnant she made an appointment to have an abortion then changed her mind based on the fact that she suspected she was having a baby girl. She told a mutual friend of ours that if she knew for sure that she was having a boy or red haired baby she would have went ahead with the abortion ...that just makes me so angry and upset! :nope: She had her baby last month and low and behold its a little girl. She's beside herself with happiness and seems to forget the fact that she planned to terminate the pregnancy.
The baby is beautiful but I cant help feel torn apart with jealousy. I know if I so much as thought about an abortion that karma would bite me on the ass and take care of the sitution for me. Another friend of mine has just got her BFP and I'm throughly delighted for her cos she's been trying for a long time. I'm generally not a jealous person but somehow everything always works out for my cousin and it makes me so mad :growlmad:

The longing is still there, even if you haven't been actively trying for long. Hope you don't have to go through too many months TTC! After a few months, the fear starts to build that something is wrong and you'll never get there... and each pregnancy announcement is like hearing that everyone else is fine, but something is wrong with you etc... Thats the feeling I was referring to as getting worse exponentially each month. I've only been TTC for 8 months, though without ovulating I got scared a lot faster about something being wrong, LOL. On clomid now, so FX'd crossed. I know how much harder each month has been for me.. I can't imagine how hard it gets at 18 months etc... I just can't even begin to imagine that and know it must be a LOT harder than what I'm feeling!
 

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