How do I take my mind off ttc and relax

[3wishes]

Wish I could take my mind off ttc and relax like everyone keeps saying but how do you forget about it? Maybe one idea is to stop coming on here lol

 

[heres_hoping]

Ugh I wish I knew too. I feel like I've tried everything to relax, but I'm afraid going to the fertility clinic and being pumped full of hormones is the OPPOSITE of relaxing. Ad it's even tougher not to think about it all the time :/

All I can suggest is try and find a new hobby/plan a holiday/keep yourself busy. It's doesn't work completely, but may help.

 

[3wishes]

Hi it's soooo annoying I've been on holiday to help but all the time I was there in the back of my mind I was thinking oh maybe I'll conceive on holiday. Right now I just feel like I don't want to think about it at all totally forget and just get on with life. Just feels like my life is on hold.
What fertility treatment are you having at the moment.
I've had 6 rounds of clomid but it didn't work for me

 

[heres_hoping]

Yes I can totally relate to that. We were on vacation last week and I was the same, still thinking about it all the time. in fact I got AF whilst I was there so it kinda spoilt it!

I'm on clomid round five of six at the moment, it is working in that I'm getting a regular 28 day cycle, but no BFP yet.

 

[3wishes]

Yep I came on on the last day of my holiday I was gutted. Fingers crossed it works for you x

 

[DAISYPRENCESS]

Hi, I just want to join to the conversation. I am waiting for my hsg and all in my mind is what the rest will be. It is very difficult to think about something else when you want to have a baby and you feel your life so empty.

 

[mmdrago]

To be honest, I don't think you can make yourself relax. I'm back into full force obsession TTC now, and doing fertility treatments. But there was a period of time in between these nearly 4 years that I let go and didn't think about it hardly at all. It wasn't forced and it wasn't a conscious decision. Deep down I felt that I needed a break and I was able to let go and let it happen. I don't think you can relax until you truly accept that you need a break.

 

[Myshelsong]

Relaxing is the hardest part for me. I am so stressed out about it and it is so all consuming that I really have a hard time to just "Chill

I decided I needed some time to figure out how to just calm down so I started doing Yoga to relax and take away some of the stress ..... may not work every night but starting to see that I am a little bit more relaxed or calm.
I stopped temping and charting and checking my cm completely because it was an obsession. I would wake up in the morning and that was the first thing I was thinking about was if my temp dipped or jumped or if that was ewcm or something else ... It was all encompassing. I think that is the best thing I could have done was just spot thinking about it first thing in the morning. I do have pretty regular cycles so if you have to temp just to see if you are ovulating that will probably not work for you.

 

[Bumblebeee]

I totally understand where you're coming from, and I don't think you can just force yourself to relax, in my case it just made me more tense! I tried for 3 years to conceive my daughter and it got me so worked up - ovulation tests daily, worrying if there was something wrong with md, would I ever conceive, only 1 frigging line on the test again , it really is so tough but you don't realise until you're being put through it. My bfp came on the 17th Feb 2012, and I can say that I had chilled out at the time. We'd just had Christmas and Valentine's Day, I was looking forward to a break away & I was starting to enjoy work again. I didn't know it at the time but I had relaxed, and I swear that Pregnacare Conception vitamins helped loads too as I had been taking prenatals the whole time, the same own brand store ones and as my new year's resolution in '12 was to do everything possible to conceive (diet, get a hobby to relax, keep myself busy so that thoughts didn't consume me), I decided to fork out the £17 a box (although I got them on 3 for 2) and I had a few tablets left of the first pack when I got my bfp. I am now considering ttc #2 but I am so nervous incase it takes the same length of time and I get those damn evil thoughts back... All the best to you

 

[3wishes]

I think we all need something that wipes the ttc part out of our memory

 

[elle1986]

Hi

Hope you don't mind me butting in. I really want to try and forget this TTC i am going out of my mind. I feel like i can't do anyhting else with my life.

xx

 

[DAISYPRENCESS]

Hi

Hope you don't mind me butting in. I really want to try and forget this TTC i am going out of my mind. I feel like i can't do anyhting else with my life.

xx

Horrible feeling, isn't it? Every day I tell myself "I need to find something else to think about". I am not very good in this but I am trying . GL.