trying for a baby

Fiancé and I have been ttc for about 3 months now, but haven’t had much luck. I think I had a chemical pregnancy during our first month of trying, but I’m not certain, as the days aren’t truly adding up. Around 7dpo I did get severe pelvic cramping and pain. It did however get better, and go...

Sorry this is long but I really need some advice. Please help. I have a 3 year old kid. When he turned two we started trying for a second baby. It took us 7 months to conceive (and got pregnant in Jan 2023) which in itself was a huge surprise as we conceived within a month for my eldest...

Hello Reddit family, My wife (30F) and I (31M) have been trying since last August 2022 with no success. All the tests have come back normal according to her OBGYN. Here are her test results and my SA results. Her OBGYN says we're young, enjoy and not to worry too much. But it's getting...

TFAB fam- I have been struggling with secondary infertility for about two years. My first pregnancy ended in live birth, and she is 3.5. She was conceived on our first attempt. My second pregnancy was conceived on our second attempt and ended in a miscarriage and D&C at 13 weeks. Since the D&C...

I am relatively new to this community and TTC. I bought OPK on Amazon, the easy@home kit, and using the pre-mom app. I've only been testing for less than 2 full months so I might be prematurely worrying, but my numbers are really low compared to what is considered the standard towards LH surge...

TW: loss I’m writing this post to tell my experience with my ectopic so others could maybe be encouraged to advocate more if they have suspicions and avoid losing a tube or worse. Welp, I’m back here after yet another loss — though this one turned out to be a ruptured ectopic at 6+0. They had...

I’ve come off birth control 4 months ago and I literally haven’t stopped bleeding since. Doctor doesn’t seem too concerned and said it was either my body coming off of birth control or a miscarriage. Sometimes I have a day where I stop bleeding but then I start again. It’s honestly getting me...

Hello all ! I'm anxious and need some internet cheering. For some context I hope to be pregnant soon with baby#2. For my first, he was kind of a oopsie (we had planned to try 2-3 months after finding out we were expecting). So for #2, I tried to be more prepared. I started to take prenatal...

I had a D&C around 3 months ago at 12+5 weeks. Was traumatic enough for my body, after an earlier loss and another D&C 3 months prior. I didn’t have a period for 8 weeks after and had to take cytotec to start my period as it showed on a scan the blood accumulated and was ready to flow but uterus...

I will finally begin going through the IUI process next month and am growing increasingly anxious about the need to miss work so often in the coming weeks. I work in a fairly small office and I really don’t want anyone to catch on to what I’m doing as rumors spread very quickly in such small...

This is just for science. I had a M/C in January using the Miso pill (very traumatic experience because I ended up in emergency because my gestational sac got stuck 🤦🏼‍♀️)... Anyway, since then I haven't had any symptoms that my period was coming. Usually I would have sore boobs and light...

Was just told I that we have to go back again and pay another $275 out of pocket because my husband's semen analysis came back as abnormal. Can anyone help explain his results to me? I have PCOS and was told I needed a semen analysis from my husband before I could continue with more Letrozole...

I guess I just thought it would happen by now. My fiancé and I are both 24. I haven’t spoken to a specialist because when I brought it up with my family doctor in December when we were 8 months TTC (I was having irregular periods and late ovulations) he said “no one would even look at you until...

After almost two years of TTC--2 1st tri MCs, 1 2nd tri MC, and a CP--here I go again. I don't have a chart (I tried! I don't sleep consistently enough to temp), but I can give you my breakdown. Note: I threw a lot of my typical TTC habits out the window this cycle because I stressed myself...

As far as names go, what are your general thoughts on using "S" names, but then substituting the S for a Z, while still using the same sound. I've suggested this a couple times, but SO isn't sold (hasn't said no yet, though).

I’ve been off Metformin since February (my doc doesn’t want to give me a refill before my next follow up) and now my period have been strange again. They asked me to get blood work done before my appointment soon. My results are in from my CD3 bloodwork and my HSG results form 2 months ago. I'm...

Today we are going to discuss a time of mystery, a time of endless possibility, a time of progesterone: the luteal phase. (Despite my clickbait title, the length of the typical luteal phase can vary from about 10 to about 16 days, and 12 days is actually the most common length. Don’t believe...

Apologies for using a throwaway account. My husband (33M) got back his SA results yesterday. We have tried to Google every number on the report and read through the stickied thread on r/maleinfertility from @glenn62 and we're slightly more confused about how bad these numbers are. We are...

Before reading, it might be helpful to see these previous posts by /@mcg1102: OPK patterns, LH profiles, and you Digital OPKs: a primer With an uptick in folks using apps like Premom and Femometer to determine OPK positivity, I thought this might be a good overview of what those LH ratio...

Hi- just wanted to share my experience and maybe commiserate with those in the same/similar boat. I’m 42(f), husband is 46(m), we have a 7 year old who we conceived with no medication/intervention. We tried for 1 month and got pregnant immediately! That’s where the luck all ran out. We have been...