Welcome and FTTA!

I am starting this blog at what I hope is near the end of my TTC journey. I haven’t been on this path as long as some, but as I spent hours talking to my friend Kat (comparing notes, charts, results from doctor’s visits, basically every thing but our CM) and browsing message boards in which girls discuss their TTC stories, something occurred to me.

There are women all over the place watching their friends get easily (or worse – accidentally *shuddering*) KU. They put on happy faces, brave the dreaded Babies ‘R Us to buy presents, attend baby showers, ooh and ahh at their friend’s ultrasounds. And then, they all go home and bawl their eyes out.

Sure, these ladies can comfort themselves with ice cream and thoughts about how at least they can still drink beer and coffee and go out for sushi, but the truth is, we all are just dying to give that stuff up and get round and fat and to have morning sickness and swollen feet and bad skin. We may say that we’re in no hurry, or that we are really truly happy for DH’s friend who somehow didn’t realize that unprotected sex could get his 21 year old girlfriend of 6 months pregnant, but we’d give up all the delicious spicy tuna rolls in the world to be able to have it happen to us.

What ladies like us need is a voice and some recognition. We need a Girlfriend’s Guide to Trying Desperately to Conceive, and everyone that got pregnant the first time they tried, should be forced to read it. I would totally write a book and try to make some money off of it myself, but I have AF to wait for, my BBT to take, my CP and CM to check, my FMU to gather for my OPK, the BD to do, my DPO to count, my FMU to gather for my HPT, AND THEN, once I get my BFN again this month, I have to do it all over again. With all that going on, I figured a blog would have to do.

(By the way, for a guide to the many TTC acronyms, check out here or here).