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@snowjewelz: For some reason your first sentence made me laugh hysterically. I never really thought about it that way - "I wouldn't be peeing on all of this stuff if I wasn't TTC, I usually try to keep my distance from my pee."

We waited (for better or worse) until we were very ready for a baby. I considered TTC to be part of the whole "baby / going to party of 3 journey" and wanted to be able to confidently say that TTC (and thus the subsequent baby that I hoped would result from it) was something I was ready and wanted to make a (potentially big) part of my life. Whenever my alarm woke me up at 4 AM to temp (I'm a restless sleeper and that was the only time I knew I had 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep), I reminded myself that if this all worked out, middle of the night wake-ups would be my norm.

I guess I likened it to anything I've done while still living life - a job search, studying for my certification exam, etc. It needs to be in your focus, but you still have to live life. It's all about balance... and some days will be tougher than others. Like the day when AF shows up.... HA!

I hope that makes sense and doesn't come off wrong.

Ideally I wanted to go into TTC with a relaxed attitude, just wait and see what happens for a few months. Reality is that I have a total Type A personality and it drives me crazy to not know things. I HAVE to know what's going on in my body or I get all antsy and fussy. My OCD about temping and charting and (soon) supplements and peeing on sticks is just a manifestation of my need to know. I know that my body will work at the pace it wants, but I just need things to DO in the mean time to understand what is going on in there.

We went into it very relaxed. I counted cycle days via an app to get a very general idea of fertile time, but otherwise we went with the flow. I was coming off years of bc, so I wanted to wait a few months to chart more thoroughly.

I originally went into it very relaxed and loosely tracking my period on a free app. I made my best guess at fertile days, but didn't really push anything. Since then, Ive slowly added more to the repertoire to try to understand.

I don't like the forced BDing, but I do like that I know we are going to stay connected on a regular basis. I don't mind OPKs and POAS, but I don't like the roller coaster of emotion you go through in that 5 mins til you get your results. I do like the hope and wonder and dreaming.

My biggest thing is realizing I can't put my life on hold while I'm TTC. If I had been pregnant the first month we tried, I'd be giving birth next month. So, I have to make TTC fit in my life. It's a priority, but it definitely doesn't run it.

We started TTC in a very relaxed NTNP kind of way. I just stopped taking the pill and let the chips fall where they may, but probably had a little more sex than we usually would.

After 6 months I started actually consciously having sex every other day from CD10-the day AF arrived.

After a year I got a little obsessive. Charting, OPK's, changed my diet, got tons of testing done for both me and DH.