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I am feeling a little unsure of myself and confused...we are only on cycle 3, so I know that is not too long, but at the same time both of us are healthy, I am 25 so I am not sure why it isnt happening as quickly as I thought it would. I went into TTC very optimistic, and now i am starting to think more realistically. I am trying not to stress or worry, and just relax, and if I get pregnant within the next couple months I will be happy. Remaining positive, but more realistic. I am in the TWW now, so if this month is a fail, next month I am going to try preseed and charting my BBT.

@mrsjyw- Haha, that's funny what your gyno said.

I'm feeling good to be on my first cycle of TTC. It would be great if we do get pregnant but I'm also not getting my hopes up just in case we don't. I'm just happy that we are finally starting.

Today I'm not doing so great (AF just arrived after a 30 day LP that had me convinced I was preggo). Everyone and their sister seems to be pregnant around me, so its tough. But I know that there's a reason for everything, and the last 10 months of trying sure have taught me something about patience.

@MrsGreenGrass, yep, I'm sure. Charting obsessively. I took 5 tests @ home and 2 at the doctor, all were negative. My FIL died suddenly two weeks ago though, so I'm wondering if the stress had more of an impact on me than I thought. That's the first time its happened, for sure.

I am in a different mindset to you all! I have a beautiful 6 mo LO and we are trying for #2. I actually WANT AF to show up! I am nursing my LO and waiting for my cycle to return so we are back in the game. Due to my age the clock is seriously ticking, we really only have a small window to work with.

@2peasinapod - I'm sorry for your sister. I know that is so hard to go through.

I am in my 7th month trying. Last month hit me really hard because it was tough mentally going over the 6th month mark. Since I have some known fertility issues (endo), this month we are moving onto some fertility treatments so it makes me a little more hopeful...

First time posting!Im feeling really down a the moment, I tested yesterday,AF was 2 days late,and got 2 BFN`s and one invalid result (frustrating much?)Although this is our first cycle TTC we have spent over 12 months NTNTC (not trying not to conceive) and I stupidly had set my heart on this being our month. So at the moment Im disappointed and I know my husband is too,although Im not totally giving up until AF shows up!

AF showed up "early" (13 days coming off BC) last Friday, and I was really upset because I'd heard that you can get pg right after coming off BC. I hoped I'd be one of those lucky ones. Now I'm trying to figure out if this counts as Cycle 2? I'm not sure if it was a real period or just a weird coming-off-BC thing. Now that AF is gone. I bought one of those OP kits and used one this morning. Never try something for the first time ever when you are a zombie just haven woken up. ha!

MrsJYW- the cramps are unREAL aren't they?! I thought I was going crazy at the airport. I bought the ClearBlue month supply. $40 bucks, yikes! Well, this morning I tried it and I was inserting the strip the wrong way. It took me like an entire 3 minutes for me to figure out how to get the thing to "click" into place. Yeeeah, you line up the triangles. Not rocket science. ha ha! I got a blank circle, no smiley face yet. If my AF was a real one, then I'm thinking I won't see the smiley for at least another 10 days. I bought it because my sister started using one coming off her BC and got PG her first cycle trying!

We are Cycle 7, CD 6 and I'm kind of ho-hum right now. I was very optimistic Cycles 1-4 because I so naively started out thinking that once you had unprotected sex during your fertile time, getting pg was pretty much automatic.

I was really depressed and emotional during Cycle 5. Since it hadn't happened already, I felt like we would never get pg. During that cycle, Mrs. Green Grass, Running Elley, and MrsMCK and a few others gave me hope and encouragement from their stories and support (some of them have been trying for a lot longer than me and they still remain so positive most of the time!)

I didn't have my hopes up for Cycle 6 and I'm kind of feeling the same for this one. Timing wasn't ideal (ok, but not awesome) and this month is looking to be about the same. There's been nothing we can do about it, but hope and pray...so if Cycle 7 turns into Cycle 8, we will be hoping and praying for a BFP in 2012!

Best wishes to everyone TTC, whether its your first or your 14th month. I think we all go through the depressed, excited, nervous, anxious, happy, and sad times and I'm happy that we have each other for support.

@cyneswith: I'm very sorry that your husband is being re-deployed! I honestly think there should be some type of national recognition for army wives/girlfriends. You are very brave to deal with their being gone so long, and I appreciate what your husbands are doing. (I know this is waayyyy off topicbut I just had to add that little tidbit.) Good luck TTC, think of how great it would be to surprise him with a BFP while he's away

3 DPO and feeling anxious, hopeful, and paranoied becaused I know that I'll interpret every feeling as a potential symptom.

Oh, @MrsGreenGrass - I was hoping this might be your cycle. But super exciting about this next cycle - its so nice to try something new. Hopefully the Clomid is exactly what you need.
And I'm Canadian, but I'll take a day off of worrying. Except...it might be Friday, because Thursday is projected O-day.

I'm getting worried. We've been ntnt and plan to begin actively trying next month. Of course my perfectly regular 30day cycles are now 37 days long. I hope the quality over quantity rule applies to my cycles!

Trying to keep feeling upbeat this month. CD19 right now...11th high day in a row on my CBFM (crazyness!). FF has me O'ing on Thursday - so I'm really interested to see what CBFM does on that day.

I'm really hoping that the new things we're trying this month (PreSeed, Royal Jelly, Grapefruit Juice, CBFM, BD every other day) end up working out for us - but I also want to stay very realistic with myself and just let what will be, be.

@Mrs Green Grass: Sounds good to me! I could use a day (or two or three) where I relax a bit about the whole process. A small glass of wine sounds wonderful right about now

I'm sitting here at CD7. I went to my OB/GYN yesterday. Everything is good other than making sure to work out to get my weight down. She said to not let the weight discourage us from trying especially since she said that it can take on average 8 months to get pregnant. I'm relieved that my appointment went well. I just need to work on the working out part of it.

@cyneswith - I'm 3 DPO too! Fingers crossed that you get your BFP before/during the honeymoon - wouldn't that be a great gift? I'm trying to hold out testing until like 14DPO so I won't get disappointed.

Wishing you all luck and baby dust. I know how hard it can be, but you have a lot of support and aren't alone Try to stay strong and positive.

@ParkerHaus - I've totally been there. It just gets so frustrating after awhile, and so emotionally draining, that sometimes you need to just take a break. For me, it was right after my father-in-law was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer - I couldn't take all the emotions at once. Then when he died a few weeks later, I felt as though I needed to start trying again (I think my grief-stricken brain figured that if we conceived that cycle, it would be a boy, and we could name it after him).
Anyhow, long rant to say, I get it. And a roller coaster is only fun when you know you'll be able to get off shortly.