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TTC for 3 mnths

It seems like everyone is getting pregnant but me. My sister is 13 weeks with her 3rd child. All my friends are having babies. I am 24 and my husband (27) have been together over 4 years and married over 2. He has a son from a previous relationship. We both are doing well in our careers and we bought our first house a year after we got married. We are pretty much on a great timeline. Sounds great huh? Well I am definitely upset with this whole TTC. I stopped taking birth control about a year ago because I missed 2 or 3 days and so I decided to stop until the next month.

Well I really liked the way I felt off the pill, I was happier, wanted sex more, just basically I felt better off the pill. We were not ready to have children yet so we just decided to try not to get pregnant and be careful about times we had sex and pulling out and squeezing out and stuff like that. Well we decided to start trying 3 months ago. Were on our 3rd month trying. I do not want to have my period again. I started taking 800 mcg of folic acid about 6 months ago because I read it reduces risk of birth defects by 70%. So I am ready to have a child now. Every month I have charted my cycle. I have a perfect 28-day cycle and my periods start on the exact day they are supposed to. I assumed it would be faster, really on the first month I cried all day when my period came. The day before I was supposed to start I had the worst period cramps I had ever had in my entire life.

We were on vacation and I couldn't get out of the bed my stomach hurt so badly. So I figured well this is different, we must be pregnant. Nope the next day I got my period and it was so painful. Second month trying I was kind of like whatever if it comes it comes. Now it is the third month and I am super anxious. My ovulation day was 2 days ago and I am sick to my stomach that I have to wait 2 weeks to find out. Can't there be any way to speed up this process. My husband and me have had sex every single day since my last period ended so there is an absolute chance I could have done it this time. I hate that there are so many people going through this and some are never able to conceive. My thoughts and prayers are with each of you.


b

Could I be?

I have been really tired for the past few weeks. My period should have started by now and I get nausea when I wake up and cannot eat breakfast any longer first thing in the morning. My boobs have been sore and I have been peeing constantly. Am I pregnant? I have taken five tests and so far all negatives.

b

Maybe

My husband and I got married on Aug. 4th, two days after the wedding we moved to NC from IL!!!! We knew we wanted to have children right away, but we have been together for over three years and never really used protection. I've never been pregnant so I'm not sure what to expect all I do know is I'm tired, moody, my breasts hurt, I feel like I have to pee all the time and I just FEEL pregnant. I can't test for sure until the 6th of September. Everyone cross your fingers!!


Brandy

Pregnancy

Well, here is my story. I am a Student and only 16 years old. I met this guy, who loves me to bits. We didn’t know whether we should do it or wait until we got older, but all of my friends and his friends were teasing us and saying that we were so weird saving it until we get older instead of doing it now because like you never know you could die tomorrow and never know what it feels like to have sex.

So we decided that we should do it. So one night I went over his place and we were watching television his parents were getting ready to go out and they well I think they were kind of suspicious at what we were going to do, and his mum said "You kids don’t be naughty now", and then they left. Then we started kissing each other and started feeling each other, then I started to unbutton his pants.... well you should know what it led to.

Then two weeks later I found out I was pregnant! I wasn’t ready for this; I kept thinking to myself, is this really happening...Is this really happening...But it was, it was really happening.
I hadn't told my boyfriend yet because I knew that he wasn't ready to be a dad, but I had to tell him I had no choice. So I went to school and I told him, he didn’t believe me at first but then he was silent for a while and then he asked me if I was serious and I said YES. So he looked after me everyday, even on the weekends. We hadn't told our parents because we were waiting to see if we were going to keep this baby or not!

But then I decided to tell my parents and my boyfriend came with me, and my parents were alright with it but I knew deep down they were really sad. So I went with him to tell his parents, his parents were not happy at all they kicked him out of the house, and then I went and asked my parents if he could stay with us, my parents said yes but only because he was the dad of my baby. In the end I decided to keep my baby, and now my baby is 10 months old my parents are so excited because they get to live with and help me look after their Grandchild...

But I just want to say to all of you teenagers out there, don’t have sex just because all of your friends are doing it, you have to wait until you are ready and are positive that you will always be there for your child.


Brandy

Choices

I dated my boyfriend for a year and a half. Everything was perfect and we were intimate frequently. After a while we stopped using condoms and didn’t think much about it. Well... I graduated top of my class and received a full academic scholarship to a school in Florida although I lived in Georgia. My boyfriend received a full scholarship for football to a school in Alabama. Things started to turn bad the summer before college after graduation so we made the decision to call it quits. The day before leaving for school I had to get a physical and my assumptions and suspicions were confirmed... I’m pregnant.

So now I'm alone in Florida left to make the decision if I should keep the baby growing inside of me that I’ve already learned to love or if I should continue my education and get rid of my baby. My ex boyfriend wants the child although I can tell he doesn’t love me anymore and my mom thinks I should have an abortion. Everyone knows except me so ladies out there control your own fate and make wise decisions so that you can always have the best of both worlds and never have to give up one for the other.


Marissa