Rant: What do you hate most about TTC

[Anonymous]

* Seeing the Facebook announcement that my cousin's 25-yeal old wife is pregnant with her second (their first is only a year old) when we have been trying everything we can to give my DD a sibling for four years. All we have to show for it is two missed mc's and D&C's and one chemical pregnancy.

* My DD telling me everyday that she wants a brother and sister; my DD being the only one in her preschool class who doesn't have one.

* Not being able to afford IVF, and thinking how unfairly expensive it is; getting angry that there is not a better system in place in this country.

* Getting my hopes up every month but nothing happening.

* Always magically seeing a million women with pregnant bellies every time I get my period.

* Having the feeling that I am a failure and that all of these pregnant women are superior to me.

* Angry that I did not have the opportunity to get married until well into my thirties and that my fertility apparently tanked a few years later. Thinking of how unfair it is that some of us have such a short window.

I am so grateful for my beautiful, wonderful DD, but it makes me so sad to think that she will ever feel alone someday because she does not have a sibling due to my failures as a person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:* Seeing the Facebook announcement that my cousin's 25-yeal old wife is pregnant with her second (their first is only a year old) when we have been trying everything we can to give my DD a sibling for four years. All we have to show for it is two missed mc's and D&C's and one chemical pregnancy.

* My DD telling me everyday that she wants a brother and sister; my DD being the only one in her preschool class who doesn't have one.

* Not being able to afford IVF, and thinking how unfairly expensive it is; getting angry that there is not a better system in place in this country.

* Getting my hopes up every month but nothing happening.

* Always magically seeing a million women with pregnant bellies every time I get my period.

* Having the feeling that I am a failure and that all of these pregnant women are superior to me.

* Angry that I did not have the opportunity to get married until well into my thirties and that my fertility apparently tanked a few years later. Thinking of how unfair it is that some of us have such a short window.

I am so grateful for my beautiful, wonderful DD, but it makes me so sad to think that she will ever feel alone someday because she does not have a sibling due to my failures as a person.

Not to mention, my friend, who is just about as old as I am, has given birth to her second, third, and fourth child during the time that I have struggled to have a second.

[Anonymous]

The uncertainty at every.single.stage.