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Please please please send prayers and good thoughts!

I had a pretty traumatic birth last Wednesday and have not been able to pee on my own since!! I’ve had multiple catheters taken out while I was in the hospital for 5 days after birth to try to see if I could do it on my own just for one to be put back in to “try again later” I eventually decided for my mental health...

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Ovulation test showing 0

I’ve been using ovulation tests and the Premom app for a couple of days to track ovulation however I’m getting results of 0. Is this normal or is there something wrong?

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Is your LO rolling yet?

Like not just a one-off, but actually doing it regularly

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Grandparents and childcare expectations

Just wanted to see different views about this question. We live very far from family and have done all the parenting on our own. It has been exhausting and childcare so unaffordable that we know we can never have another child. We do dream about "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if we had some help, even if it was just o...

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5th failed IUI

This TTC journey has been hard for me this year . Sorry to moan have to let it off of my chest

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1st round of clomid tips

Any tips for starting my first round of Clomid in the new year? I have pcos so have probably never ovulated in my life

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One and done or one more??? Ahhhh

So I’m 40, almost 41. I’m so conflicted going back and forth and back and forth on having one or going for the second. I wish I was younger so I didn’t feel such a pressure to have to make that decision so quickly. I just had my first in May and I feel like I have to do it right away if I’m going to. But it’s overwh...

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Hopefully this is real 😍

20 months of TTC. 9dpo. Do we think this is my first BFP

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Thrush

So I suspect I’ve got thrush but I’ve also had a faint positive (shadow) on my pregnancy test. Can thrush cause a false positive?

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Still a chance?

I got the below results yesterday on 3 preg tests at 9DPO… the CB im convinced is an evap line however i have never had a second line on the premom strips before, i could see vvvfl within 10 mins but they got darker after a couple of hours but again im now wondering if there’s are evaps? i took a digital FR and earl...

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Am I out this month?

Tested 4 days before expected period and it was negative

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Positive?

Hi ladies. Does this look like a very faint positive line to you? Pls no messages of congratulations

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Help! Can’t get pregnant !

I have been trying for 7 months now and as far as I’m aware i am ovulation as had positive strip tests and regular period each month and always on time! I was pregnant very young and with my second pregnancy I got pregnant 2 months after implant being removed! I am getting so upset and feel deflated and wondered i...

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Great morning

How many days late did yall wait to take a pregnancy test ?

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2 week wait,

Had my first FET on the 12th, Anyone else currently in the 2ww. X

Incognito
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Is there the faintest line or am I crazy?

Had IUI done last Monday.

Incognito
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Help??

I’m so confused. I’ve posted a lot lately just purely because I’m absolutely baffled. 14 dpo - Yesterday morning at 8am my HCG test came back negative 14 dpo - Yesterday at 2.30pm I get a very faint line on my 2nd HCG test 14 dpo - Yesterday at 4pm I test again for a third time and my HCG test it negative and s...

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Evap?

Not sure if I’m seeing something or it’s an evaporation line. I’m 11dpo today had cramping and tiredness but that’s it. Other than feeling really sick on day 5 but that went

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Hating TTC sex

My husband and I are really struggling with the feeling of having to have sex rather than wanting to. It's such a turn off for us. We both just lay there trying to bring ourselves to do it and now he seems to be struggling with performance anxiety. I made the mistake of telling him I was ovulating and then he couldn...

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Ivf question

Hi so I conceived my beautiful baby girl who is 3 naturally after doing tests for ivf ( tried for 4 years prior). God is great! We have been trying for a sibling pretty much straight away and prayed for Irish twins but it didn't happen. I am looking into ivf now as I managed to save some money and what better than t...

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