Conceiving

I’m 23 and already have a 2 year old , I have been trying for my second now for seven months , I know it can take up to a year but are there any tips or anything to help , starting to feel disappointed seeing the negative tests

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Have sex every other day.

Thankyou , yeah I have been trying to

Get him on zinc and potassium if you can as will help boost his swimmers. My partner has a low count and that was what he was advised so it can only help. X

okay Thankyou

With my first I was tracking, sex every other day etc for 3 months. Then due to work stress had a month where we decided not to worry about it and skip a month. We had sex once and happened to fall pregnant!
I am now pregnant with twins and it wasn't exactly planned.
Sometimes getting rid of the pressure eof tracking and schedules helps because you are more relaxed

hiya thanks for the advise , might have to I didn’t think I was stressing but sub consciously I think i am

similar happened to me was tracking etc for a few months then the 1 month I wasn’t thinking about it we had sex once and it happened, unfortunately miscarried so still trying x

We started taking his and her conception tablets and the 1st month we took them had sex once and fell pregnant, dunno if it was just coincidental. As I said in a previous comment unfortunately miscarried. We’ve been trying on and off for over a year. It is discouraging seeing negative tests. I don’t test or track anymore, I know round about when I ovulate if it happens it happens x

It took me 9 months to become pregnant, I tried LH strip tests to try and find peak days and turned out it was earlier and shorter than I realised. I also started adding milled flaxseed to my breakfast to try and help with hormone balancing.....could be a complete coincidence but I got pregnant within a month of starting adding that and I have another friend who also had a similar experience

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I'm so not meant to be a mother.

My kids won't listen to me get into stuff when they know they aren't supposed to. Telling me no all the time. Only listen to their dad. Laughs when I correct them. I spend most of my time yelling at them because they don't want to listen to me at all. My husband said that I shouldn't have kids. And I am believing him on it. I was never meant to be a mother now. I won't hurt my kids I just want to disappear and make everyone else's lives better without me.

One and done… or not?

32ftm. I’m starting to feel so much pressure to have another baby soon as I wean from breastfeeding so they can be close in age and be friends, but I don’t feel ready for pregnancy and newborn trenches again 😭 my husband and I are all we’ve got. Having just one baby without a village has been really tough. Am I being unrealistic wanting another one soon?

Baby #2??

I really want baby number 2 and am thinking of doing it via IUI as a solo mama!
Has anyone had any experiences with it 👀

Tests

So I had a blood test at the drs bc I keep getting positive tests when the blood test was negative what could this mean? Hubby says the tests are negative and said he can’t see anything. Negative image down below.

Am I pregnant?

I lightly spotted almost 5 days ago, which is not common for me before my period.
My period was supposed to come today. I should have tested in the morning but its 5:30pm.
Is there a second line??

Anyone have this happen before?

We were not trying to conceive, used protection and had sex on week 2 of my cycle (accidentally on my peak ovulation day). Week 3 we had Flu A. Week 4 my period did not come (it’s very regular). I tested and it was negative (2 different brands).
What should have been week 2 of my next cycle (now 6 weeks post last period), I had light red/ pink spotting for one day when I wiped. The following week, I tested again, still negative, but this time almost all the dye was in the negative space, which I’ve never seen happen before. The area where it shows one horizontal line for negative and a plus sign for positive, the horizontal line was super faded at the 3 minute mark, and the negative vertical line in the next window was VERY dark. Now I’m on week 8 of all this, period did not show up yesterday. Nothing in my life has changed (no additional stress, no other illness, no changes in diet or exercise, etc).

Has anyone gone through this and NOT been pregnant? I’m super nervous as we thought we were done having kids.

PS. I know I should go get a blood test, does anyone know if urgent care will do that? I’m past being convinced by a pee test.