in TTC: UK
Any other SAHM struggling on this ttc journey?
I’ve recently just finished my maternity leave and decided to leave my manic job to stay home with my 10 month bundle of chaos/joy. My partner and I decided to try for a second at the start of this year, and since being away from work the pressure I feel I’m putting on myself to conceive is huge. It’s almost feeling like a job itself that I’m failing at 😫. I know it’ll have the opposite effect for my fertility, but I just can’t help it being all consuming.
It’s like my little man lit a fire in me to be a mother and I can’t wait to add another to our clan. But it just isn’t happening yet 😫
Anyone else this self pressuring and frustrated?
I am exactly the same. My little girl is 8 months old and our plan has always been for me to be a SAHM. We said from the moment of getting together that we would like lots of children all very close in age, and since having our little girl we haven’t been “careful. We started taking it all a bit more serious with tracking ovulation etc when she was about 3 months old and it sadly hasn’t happened for us yet and I’m just about to start cycle 9. Like you, it’s consuming me and I find myself feeling extremely upset and worried something may be wrong and that my little girl will never have a sibling like we had always hoped for her. I know we haven’t been trying for long in comparison to some but it’s still hard. My partner says it’ll happen when the time is right and like you’ve said, I know putting the pressure on myself and being obsessed with it is going to have the opposite effect but it’s hard. X