Trying to get pregnant?

September 26, 2009 2:35pm CST
I've been trying to get pregnant for about 6 months now, and so far have been unsuccesful, which in itself is heartbreaking. But what really gets my goat is that people then think they have a right to discuss all your personal things with you. I have friends texting me every month, if i say i am tired or ill they start fussing round me, we are going through a stressful time at the mo, and i keep getting told to calm down. And that doesn't even start with the comments about my age!!! Any body else had this experience? How did you cope? It is all so much pressure
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6 responses
28 Sep 09
Have you been to the docs, just for a check up? I once had trouble conceiving, so was given a smear, and there was a little problem, once sorted, i concieved quickly. I had my last baby at 37 yrs old, (not planned) so it could be something simple, that just needs a little attention. It is worth asking hun.
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@maximax8 (31044)
• United Kingdom
1 Oct 09
Yes, I bought my new house in 2005. I got pregnant in 2006 and had my toddler son in 2007.
1 Oct 09
oooh! congratulations!! wish me luck then!! we should be in the new house in a month or so!
28 Sep 09
Yeah but they don't check in the uk till after you been trying a year, and only on 6 months. But did have smear last year and that was fine. mum's a nurse and sshes blaming it on the house move!! she swears by the old wofes tale "new house new baby"!!
@med889 (5940)
28 Sep 09
My sister got pregnant after five years of her marriage and I still remember how she was very desperate and frustrated also but then she let time do its job and now she has three children, so even you will get a baby maybe it will take some times though. Age is no difference as I know people who are much more older that you and got babies, so you will get one too very soon.
@maximax8 (31044)
• United Kingdom
1 Oct 09
Trying to conceive can be a stressful time. Some ladies won't get pregnant if they are stressed. Relaxing really helps and so some ladies that go on vacation find they get pregnant on that. I have some friends that are trying to conceive and they do a pregnancy test every month. It can take some ladies one year to conceive. The longest time I know about is eight years. The lady was age twenty and she gave up trying at age twenty eight years old. She then found out she was pregnant and she had twin boys. Good luck to you in your dream to get pregnant.
@maximax8 (31044)
• United Kingdom
1 Oct 09
Just to add you are 31 so you have plenty of time. I had my toddler son when I was 34 years old and my baby daughter when I was 36 years old.
1 Oct 09
Congratulations! I hope i don't have twins, they run in hubbys family but i am tiny so i would look like a bowling ball, plus i have hypermobility so it would be agony!! My sis took over a year so i should just relax and enjoy my hubby!
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
30 Sep 09
Hi Littlemrssunshine, well if you can't out and out tell your friends to mind their own business you can at least refuse to text. I don't do them and everyone knows better than to try, all these mobiles do is make us permanently available so keep it out of signal range. My tip for less stress there. Luckily I never tolerated any of that kind of badgering but if they persist then just invent some ghastly gynaelogical problem which they'd be too embarrassed to talk about, except amongst themselves. 31 is nothing though, enjoy it while you can. Best to have them later then everyone just presumes you are still 31 which is good for the ego. I too am currently just a little over 31 at 36 I believe to be the latest guess in the village. And I had my 10 year old when I was 36 as well.
@trisha27 (3494)
• United States
1 Oct 09
You know what actually my husband and I are going through the same. We are having a hard time getting pregnant and we've been trying for the longest. I guess sometimes you just have to wait and let it happen when it happens. I've heard that stress can be the big factor sometimes in causing you not to get pregnant. But I can understand what you mean when you're trying and you're trying and you're hoping that one of these test comes out positive instead of negative. Don't worry about it too much. And don't let people get to you by what they say or do. Sometimes they think they know what you and your husband are going through and most of the time they actually don't know what's going on. I wish you all the best of luck and hopefully one day you will become pregnant and hopefully I will as well.
• United States
26 Sep 09
Your AGE?! Er, if I read your profile correctly, and you're 31, that's a fine time to get pregnant. You don't have to start worrying about being a little too old until you're 36, and in this day and age I think even that is not really a problem--they don't recommend an amniocenteses until you're 40. The ideal time to get pregnant is 18-35, so anyone making comments about your age is being just ridiculous. You're completely right about your friends being buddinskis (that's an American term--not sure if you guys use it? It means a person who butts in and can't mind his/her own business); I hate when people do that. They have no right to be lording over your moods all the time and making you more stressed by telling you to stop being so stressed. I'd stop answering those texts if I were you. I'm sure they have the best of intentions, but it really doesn't get any more private than this.
26 Sep 09
Thanks!! yeah i'm 31 and i know its not that old, but people keep quoting facts at me! Biddinskis! thats a cool word, we don't have it over here but i may start using it!!
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• United States
26 Sep 09
Heh, if I make an educated guess, it's probably left over from the Cold War. Back when the Soviets were our primary enemy, people in the WWII generation used to stick "ski" on the end of words, referencing "Russki," which is what they used to call the Russians. It's an implication that if something is Russian, it's a negative thing.
28 Sep 09
Yeah sounds about right! I love new words!
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