What do you do?

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What are some of your coping methods? How do you "turn it off" or "stop trying"???

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I’ve been trying to figure this out as well. No easy answer and I’ve found that going to support groups and sharing similar stories of the infertility journey helps me cope. Best of luck to you

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Honestly after 3 yrs ttc and heartbreak after heartbreak I kinda just “gave up”. I think my brain just blocked this part of my life to where I no longer have a reaction to anything about babies/birth. I haven’t tracked or anything for last 2 years and I think what helped is I blocked anyone and everyone with kids/pregnant/gave birth. I just muted their stories posts etc. so I won’t randomly see a post I don’t want to react to. Even people who just got married or whatever I automatically blocked their posts so I won’t hear that they r now expecting blah blah. I work and will soon be going back to school so that’s been helping me keep it off my mind and I journal LIKE A LOT. I write down everything I feel and leave it there. I’ve been really good about it until I get my periods and I remember it sometimes. Like this cycle has been a bit emotional with hubby away. So I guess short answer is there’s really no way to completely ever shut it off but keeping yourself busy and limiting the amount posts and people you follow with kids helps

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It was really hard to go from years of timing and monitoring to just stopping. I did a year of fertility treatments with no success in addition to the 5 years of TTC. When we decided to just stop it was so hard. I did a month of a lot of drinking, crying, coping- not recommending the drinking and I’m not one to do it either so it was WAY out of character for me. The next month I decided to try and move on. I started exercising and eating better to take care of myself. That month with no OPK, no tracking, no timing- I found out I was pregnant. This doesn’t happen to all but I feel like the lack of stress and taking care of myself helped greatly.

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