How do you keep going?

Question

How do you fight off the crushing feeling of seeing another negative? How do you smile and act like nothing is bothering you?

Answer

You just can’t give up. I’ve been with my partner 6 years. We tried for 4 years actively. So soul crushing when I would get another negative and seeing others having their positives and pregnancy announcements. Each one would hurt more. I was overweight and have PCOS. Doctor told me TTC naturally was virtually out the window. But i went ahead and had gastric sleeve and lost so much weight... it took me 6 months to get back a cycle. But still not pregnant, I cried when I have seen women who aren’t fit to be mothers become mothers without trying. It’s soooo fucking hard and people telling me “it’ll happen when you least expect it” didn’t help at all. Or “in God’s timing”. You know what you stop thinking about it, you try not to let it phase you and you put it out there and it gets better eventually. 
It was when I least stressed about it and least expected it and have forgotten how numb it made me feel did i get that BFP. NEVER GIVE UP. Just don’t let it eat you up either. As hard as it is, it’ll happen and it’ll get better hun. All the prayers and baby dust to you 🙏🎊

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Take a break if you need to.. that’s what I did, I told my husband I needed a few months of not dealing with the ttc craziness and I actually ended up pregnant the second month.. I think partially because I was finally relaxed. 
I didn’t use opks or any products like preseed 
I didn’t use this app except to log when we had sex
I estimated when my period would be due and when it didn’t show, I took a test
It was sooo nice to be able to just enjoy myself and not be wrapped up in ttc. 
I love this app, it’s helped me a lot, but it also made me feel inferior and I was so wrapped up in how early I could get a positive and all that. 
Good luck and stay positive :)

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I didn’t test a lot. I went crazy one cycle and tested a lot and early and that was awful. Good luck🥰

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It’s been a very long journey for me , so now , I’m just numb to it.  Seeing a BFN is as normal a brushing my teeth these days. But back when I first started... it was absolutely crushing. I would cry when I needed to (usually the shower or the car) have my fall apart moments and eventually I’d be cried out. I unfortunately turned to food to help heal me. Which wasn’t healthy at all but it was a go to back then. 
The best thing I ever did was join online support groups. Being able to talk to others who were going through what i was helped tremendously.  Best advice I can give you is to not hold it in.  Let it out. However you need to.  There was one point I would take my BFN test and smash it with a hammer on my basement floor.  That felt friggin amazing

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