Hi I’m Kristie. I’m 25 years old and my husband is 30 years old. We have been TTC for exactly one year today (April 5th). I had a chemical pregnancy in September, with some odd circumstances. I took pregnancy tests up until the day my cycle started that month, all negative. About a week after my cycle had finished I was just feeling off, and thought maybe I had a UTI. So I went to the doctor, but it came back negative. I decided on a whim to take a pregnancy test, assuming that it would be negative because it was way to early in my cycle, but low and behold it came back positive. We were so excited, but also nervous because of the timing with my cycles. So we scheduled an appointment at a urgent care clinic that next day. They tested my HCG, and it came back that I was 2-4 weeks pregnant. Now just pure excitement! We scheduled an OBGYN appointment for the following week. They had me do a urine test first thing, and when they came back in the room I could instantly sense something was wrong. The nurse then matter of factly informed me that the test had come back negative and I was not pregnant. I sobbed. I was crushed. I could barely find words to ask how that could be possible. I was completely baffled that they did nothing but to recommend we wait 3 months until TTC again for emotional purposes. We took a week off, but then continued on with out journey of TTC. I’ve since been using OPKs, and getting positives each cycle.

Thank you to all that read this far! I’m so thankful to have this group. It truly is a heartbreaking process, but together we can get through this!