So this September we decided in October we'd start trying to conceive our second little one. I tracked my cycle before hand for about six months since we used the pull out method. I'd been logging ovulation symptoms such as pinching feelings and things around ovulation time so I knew I felt ovulation pain and had ewcm two days before the app suggested that I'd ovulate. Knowing that when we started trying I kept that in mind and we baby danced according to those signs...

I was lucky enough to get pregnant our first month trying in October. We've announced on Christmas and people ask "so how long were you trying?" And I answer honestly that we got lucky and conceived on our first month trying and I'm seriously shocked that now three people have told me that I don't fully appreciate being pregnant because I didn't have to "work" for it or wait for it... How do you even respond to that? I don't see how the number of months we were ttc dictates how much I appreciate that I'm pregnant. I'm also getting "Must be nice, it took me X amount of months" and then they stop replying. I do my best not to sound like I'm gloating. I'm well aware we got very lucky, and my intentions are never to rub it in anyone's faces, I'm just trying to answer honestly. But people seem to have negative reactions, I'm not quite sure what to do. Most of these interactions are through social media and the "must be nice" ones were in person. Do I just stop telling people how long we tried to conceive or...? The negativity is really getting to me.