I’m so frustrated! My husband and I have been together for almost 14 years. Serious about having a kid for the past two years, although last year, we were blindsided by bad news that I’m a carrier for a crappy X-linked genetic mutation. We’ve never had any real or false alarms on the pregnancy front.

After 5 days waiting for a missed period, I started to get a little hopeful this past week. I waited and eventually took three positive pregnancy tests (one digital) spread out over 2 days got me PUMPED. Excited but in that cautious hopeful way (given the hanging question mark regarding future genetic testing). Doctor appointments scheduled. On it!

Last night, started feeling really cramping, and it kept increasing in severity. By this morning morning, there’s no doubt that we are NOT having a baby anymore.

This sucks. I feel like on one hand, it’s good to know that I apparently am capable of getting pregnant. On the other hand... this feels awful and I never want to experience this again.

How do other ladies cope?