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How do you guys cope with the emotional stress of TTC? We’re trying for a second baby, almost accidentally. I found out I was expecting in September after our honeymoon, and while it wasn’t planned we were overjoyed, but I then miscarried. It made us realise we really want and are ready for a second baby. With our first child I had two miscarriages before conceiving our son, and the process of trying to get pregnant successfully completely consumed my daily life. Fast forward to now and I just don’t feel I’ve got the emotional energy to cope with all of that again. I don’t mean the child part, I mean the emotional and physical toll of <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glow.android">tracking ovulation</a> peaks, BBT, CM etc. I lost my mum to suicide at the beginning of the year and that has taken up so much of my mind alongside bringing up my 2 year old and we got married in May as well. We want to have another baby, I’ve been in therapy since my mum’s death to process all of that, but I’m worried about not being able to give the journey of conception all the energy that is required for us to fall pregnant. Sometimes I’m not in the right frame of mind to have sex but then I worry we’re missing our chance to fall pregnant. I feel like I’m at capacity emotionally, but also don’t want to put a pin in trying for a baby. How do you guys not lose momentum, or hope? I just wish I was one of those women who fell pregnant easily and it wasn’t such a struggle to not only get pregnant, but stay pregnant 😓