Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

1. You really DO have to push out a baby through your Vajay-jay.

2. Its gonna HURT.

3. Its gonna hurt a LOT.

4. Where will the money come from to raise this little thing?

5. Babies are demanding little b astards.

6. Life changes. No longer can you just run out the house.

7. You can't just go to bed when you want, and sit and watch TV for hours.

8. You have to actually raise them into productive, kind people and members of society.

9. Temping and charting and smileys.....really? REALLY?

10. Will DH step up and make sure he is your partner in the ride? Yes, things fall to the mom. They do. But can DH handle the 2, 4, 6, 8am feedings too?

But of course:
You get to raise a family and share joy and love you never knew.

So, I'm offically on my last month of BC. Scared out my mind too. But I think thats good. Makes sure I know that there are challenges, but the rewards far outweigh it.......

Thanks for listening.

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

It is scary but many new experiences are. Good luck to you!

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

i had feelings like that....my fears were (and still are ) can i deal with the lack of sleep? will i have enough patience? will i be loving enough? will i be able to raise my children to grow up to be good people? will they be healthy? will DH and i be the same? will we still love eachother as much? will DH and i still have time for "us"?

then somewhere along the way the want became so intense that those fears became a little less and less...

a few months ago i was a nervous wreck to stop BCPs. there were a few times in the past where we thought we would be ready at a certain time but we were not and i stayed on the pill because we felt we had "more things to accomplish" before trying. our most recent plan was to stop bcp at the end of september and be careful for a month or two and then go for it in december (as long as i was having normal cycles)...

well i stopped the pill and we couldn't help ourselves and we already sort of tried after all that fear we just went for it and it was amazing...but we were ready...

how and when you get there, i'm not quite sure, it just sort of happens...i lingered on this board for awhile thinking people were crazy and now here i am crazed myself

Message edited 10/11/2010 12:31:14 PM.

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

I completely agree with everything you wrote...

i just go my eye brows waxed... and all i could think was... omg how is pushing a small bowling ball through my vag going to feel if getting waxed sux

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

I could have written this word for word.

See I didn't even do the whole TTC route...I was convinced by docs I would not be able to get pregnant without some type of medical intervention. So we weren't using protection, and thought "ehhh it probably won't happen."

WHOOPS! Guess the man upstairs had different plans.

I don't know how you ladies do it over here -- with the OPKs, and the EWCM and charting and tempting and timing BDs and all that jazz.

The idea of TTC terrifies me, because of all the reasons you listed above. For me, it's a good thing this came as a "surprise", since over-thinking all the reasons might have been too much to consider.

I'm utterly and totally terrified about this next step in the journey of our life together with DH, but I'm just as equally as excited too. It's a very interesting mix of emotions and sometimes you don't know how much you want something until you have it.

Good luck!

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

Thanks everyone.

Im glad to see I'm NOT crazy and I'm NOT the only one to think like this.

LOVES the waxing, vag thing. THAT was funny!!!!

Re: Why I'm scared out of my mind about TTC

it is definitely scary and i worry about all those things but definitely think the reward will be much greater than the sacrifices