ARTICLE: TTC Trying to (stay) calm

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By Nikita Fredericks

Infertility is generally defined as not falling pregnant, despite having carefully timed, unprotected sex for a year. My husband and I  have been trying to conceive (TTC) for seven months now, after our second miscarriage in August 2017.

It’s been seven months of hoping, tracking, timing, taking my temperature, consultations with my doctors, medication that makes me feel sick and slightly loopy, weight gain despite healthier eating habits, and the possibility that I may have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). This is not good news.

Apart from the fact that TTC tends to take over so much of my thoughts, emotional energy and physical health, it can take its toll on something else, a marriage.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are two of us who are TTC, two of us who are struggling emotionally, two of us who are yearning to see those two little blue…

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