GTKY: GP/TTC Story (PR)

Apollo11235 · November 2014

DH has always said he wanted kids pretty much ASAP, so he pretty much started bugging me about it right after the wedding. I didn't feel like much of a grown-up yet, much less like a grown-up with enough money to raise a kid, so we set some financial goals to reach before TTC. Around April 2013, I decided to go off BCP and start charting to avoid, mostly because I had lurked here and was having some unwelcome side effects from the pill. Around that same time, we realized we would probably be able to reach our goals by late spring 2014, so I decided to intro on GP for the long wait. I learned so much in the year and a half that we were TTA while I was around GP, so thanks to all you ladies for that!

Somewhere in the middle of the year we were planning to continue TTA, we decided it would be better for us to pay down DH's student loans more aggressively, so we set ourselves back what we thought would be about a year. To my surprise, in late July this year, it occurred to me that we had already met all our goals, only a few months later that originally planned. So DH and I talked about whether TTC made sense for us at the time (debatable since we're hoping/planning to graduate and move next August, but we figured we'd make it work), and we decided to go for it.

After 2 cycles of charting and TTC, I got a super-faint BFP on Friday 9/26. I'm now 10 weeks pregnant and expecting our little one in mid-June. I don't want to do too much PR AW-ing on here, but I posted an update from our first appointment in GPM on Saturday if you're interested in reading it.