/r/trollingforababy
This is a group for laughing at and mocking the awkward, ridiculous, and sometimes painful things we endure while trying for a baby. Trollingforababy is for people who are trying to conceive, and are not currently pregnant.
Please look at our complete list of rules before participating.
| This is a group for laughing at and mocking the awkward, ridiculous, and sometimes painful things we endure while trying for a baby. Salt and bitterness allowed, infertility sucks and there are few havens that are available for venting the frustrations that go along with it. Trollingforababy is for people who are trying to conceive, and are not currently pregnant. |
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The Rules:
Posts should be related to trying for a baby, and must contain an image or gif, no text-only submissions.
Trollingforababy is for people who are trying to conceive, and are not currently pregnant.
No discussion of BFPs (positive pregnancy tests), pregnancies, or living children.
No gifs or images containing pregnant women, human babies, toddlers, or small children.
If you don’t want to see it, we don’t want to see it. Don't repost things that bothered or upset you.
No gifs or images that are graphic, bloody, or gruesome, especially in the context of miscarriage. These posts can be extremely triggering for our members, especially those who have experienced loss.
No abortion debate. We are a staunchly pro-reproductive choice community. Talking about first-hand experiences with termination is fine - please do so without using the word abortion as it tends to attract harassment.
No solicitation or self-promotion.
We love gifs and trolling but there is a 2 post per 24 hour post limit (per user).
No throwaway accounts for posts or comments.
Please use the [NSFW] tag when appropriate.
| Please report inappropriate content! We want this to be a safe space where we can laugh about trying for that elusive baby. While we are trollingforababy, we do not tolerate general trolls who mock sensitive reproductive subjects. We are pro ART, and are accepting of all reproductive journeys. |
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| There is no such thing as TMI. |
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| If you can't find the humor here, perhaps this is not for you. |
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Salty Sunday: What made you salty this week?
Community rules apply to all comments
13:03 UTC
When you start to do the math 🧮 on how long you’ve been ttc….
04:09 UTC
When you are waiting for your laparoscopy to try and explain your infertility but you get left in the operation waiting room for 8 hours and get to watch 2 excited women get wheeled in for c-sections before you get to have your surgery.
03:05 UTC
In the ER for severe ear infection, and im sobbing from the pain the dr asks “before I can prescribe you anything is there any chance you could be pregnant” and suddenly Im sobbing and mad at my body for a whole other reason. No doc there is zero chance
02:33 UTC
When you get an unsolicited ultrasound pic
Coming up on 3 years of TTC.
21:57 UTC
When your partner advises you to maybe give it a few more days before you test... But no, you know this it and... Negative test.
I'm over two and a half years into this crap fest and I don't usually get excited but this cycle.... Well I just absolutely convinced myself. I use Fertility Friend to track and it has never not been accurate about my cycle. In fact it's been scarily good. This cycle, I got my peak, BBT raise confirmed, no usual symptoms of period, got to expected period date, gave it 24hrs just in case... And negative.
I let myself believe that finally we'd done it. I imagined all the things that was going to happen. I was going to be able to tell the specialist that my eggs weren't bottom of the apple barrel (his lovely description of eggs at my age btw), we weren't going to get into debt over this, we'd beaten the odds. I feel like a 🤡
15:08 UTC
Called it 😭
05:47 UTC
When you’re alternating estrogen and progesterone suppositories throughout the day.
🎶🎤 You wanna know what I got going on down there.
23:44 UTC
My delulu ass thinking THIS will be the year I finally get to announce on Christmas
You would think that after three years, I would be logical and know it’s probably unlikely… but no, instead, I sit and wonder, ‘What if? 😔😭
20:26 UTC
When my letrozole is increased to the maximum dose because 2 follicles isn't enough, but then my IUI is cancelled because 4 is too many
20:02 UTC
My face when the fertility doctor asks "are you excited 😀?" for my first IUI
18:10 UTC
Coming to work after my long awaited fertility clinic appointment to be met with pictures of my coworker's new granddaughter.
13:31 UTC
Me after having coffee with a colleague on CD1 just for her to announce she's pregnant with her 2nd right after she started trying
I'm so happy for her, she has her first doctor appointment in a few days and I told her to update me because I really care for her but damn...It's been 2 years of nothing for me. I feel like I have been punched in the gut. So many mixed emotions. Might have to go into the office bathroom to cry.
12:56 UTC
Telling Fertility Friend that my boobs hurt at 9dpo
12:20 UTC
When the co worker on mat leave stops into work unexpectedly with her newborn baby
16:07 UTC
15:39 UTC
Making a wish on my birthday
01:40 UTC
My tummy with these vivelle patches and estrogen tablets. The bloat is real… also the sweat and also the hot flashes and also the cramping and also the exhaustion. Yay.
22:10 UTC
Finally setting up Subscribe & Save for ovulation tests on Amazon got me like:
Hello
21:49 UTC
Reproductive rights took a hit before we start fertility treatment.
Anyone else feel like they’re scared to bring a child into this world, let alone a girl?
18:10 UTC
Wine and Whine Wednesdays
Back by popular demand, Weekly TrollFAB venting threads!
Have something you want to get off your chest? Need a sounding board to air your TTC complaints to? Vitamin company changed your favorite prenatal bottle's packaging? Complain away!
Saw something particularly obnoxious on FB, Etsy, Etc? Take care not to brigade or harass anyone, but this is absolutely the place for some good humored mockery.
Chat Thread Rules:
- Everything in our TrollFAB Rules still applies, even if it's not explicitly called out again here.
- No BFP talk, or anything resembling BFP talk. Tread carefully when talking about living children, results of treatment, or anything that invites your fellow TrollFABer's envious wrath.
- Feel free to be snarky and let your frustration out, but be respectful at the same time. This is a welcoming space for TTC-ers of all races, religions, genders, sexualities, medical conditions, ages, length of trying, etc. Mods reserve the right to shamelessly delete anything we deem too far over the troll line.
- Be cognizant of the fact that many people on this sub have been trying for longer/shorter than you, and may be on some of the same other TTC subs as you. It's okay to ask questions or correct someone for unintentionally hurtful phrases, but anything overtly inconsiderate/self-centered will be removed.
13:00 UTC
Me getting my period after gaslighting myself that this would be the time that I would get pregnant the cycle before I start medicated cycles
12:27 UTC
Let fertile week commence
04:19 UTC
Getting all negatives, starting my period and THEN googling “false negative hpt and on period but pregnant- experiences”
I challenge you to beat my delulu levels 🫠
20:49 UTC
Me telling myself I’m going to wait until my missed period to test this cycle
20:06 UTC
Woke up to pics from the in-laws of a cousin who I don't even know who just gave birth. Then was subjected to miscarriage gore (anti ab0rtion protestor) at the doorway to vote.
People suck. Also, I have no idea how it's even legal to stand at the door as a protestor
19:23 UTC
Me discovering my cycle was successful, announcing it to my siblings/parents, and losing it 4 days later
18:15 UTC
Went from being happily surprised to find out that we were having twins to learning that neither one has a heartbeat in the span of 3 weeks
This was our first pregnancy after 2.5 years of trying and it felt like there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel but now we get to navigate this instead
16:00 UTC
Trying to come up with an answer for “why can’t you come?” or “where will you be?” to the people I’m not telling about IVF
Dodging certain conversations like Neo dodges bullets
12:24 UTC