/r/trollingforababy

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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.

 

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.
There is no such thing as TMI.
If you can't find the humor here, perhaps this is not for you.
Acronym Term
2WW Two-Week Wait (post ovulation)
AF Aunt Flow (period)
AI Artificial Insemination
AMH Anti-Mullerian Hormone
ART Assisted Reproductive Technology
BBT Basal Body Temperature
BCP Birth Control Pills
BCW Birth Control Withdrawal
BFN Big Fat Negative
BFP Big Fat Positive
CD Cycle Day
CM Cervical Mucus
CP Chemical Pregnancy
D&C Dilation & Curettage
DNLTYD Do Not Lie To Your Doctor
DPO Days Post-Ovulation
DS Donor Sperm
ENDO Endometriosis
EOD Every Other Day
EWCM Egg White Cervical Mucus
EP Ectopic Pregnancy
ER Egg Retrieval
ET Embryo Transfer
FET Frozen Embryo Transfer
FF FertilityFriend.com
FMU First Morning Urine
FP Follicular Phase
FRER First Response Early Result pregnancy test
FW Fertile Window
GP General Practitioner or Gestating Partner
GS Gestational Surrogate
HBC Hormonal Birth Control
HCG Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
HPT Home Pregnancy Test
HSC HysteroSCopy
HSG HysteroSalpingoGram
IBIAM Implantation Bleeding is a Myth
ICI Intracervical Insemination
ICSI Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection
IF Infertility
IJP It’s Just Progesterone
IKMTMD I Know More Than My Doctor
IM Intra-Muscular Injection
IUI Intra-Uterine Insemination
IVF In Vitro Fertilization
LAP Laparoscopy
LH Luteinizing Hormone
LMP Last Menstrual Period
LO Little One (children)
LP Luteal Phase
LPD Luteal Phase Defect
MC, M/C, MISC Miscarriage
MMC Missed Miscarriage
MF or MFI Male Factor Infertility
MRKH Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome
NCCWPI Normal Coffee Consumption Won’t Prevent Implantation
NGP Non-Gestating Partner
NOWTSYC1BFPPL No One Wants to See Your Cycle 1 BFP Please Leave
NTNP Not Trying, Not Preventing
O, OV Ovulation
OB/GYN, OBGYN Obstetrician/Gynecologist
OHSS Ovarian HyperStimulation Sydrome
OPK Ovulation Predictor Kit or Test
OTMN One Temp Means Nothing
PCO and PCOS PolyCystic Ovar(ies) and PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome
PCP Primary Care Physician
PFIIMUB Pineapple for Implantation is Made Up Bullshit
PGD and PGS Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening
PIO Progesterone in Oil
POAS Pee On a Stick
RE Reproductive Endocrinologist
RIVF Reciprocal IVF
RPL Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
SA Semen Analysis
SART Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology
SD Sperm Donor
SDCMC Stress Doesn’t Cause Miscarriages
SHG SonoHysteroGram
SMEP Sperm Meets Egg Plan
STHM Spearmint Tea Hail Mary
SubQ Subcutaneous Injection
TCOYF Taking Charge of Your Fertility
TESA and TESE Testicular Sperm Aspiration and Testicular Sperm Extraction
TI Timed Intercourse
TTC Trying to Conceive
TS Traditional Surrogacy
TSH Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
TW/CW Trigger Warning or Content Warning
TWW Two-Week Wait (post ovulation)
WROG Well Read on Google
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/r/TTC_PCOS

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/r/shittyfertilityadvice

/r/trollingforababy

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Me to Meta after it just won’t stop showing me suggested posts about (strangers’) identical twins

Thanks for rubbing salt in my biggest wound, meta! It’s lovely to scroll through memes only to be slapped across the face with a reminder of one of my life’s greatest sorrows. The diabolical ad placement for things I tend to comfort shop for is also a nice touch.

2 Comments
2024/12/01
02:18 UTC

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CD1. We've all been there.

Naturally it's going to affect my beach holiday because my work wouldn't give me the week I asked for and gave me shark week off instead.

Guess I can feel hormonal and bloated whilst sipping cocktails 🍸 abd wearing my finest tampons.

0 Comments
2024/11/30
21:33 UTC

15

When you’re in the TWW & trying not to test 👀

3 Comments
2024/11/30
18:56 UTC

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Wanted to do that ‘lucky baby blanket’ under the tree, ended up crying in Burlington Coat Factory on Black Friday

Didn’t even get a damn blanket

15 Comments
2024/11/30
18:52 UTC

67

My IVF related gross skin issues have resolved right in time for my next IVF cycle.

Can’t wait to see what stages of repulsiveness I’ll reach this time. More hair loss? More weird bumpy skin? More gross bruising from progesterone in oil

Stay tuned to find out!

3 Comments
2024/11/30
18:12 UTC

129

Thought I'd be pregnant this holiday season but life said SIKE

3 chances this year, at least that's how see it. Second FET in July worked until it didn't...then got spontaneously pregnant right after in August, then September. All three were early losses. Had an early loss last September on the day of my fucking endo surgery which got cancelled and I miscarried. I legitimately can't catch a break. Now my SIL is pregnant with the same due date as my second FET. Haven't talked to her since she told us. Idc anymore lol.

0 Comments
2024/11/30
17:42 UTC

177

When you open up to someone about your fertility struggles and their response is "of course you're struggling, it's because you're so old"

27 Comments
2024/11/30
11:30 UTC

390

Thanks a lot, Reddit 😂🖕

I wonder why… 🫠

32 Comments
2024/11/29
18:00 UTC

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MRW, everyone brought their partner to the extremely SMALL bloodwork lab so there’s no chairs 🪑 & everyone is standing shoulder to shoulder.

Maybe this part doesn’t need to be a team sport.

3 Comments
2024/11/29
17:59 UTC

176

When you encouraged your friend group to start TTC (so you could be pregnant together) and now they all have babies and you don’t.

4 Comments
2024/11/29
17:37 UTC

21

Getting ready for my first PIO shot like

I have to lie down or stand up and have one leg up/resting so the muscle is relaxed. Can't help but to think I'm doing the Yamaha death pose before getting my shot. And tbh? Mood.

4 Comments
2024/11/29
15:49 UTC

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Staring at an early test and wanting to believe it was a squinter positive when it was actually just leftover trigger shot

0 Comments
2024/11/29
13:59 UTC

47

When you are told someone has a flock of children so you crack a joke but deep down you're like...

1 Comment
2024/11/29
11:34 UTC

70

My reaction to an old friend getting in touch to wish my happy birthday and then adding ‘btw we had another baby!’

I swear 3/4 of the women I know are pregnant or have a baby rn what the fuck man 😭

4 Comments
2024/11/29
08:13 UTC

202

MRW someone says they have an announcement to make at the family gathering

Announcing during the holidays is so played and predictable 🙄🙄

6 Comments
2024/11/29
05:47 UTC

233

Supporting my 'blessed and grateful' friend after they got pregnant on their first try

6 Comments
2024/11/28
23:58 UTC

107

Being added to a Thanksgiving pregnancy announcement text thread after our failed FET

2 Comments
2024/11/28
17:27 UTC

45

Becoming stressed by what was supposed to keep you from stressing this cycle, and then stressing because stressing is bad for TTC

0 Comments
2024/11/28
12:08 UTC

160

"What are your plans for Christmas?"

11 Comments
2024/11/28
10:39 UTC

65

Whenever fellow infertiles talk about any sex, especially extras outside of TTC

Never gotten naturally pregnant, though pregnant 3 times via IVF (all miscarriages). I am on continuous BC because my endo and adeno are incredibly severe, so it's not happening naturally anyway. With the meds, pain, sadness.... we just don't anymore. We love each other and recognize the situation. I'm happy for those who can still get it on, it's just hard to not feel abnormal.

5 Comments
2024/11/28
02:57 UTC

65

My overbearing MIL continuously asking me what I want for Christmas knowing she can’t give me what I want!!

Optional answers on my end:

  1. To be left alone
  2. For my left fallopian tube to magically regrow and your son’s sperm to work
  3. Money for IVF
2 Comments
2024/11/28
00:47 UTC

43

Me since my appetite has grown out of control after starting Synthroid to get my otherwise normal thyroid to "ideal" ttc levels

6 Comments
2024/11/27
23:14 UTC

68

When they said my hysteroscopy would make me more fertile and make my period hurt less but it’s 2 months later and I have some of the worst period cramps of my life

The polyps are gone, but at what cost 🫠

9 Comments
2024/11/27
17:27 UTC

59

Me, fresh off my 3 month Methotrexate jail sentence, ready to get my heart broken again with another IUI:

If I could not have another ectopic, that’d be greeeat.

We ride at dawn 🤠

3 Comments
2024/11/27
16:47 UTC

60

Y tho

😂😂😂

2 Comments
2024/11/27
16:08 UTC

270

My husband and I heading to the bedroom during ovulation after our 2nd ivf loss even though we’ve never conceived unassisted in our 4.5 years TTC.

delulu and delulu-er

18 Comments
2024/11/27
14:57 UTC

188

The fertility arc of joining all the line eyes groups to leaving them all and joining this one 🥶

I feel like this could be a universal experience in this group. Got sick of seeing positive tests, have come to the dark side

39 Comments
2024/11/27
14:50 UTC

118

Venting to coworker about infertility and she asks “have you tried the cervical mucus check?”

13 Comments
2024/11/27
13:39 UTC

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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:

  1. Everything in our TrollFAB Rules still applies, even if it's not explicitly called out again here.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
36 Comments
2024/11/27
13:00 UTC

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When I see the telling signs of a bump on my fertility acupuncturist I was prescribed to see by the clinic

0 Comments
2024/11/27
03:38 UTC

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