17 Dumb Ass Frustrating Things About Trying To Have A Baby In Your Thirties

    The struggle is real.

    1. People will constantly talk about how hard it is to have babies over 30, even if your 30th birthday was yesterday.

    2. There is no end to the unsolicited advice.

    3. You have become intimately acquainted with your menstrual cycle.

    4. You've started timing sex to synch up with your ovulation schedule.

    5. Everyone from your dentist to your dad's golf buddies have asked about the status of your uterus.

    6. Everyone also has advice on what you are ~supposed to~ be eating from day one.

    7. Even if you've been pregnant before, there's something about that dirty thirty that gets the anxiety over the idea of infertility pumping.

    8. You suddenly can't go anywhere without seeing babies everywhere.

    9. TTC? POAS? BFP? You're totally fluent in internet fertility abbreviations.

    10. You spend a lot of money buying all sorts of supplements and ovulation kits.

    11. You probably feel like any difficulty is your own damn fault for waiting so long.

    12. You might find yourself crying a lot.

    13. All of your tracking ads online are now pregnancy-related.

    14. You might seriously lose if one more person tells you to "just relax."

    15. You've learned to stay away from Dr. Google. That dude isn't even board certified.

    16. You're gonna need a tribe for this.

    17. It might take a long time, and that's completely normal.