What do you do to get through the TWW?

[mrsk0920]

As soon as I know I'm past baby makin' time and just waiting time I am such an impatient mess. I obsessively look at baby stuff on Pinterest and get phantom symptoms (my boobs hurting this time HAS to be different than every other time when I'm PMSing right?!) I've found some ways to try to keep myself busy (yoga has down wonders for me--at least one whole hour where I don't think about it). What are you all doing to try to get through the TWW with your sanity intact? ?

[mrsjene]

Not think about it. I'll just drive myself nuts.

[NariaDreaming]

At this point my case is a bit different since I only get 2-3 shots at a 2WW a year.


But I've taken to making a to-do list for the 2WW. Each day I list one project I NEED to get done around the house, and one fun project I'd LOVE to do. It gives me something other than the state of my uterus to focus on.

[mrss44]

Dance.

[mainewifey]

I also make to do lists of house projects and try to include one fun project. In general I just try to keep busy.

I think I'm going to start food logging again so that will give me something to think about other than my BBT chart. I can work on meeting nutritional goals instead of analyzing my tempuratures and symptoms.

[kawaiikitsune]

At this point, the TWW is nothing to me anymore. Before I got to this point, I watched a lot of Netflix, organized and cleaned a lot and baked all the things.

[fallbaby11]

I try to ignore it. I usually stay pretty busy and try to be hopeful without getting on the crazy train. I don't keep HPTs in the house any more either. I also don't look for symptoms as then I usually become dissapointed.

[JulietRose]

I used to super overanalyze every symptom in the beginning, then after realizing how much stress I was causing myself, I decided to not test unless AF didn't come and until then, just knit or google a ton of crap. That took so much stress away it was crazy. Otherwise....

[singingsea]

I try not to think about it and just wait for AF or that "hit by a bus" feeling to start.

[peanutmuse]

If I start to get obsessed, I make mental notes of all of the reasons why being pregnant this month or that month (or for this vacation or activity or whatnot) would suck donkey balls.

For example, if I get pregnant this cycle, I will be in my early third tri while on a beach vacation with my extended family. With a 19 month old toddler. That sounds terrible. (I'll take it, of course. Who am I kidding? But this helps me feel a bit better.)

[icequeen]

No matter what I do, I'm still thinking about it. It is vey hard not to obsess, for me. I usually keep up with the threads, get out of the house and take a trip with DD, read a non-TTC related book, or watch some funny TV with DH.

[wowcheezits]

I work on my immediate goals and then make new ones if I accomplish any. Right now my immediate goal is to train like a beast in the gym like the way I did two years ago. I miss being able to move the way I once did.

[daisy818]

Feb 6, 2015 12:18:06 GMT -5 peanutmuse said:

If I start to get obsessed, I make mental notes of all of the reasons why being pregnant this month or that month (or for this vacation or activity or whatnot) would suck donkey balls.

For example, if I get pregnant this cycle, I will be in my early third tri while on a beach vacation with my extended family. With a 19 month old toddler. That sounds terrible. (I'll take it, of course. Who am I kidding? But this helps me feel a bit better.)

My mom was in that exact same situation with me and my brother (I was 18 months old and she was 6.5 months pregnant) when the family beach vacay hit.  She said a big umbrella and frequent returns to AC were key.  But while she thought she looked awful, I think she looked adorable in photos, rocking that lovely early 80s perm and ruffled one-piece bathing suit   (This, btw, is exactly why I insisted our beach vacay be in early June - I feel awkward enough in a bathing suit as is!)  I do like your method to avoid obsession though.

As for me, I participate in the TWW thread and try to just put in my temp and not look at FF again each day.  I also am kind of terrible at symptom spotting (eg, last month I noted headaches, but I get those about 20 days out of the month) so my incompetence helps quite a bit - ignorance is bliss!

[mainewifey]

Feb 6, 2015 12:25:05 GMT -5 wowcheezits said:

I work on my immediate goals and then make new ones if I accomplish any. Right now my immediate goal is to train like a beast in the gym like the way I did two years ago. I miss being able to move the way I once did.

Ugh, me too. I already told work that I'm leaving early today to go to a class at the gym. For a while I was giving myself the excuse, that I wouldn't want to spend all of this time and money training just to get KU and lose all of my hardwork. So I was sort of half assing, and not really fully committing. 

This week I told H that I was going to get back into it, and stay with it, KU or not.  I'm tired of feeling slow, weak and out of shape.

[kariann12]

The excitement of the TWW has long worn off. It now makes me sad thinking about how many nights I spent browsing Pinterest and looking at baby shit.

/Debbie downer

[risscaboobs]

Feb 6, 2015 12:47:25 GMT -5 kariann12 said:

The excitement of the TWW has long worn off. It now makes me sad thinking about how many nights I spent browsing Pinterest and looking at baby shit.

/Debbie downer

hug!

[Rama]

I guess I'm weird? The TWW is nothing for me (nor was it before the cycles of insanity). It's just another state of being.

[Rama]

Feb 6, 2015 12:47:25 GMT -5 kariann12 said:

The excitement of the TWW has long worn off. It now makes me sad thinking about how many nights I spent browsing Pinterest and looking at baby shit.

/Debbie downer

*big, big hugs*

[risscaboobs]

Feb 6, 2015 12:51:08 GMT -5 Rama said:

I guess I'm weird? The TWW is nothing for me (nor was it before the cycles of insanity). It's just another state of being.

I don't have too much trouble either, really. Maybe just the first one. WTO bothers me more than TWW.

[talon]

Have you tried drinking?

[squeakyduck]

I'm usually fine for the first week. The second week I knit and watch Netflix.

[frankenboom]

Feb 6, 2015 12:55:15 GMT -5 risscaboobs said:

Feb 6, 2015 12:51:08 GMT -5 Rama said:

I guess I'm weird? The TWW is nothing for me (nor was it before the cycles of insanity). It's just another state of being.

I don't have too much trouble either, really. Maybe just the first one. WTO bothers me more than TWW.

This. The TWW is much preferable to WTO for me, because I know at that point I've done all I can and nothing I do will make a difference. Much more relaxing (plus the TWW is much shorter for me than WTO since I ovulate late).

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Feb 6, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -5 frankenboom said:

Feb 6, 2015 12:55:15 GMT -5 risscaboobs said:

I don't have too much trouble either, really. Maybe just the first one. WTO bothers me more than TWW.

This. The TWW is much preferable to WTO for me, because I know at that point I've done all I can and nothing I do will make a difference. Much more relaxing (plus the TWW is much shorter for me than WTO since I ovulate late).

I agree. WTO is about 10 days longer than TWW for me. 

[mugster]

Feb 6, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -5 frankenboom said:

Feb 6, 2015 12:55:15 GMT -5 risscaboobs said:

I don't have too much trouble either, really. Maybe just the first one. WTO bothers me more than TWW.

This. The TWW is much preferable to WTO for me, because I know at that point I've done all I can and nothing I do will make a difference. Much more relaxing (plus the TWW is much shorter for me than WTO since I ovulate late).

Yes, mine is short, which might make it easier... Until 7 dpo, I tell myself my body doesn't even know if I'm going to be knocked up. Then I tell myself that implantation could happen as late as 10 dpo. By the time I start wondering if I'm pregnant, I'm within a day or two of getting my period. That day or two can be a little nerve wracking, but as more months have gone by, I've felt fewer glimmers of hope and far less surprise when the red devil turns up.

[kellybenelly83]

Feb 6, 2015 14:04:44 GMT -5 mugster said:

Feb 6, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -5 frankenboom said:

This. The TWW is much preferable to WTO for me, because I know at that point I've done all I can and nothing I do will make a difference. Much more relaxing (plus the TWW is much shorter for me than WTO since I ovulate late).

Yes, mine is short, which might make it easier... Until 7 dpo, I tell myself my body doesn't even know if I'm going to be knocked up. Then I tell myself that implantation could happen as late as 10 dpo. By the time I start wondering if I'm pregnant, I'm within a day or two of getting my period. That day or two can be a little nerve wracking, but as more months have gone by, I've felt fewer glimmers of hope and far less surprise when the red devil turns up.

+1 on this, this is how I see it. 

[admac3]

Feb 6, 2015 11:20:36 GMT -5 NariaDreaming said:

At this point my case is a bit different since I only get 2-3 shots at a 2WW a year.


But I've taken to making a to-do list for the 2WW. Each day I list one project I NEED to get done around the house, and one fun project I'd LOVE to do. It gives me something other than the state of my uterus to focus on.

Having a project to do each day is a really good idea. I need something to take my mind off of it.

[DanaScullyX]

Feb 6, 2015 11:41:08 GMT -5 @littleliverpill said:

Make voodoo dolls from the pubic hair of my enemies.

I knew I couldn't be the only one. Twinsies!

[paloslee]

drink all the wine and beer you want because you never know when all that fun stuff will come to an end (temporary)!

[getzystark]

Feb 6, 2015 15:08:42 GMT -5 @wineandcupcakes said:

Feb 6, 2015 11:42:31 GMT -5 kawaiikitsune said:

At this point, the TWW is nothing to me anymore. Before I got to this point, I watched a lot of Netflix, organized and cleaned a lot and baked all the things.

I'm in this boat. After month 6 all novelty was gone. I don't ever POAS, I wait out my period. And I don't fret over the TWW. I'm just over it and in a place where I have incorporated TTC into my life as an endeavor I am pursuing versus something that consumes me.

So much of this. I'm still learning on not letting it consume me. I don't want to look back on the first year of marriage only remember the heartbreak of TTC.

[anonymouseliza]

I hop on board the crazy train and analyze everything to death. At least, that is what I tried unsuccessfully to do last cycle. I'm hoping this one is easier, with the novelty gone. Certainly the last time we ttc, it got that way, though I will always get antsy at a certain point, I think.

Right now, there are so many potentially obsessive and overwhelming things happening in my life, so I'm tying to maintain a balance of crazy. It's working better than I'd expected. I think trying to focus on other things (job hunt, surviving horrid director at work, eating healthy/exercise/losing weight, my writing and my knitting) helps some to at least switch up the crazy inside my head.