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View submission: Monthly Progress Thread - November '24
14 months
The biggest positive change I’ve noticed this month is a big reduction in anxiety. My usual worries range from more realistic to catastrophic: not having health insurance or money, to another Holocaust happening and losing all my loved ones. This chatter has quieted down as I feel safer and more secure, and that I can have security consistently and not as some kind of fluke, waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.
My husband and I have decided to start trying for a baby. Ideally I would love to be at the end stages of TRE before conceiving, but I don’t know when that will be, and I feel more ready and wanting pregnancy and motherhood. This is a huge step as the past years have felt like running up a down escalator trying to take care of myself and be functional, and now I feel capable of caring not just for myself but for another being. The progress is remarkable. If it takes a while to get pregnant I’m OK with this as I can do more TRE and pass down less to my future child. My mother had fertility issues (I’m an IVF baby)- I wonder if it was caused by trauma, and if it will be easier for me given the healing I’ve done? If anyone on this sub has experience with fertility/pregnancy and TRE I’d love to hear, please leave a comment!
I’ve had some more feel good and contented moments this month, but more scarcely than the past few months as some rough things have been going on in my personal life. One such stress is that I’m in between jobs at the moment and have no direction. I want to feel productive and bring in income, but I don’t want to return to the administrative office jobs I was working before the summer. I felt okay working these office jobs as I had no drive or motivation to pursue a more fulfilling career given my poor mental health, but now that my mental health is better I’m in a tricky spot of wanting more but not knowing what direction to take, but also not wanting to settle.
Comment by PiccoloPlane5915 at 07/11/2024 at 17:56 UTC
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Hey just wanted to say that I wish you the best. It's so great to see future mothers doing TRE for themselves but also for their babies, it's heartwarming really :)
Comment by Kogirius at 11/11/2024 at 19:58 UTC
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Congrats. Pregnancy and birth and early stages of motherhood can be quite a trip. I am pretty sure it did a lot of purification for my wife. I know it's a tad early, but I recommend considering natural, at-home birth, no oxytocin injections. This process is natural, joyful and easy, if you approach it correctly.