I wish I’d had TikTok trying to conceive videos rather than drive my friends mad Trying to conceive (TTC) videos are a growing trend on TikTok with pregnancy tests unfolding in real time.
In her videos, she reveals that the reality of miscarriage, shares her fertility window is “coming up in a couple of days”, shows herself taking numerous negative pregnancy tests in her bathroom, and discusses how she has to deal with insensitive people who tell her not to “overdo it” next time – as if she were to blame for the miscarriage.
Trying to conceive (TTC) videos are a fast-growing trend: women are recording and sharing the most intimate and raw moments of their fertility journeys on TikTok, and attracting a huge following in the process.
For some, these videos could be difficult – for example, following along on someone’s fertility journey and seeing them succeed when you haven’t, or convincing yourself that they must have the “magic” fertility secret because they finally got pregnant.
Katie McCreesh, a 26-year-old gym owner from south Wales, found comfort in other people’s TikTok videos when she suffered a miscarriage in July 2024, just after she got married.
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