For some getting pregnant is straightforward, it happens naturally with no fertility appointments or specialists needed to help create a family.
However not everyone is this lucky, some people experience various problems along the way and the three minute wait after peeing on a pregnancy test can feel agonising.
These intense emotions were recently captured in a very poignant way by a young woman named Megan Lynne Ferrero.
In a viral post on Facebook, Megan shared a simple snap of a negative pregnancy test and poured her heart out about the pain of 'almost' pregnancies.
The post has since been shared over 63,000 times and has garnered more than 49,000 likes.
She starts by informing readers that everyone always talks about positive test results but we rarely hear about the struggles of the negatives.
"We rarely talk about waiting for the screen to fill up and noticing it skipped right over that first line that should've been there and goes right to that solo second 'not pregnant' line," says the mum-of-one.
Megan goes on to reveal that even when this happens to her, she can't stop herself from checking the test after she's gotten an unwanted result, just in case it changes - and sometimes she'll even take it out of the bin days later to check.
And her desperate attempts to turn a negative test into a positive one don't end there.
She goes on to explain how she takes a picture "of the test with flash off. Then with it on. Then upside down in a handstand. Then editing the picture to make it lighter or darker or crisper or blurrier" trying to see if any angle or edit will make a second line appear.
Unsurprisingly her efforts prove futile and the result stays the same.
Following this, she discusses her disappointment over the time she has wasted thinking about when the baby would be born and all the "cute" ways she could have announced her pregnancy.
"It starts with picturing that you'll be able to announce with something like 'Red, White and Due' on the 4th of July. Then it turns into possibly making a surprise trip home to tell the family before summer is over.
"Then August and September pass and you decide it's okay because announcing at Halloween is just as exciting. And then Halloween passes and you still haven't gotten a positive."
She adds: "They tell you stressing over it just makes it even harder for it to happen, so you try to pretend you're not stressing because apparently that makes your whole reproductive system turn on you.
"But you can't help but panic a little when the months keep going by and you don't have a brother or sister in there for your current child and the idea of having them close in age becomes more and more of an unrealistic fantasy."
Megan finishes her post with an encouraging message to other women experiencing the same thing.
"Regardless of how long you've been struggling this struggle or if you struggled with it in the past - I see you, I feel you, I am you."
Fellow parents were incredibly inspired by her words and decided to share their own struggles in the comments below.
One person wrote: "Three years and four miscarriages. It is hard, but there is hope sometimes."
Another replied: "It took me four years and five miscarriages but my rainbow baby arrived and will be three on Tuesday."
A third added: "I struggled with this for five years. Everything you said. It was a horrible experience."
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