Several factors to my question re: pregnancy tests

[LROM]

Hi all, I'm 44 yrs old, had my 1st babe Dec 08 (18 months now), am still breastfeeding her, and AF came back about 6 months ago. Even though AF started slight and light, it's been just as regular as before that pregnancy.

I also had 2 miscarriages before DD was born - one that just happened with no warning, the other we didn't discover until a doc's visit and ultrasound showed the fetus hadn't made it. After that 2nd discovery, I waited several weeks for it to miscarry and it never did, had to have a D&C (so basically fetus didn't come out on its own as long as 4 weeks after it demised cuz by time doc saw it, 2 weeks had passed).

Soooo... we're TTC again, and AF was due last Thurs. Again, I'm super regular so Sat is the latest it should have come. No AF. Tested with home Preg Test Sat and again this morning, negative.

Called my doc's, they said you have to wait 2 weeks to be sure one way or another what's going on, so they don't want to see me until I'm 14 days past my expected 1st AF date and want me to test at home then and then call.

But because I've been so regular, and always tested positive a couple days after missed AF, I'm concerned. Would love to just believe I'm preggers and it hasn't shown up yet, but I'm worried that if it's negative it means either a) not pregnant, wasn't pregnant, but something's wrong cuz why no AF? or b) I was pregnant or am pregnant but not enough preg hormones to register which doesn't bode well? (I'm not sure that's true, just asking).

SO that's a REALLY long way of asking: for someone who's super regular, is 2 days (really 4 days) passed missed AF date but negative test, does that sound problematic? Or do really regular people breastfeeding sometimes get weird responses....?

Any ideas what might be going on?

[MaerynPearl]

breastfeeding can cause you to suddenly no longer be regular, even if you were regular before. So if you really are not pregnant, I do not think anything is wrong.

[kalamos23]

You could have ovulated later or not at all - sometimes you just get a wacky cycle - it's not uncommon to have a random anovulatory cycle even without a prior history of one. That being said, you could have ovulated later and it might just be too early to test. Have you been stressed this cycle at all? Stress can delay ovulation.

[LROM]

For various relationship/housing reasons I feel like I've been stressed for the last 2 years! : But nothing particularly extra-stressful the last few weeks.

So re: anovulatory cycles, if I've had them before, would my period still come on time? Interesting that it can happen for the first time at any time, even without any history of it.

I've been really tired the last week or so, which would be different from pregnancy #1 when I wasn't any more tired in any trimester. But I'm trying hard not to jump to the conclusion that that means I'm preggers.

Ok, thanks so much! Any other ideas as to what might be going on?

[karmab]

agree with pps that it could be an anovulatory cycle and/or breastfeeding related, or you just may have o'd a few days late. all very likely. it happens. or you may have o'd and you have a little follicular cyst hanging on delaying af a little bit. that happens too. you should know for sure one way or the other soon. i know it's frustrating to wait. if you just cant stand it, you could order yourself a beta hcg - you can google it but there are websites where you can order your own labwork and go to a local lab to have it done and the report goes to you directly. i think a beta hcg runs about $50 or so.