Planning on testing November 01-07 - Page 3

[RollerCoasterMama]

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[musicoholic]

Originally Posted by Sourire

My symptoms today:

Nausea
Constant crying
Crazy high temp this morning (compared to rest of cycle)
Brain not functioning
General cold symptoms (congestion, sneezing)
Breasts starting to hurt pretty bad
Felt so crappy that I told my boss I was sick and went home from work

I am only 5 DPO so I am leaning towards these being symptoms of a cold and not necessarily pg symptoms (except the breasts)... but, you never know! I don't usually have nausea when I have a cold!

[tjjazzy]

Originally Posted by lbkw

tjjazzy: just thought it is a crazy coincidence that your kids both have birthdays within about a week of my two and my AF is also due 10/30 this month. Good luck to you!

really? i wonder if we've been on these threads together before! Good luck to you too! i hope it's our month and we get a third child birthday coincidence!!

[lbkw]

Originally Posted by tjjazzy

really? i wonder if we've been on these threads together before! Good luck to you too! i hope it's our month and we get a third child birthday coincidence!!

I didn't use the threads before. My DS is 1/6/06 and DD is 9/19/08. Do you chart? I don't do temps b/c my ds woke up when I tried doing it to conceive dd. Just guessed and got it right based on cm (post m/c).

Was diagnosed with PCOS and used clomid for #1 and metformin for #2 and #3. I stopped Met as soon as I got BFP but that may have lead to m/c. We don't know, it was really early. My cycles have gotten back to "normal" since my PPAF in 1/2010 so we are TTC #4 without intervention for the first time! (I had PCOS diagnosis in my teens so we started clomid right away for #1.) This is cycle #1 and if we don't get BFP, not sure we'll try again on purpose right away since it would not be "great" timing...but we'll live with whatever, I guess.

[tjjazzy]

Originally Posted by lbkw

I didn't use the threads before. My DS is 1/6/06 and DD is 9/19/08. Do you chart? I don't do temps b/c my ds woke up when I tried doing it to conceive dd. Just guessed and got it right based on cm (post m/c).

Was diagnosed with PCOS and used clomid for #1 and metformin for #2 and #3. I stopped Met as soon as I got BFP but that may have lead to m/c. We don't know, it was really early. My cycles have gotten back to "normal" since my PPAF in 1/2010 so we are TTC #4 without intervention for the first time! (I had PCOS diagnosis in my teens so we started clomid right away for #1.) This is cycle #1 and if we don't get BFP, not sure we'll try again on purpose right away since it would not be "great" timing...but we'll live with whatever, I guess.

i use fertility friend but i don't take my temp at the moment. based on what i've been noting/recording, my chart says i'm fertile right now but it's CD 23! seems late in the game when my cycle was 26 days long last time. so confusing.

[maxwill129]

Originally Posted by RollerCoasterMama

Ok, so tiny little pin-prick twinges always in the same spot? I had several first on one side this morning, and now the other side this afternoon. I compared notes and she said she got the twinges with both of her pregnancies but only ever one side. She said the twinges in her 2nd pregnancy were what convinced her she was pregnant. She had singletons both time.

Opinions? Anyone else had the twinges? I can't remember from last time!! Gonna go dig up my old journal now.

Oh...definitely not implantation cramps...for one thing, it's too late and I think that would have been Sunday/Monday and another, it doesn't hurt enough.

Yay for something new to obsess about!!

I remember twinges...I can't remember if it was always one side or not. I can't remember anything today anyway, so that probably doesn't help. I'm feeling really PMS-y, like I want to write on my Facebook status (but won't do it so I'll do it here): I have PMS this week. Let me know how you would like me to yell at you: in person, over the phone or via email. I will try my best to accommodate your needs.

Anyway, I hope this is a GOOD SIGN for you! Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone!!!

[RollerCoasterMama]

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[TickleToes]

Originally Posted by musicoholic

@TickleToes... welcome!! What's your *hoped for* testing date?

I'm aiming for Friday, the 5th... if I can hold out that long... that will put AF being three days late. DS is more eager to test than me... he'd have me peeing on a stick now, if we had one

[HopefullyMama]

Just checking-in. Trying my best to stay strong. I had the worst day today!!! I felt like crap all day. Not pregnant -- just like crap. Extremely tired and pissed off and on the verge of crying. It's 7 days before AF is expected, and I'm just....grr. I want to test and I don't want to test, and I don't think ANYTHING would make me happy. Except maybe morning sickness

[musicoholic]

@TickleToes: you're added!! And my hubby's the same! lol

@HopefullyMama: I so know where you're coming from... My whole week has been like that! I think my students are treading very lightly at the moment (as they should be... lol). I'm usually sarcastic - but the last week or so I've been downright snappy I don't like it. And I agree... if I find out it's the right kind of hormones I'll be happy!!!

[jee'smom]

Originally Posted by maxwill129

Okay PLEASE tell us IMMEDIATELY after you test!!! And post pictures. I need me some BFP porn.

[jee'smom]

Originally Posted by maxwill129

As for me, I don't think I'm pregnant. I am a *itch today. This is one week before AF and we circle the week preAF on the calendar so DH knows if I say something mean or tell him I want a divorce it's my PMS talking and not me. But that's okay. I have 4 kids already and feel absolutely BLESSED to have them and if this doesn't happen I will be okay. But I am so rooting for the rest of you!!!

when i was pg with my 2 girls, i had all of my typical PMS symptoms, including uterine cramping. i KNEW i was not pg... but i actually was!

[jee'smom]

sign me up! af is due monday, nov. 1st. but i'm actually testing every other day from now until then, b/c we had 2 oopsies this month, one on cd9, and one on cd15 (my first 2 were coneived cd13 and my third on cd15). so i'd like to know which of the 2 oopsies ended up in a pg, if i am pg. so i've decided that i'm testing every other day until monday. (i bought dollar tree tests just so i can obsessively test guilt-free!) (sorry for the run-on rambling... i feel like such a *itch that i really don't care to put effort into making the words come out better. i have the most horrible PMS *itchiness right now... o.m.g...)

my uterus feels "funny", like heavy, blood-engorged... twingy, crampy... but this has happened to me one other time and i wasn't pg, so who knows!

[lbkw]

Originally Posted by musicoholic

I think my students are treading very lightly at the moment (as they should be... lol). I'm usually sarcastic - but the last week or so I've been downright snappy I don't like it. And I agree... if I find out it's the right kind of hormones I'll be happy!!!

OMG you are so pregnant. I had no pregnancy symptoms with my first except I turned into a real b*tch. My co-workers were like, what is wrong with you? Chill out! Then when I was pregnant with my daughter, I found one co-worker infinitely more annoying than ever and I think he was afraid of me from then on.

for you, musicholic

@tjjazzy: I think everything is so confusing. I kind of wish I could go at this blindly and just not think about every day and counting and symptoms, etc. I don't just do this when TTC, even when not, I always wonder. Even when there is NO chance, I still think I might be. It's insane. I wish toilets came with pregnancy tests built in so you could just be reassured every day BFP or BFN.

AFM: we are getting ready to leave on vacation and I can't decide if I want to test before we go or just wait. I don't drink or do adventure sports so it doesn't really matter. AF is due 10/29 or 10/30 but occasionally I have longer cycles for no apparent reason. (trust me I've tested and there are no BFPs) I have purchased an arsenal of feminine hygiene products to make sure I'm prepared while away. But it would be annoying in more ways than one if I get it.

[Sourire]

Originally Posted by lbkw

I wish toilets came with pregnancy tests built in so you could just be reassured every day BFP or BFN.

This is an awesome idea!!!

[lbkw]

Originally Posted by Sourire

This is an awesome idea!!!

I have actually read that they have something like that on the fancy toilets (TOTO) that most of Asia uses. But I think they use them for drug tests or diabetics or something. Trust me, the thing probably costs more than a million pregnancy test strips...but the idea of not having to think about testing makes it seem so nice.

[tourist.]

I'm really enjoying reading all the posts here. I can't wait until next week when we start seeing some 's! That's going to be so fun!

I'm currently trying to manage a triple load of obsession. 1) Waiting to test and analyzing every little thing my body does. 2) My DS. He's not doing anything out of the norm but he's awesome and is nearly all I think about. 3) Planning an unexpected November trip to London with my dh (which compounds my obsession #2 because DS is not coming with us ). It's a business trip for my DH, he has a 6 hour conference to attend, so I'm flying over to join him. I'm hoping that I'll be 6 weeks pregnant on that trip and that I'll survive being away from DS for 6 days. Poor DS...he still nurses in the evening and at night. I hope he does ok. He loves my MIL so he should be happy enough.

Here's some more sticky baby dust for us all!!

[lbkw]

Originally Posted by tourist.

I'm really enjoying reading all the posts here. I can't wait until next week when we start seeing some 's! That's going to be so fun!

I'm currently trying to manage a triple load of obsession. 1) Waiting to test and analyzing every little thing my body does.

I am totally there with you on your #1 obsession! I'm wondering whether having a BFP would help or not b/c then I'd just be obsessed on whether it will stick! After that, I could go on to be obsessed on whether I'll be able to VBAC (1st baby vag, 2nd baby breech/c).

Not sure whether any of those obsessions are healthy. Sending relaxing thoughts! Breathe, everyone. Our lives will go one whether or not we get our BFP this month.

[RollerCoasterMama]

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[maxwill129]

OMG! Can someone just cheat and test early? Oops. Did I just say that out loud? Seriously, waiting for all of you to test is killing me as much as waiting for myself to test!!!