TTC while Nursing in NOVEMBER - Page 4

[LivingSky]

skycheattraffic - Blue dye tests are notorious for producing false positives. So for future reference, no one ever buy a test that is ablue dye instead of pink dye! That said, a positive on a blue dye doesn't necessarily mean you're not pregnant, just that it could go either way. I hope you get results soon to end the uncertainty! Not knowing is the WORST!

AFM: Should be ovulating late this week or early next week. DTD begins tonight and hopefully every other night until well after O! We have to sneak in DTD after DS is asleep. No way would it happen with him awake! I'm still trying to convince DH that it's okay to DTD when DS is asleep in the same room...

[MyKidKissTrees]

ah!  the suspense is killing me!! hehe.  

[LivingSky]

Oh, wanted to add something because a few people have talked about it - moving O dates versus longer LP. For the vast majority of women, your LP length is constant. Taking things like B vitamins can lengthen it, but it is in no way changed by your O date. Ovulation can be delayed/moved up by a ton of external factors - stress, diet, vitamins/herbs, medication, all sorts of things - but your LP will remain the same from the date of ovulation. So if you usually have a 10 day LP, you can expect AF (or hopefully not if you're TTC!) 10 days after ovulation, regardless of whether O happens on CD14 or CD20 or CD30.

[skycheattraffic]

Thank you LivingSky. That is excellent to know! No more blue tests, ever! I honestly feel like I wasted $16 on the two pack. It would have been less infuriating if a digital test said "um.. maybe" lol. My gut is now telling me I'm probably not preggo but I'm weirded out by the lateness since I got my PPAF over a year ago. I bet it's the nursing. DD figured out what we were up to and used nursing to defend herself and remain an only child a tad longer lol. Beware the nursing ninjas!!!!

[MyKidKissTrees]

OMG, since i o'd this month my son has been ATTACHED to me NON-stop all night, all day.  he KNOWS! and he does NOT want to share his boobies 

i hope my LP will get longer!  it was only 8 days last time.  I think I will cry if its 8 days again this month!

[TenzinsMama]

I'm excited to start seeing some bfps on here!  Watching this thread daily for some good news...

Hey, what do you think...I'm now waiting for my 2nd PPAF, and I'm currently on CD16. Two days I started having EWCM, and last night I used an OPK that had just the faintest of line.   Today I didn't have as much EWCM, and I'm reluctant to use another OPK now because I'm thinking it's not going to show a darkening line at all, and so why waste the test.  But, what if... ???  Ugh, the cost will evenutally add up (I am using internet cheapies) if it's on/off like this for awhile-- so frustrating!  But then if I don't use them, how will I know when the batch of EWCM is the 'one' leading up to an egg being released... I would hate to miss it.  Especially when DTD is so hard to squeeze in (never thought I would say that, but DH and I are pretty tired at the end of the day).  Do any of you have this on/off pattern in your cycles as your cycles are regulating themselves, and, did you use OPKs anyway?  I remember last time after pregnancy, my LP was short-- but I don't recall the on/off thing happening with EWCM as much as this.  Ha ha, I told DH that I would take a relaxed approach to ttc'ing, but that's not working... If I had enough OPKS in stock and didn't care about the cost, I'd test every day... I'm trying not to let him see how serious I am tracking my cycles, because I don't want to make DTD a totally timed thing, but yesterday I ended up leaving my paper chart on the table and the pack of sticks and cup on my bathroom counter... oops.

[MyKidKissTrees]

Yeah DH and I dont do well with TIMED events either.  This time though I got my + OPK much earlier than expected and so we happened to have just DTD and so there was no pressure.  

[skycheattraffic]

Well it looks like I don't have to worry about finding a better HPT: I'm pregnant!!!
Based on my guesstimate, I'm about 5 weeks or so. Both my mom and MIL had a feeling and I kind of talked myself out of it - boy am I glad to be wrong!!
Thank you ladies so much!! Please move me to the appropriate category.

Lots of BFP's for everyone!!

[MyKidKissTrees]

Skycheat!!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!!! SOO excited for you!!  I kept stalking like all day :)  woohoo!!!

[LivingSky]

Congrats skycheattraffic!!!

[AudreyB3]

Skycheattraffic, congratulations!!!

[100%mom]

Congratulations!!!

I'm just a lurker. We aren't TTC or preventing. Just waiting for God to bless us again.

For the last week and a half I've been feeling sick so we'll see. I tested Monday and last Tuesday but they were both negatives.

My baby is almost 10 months and AF has not returned, but then I've gotten pg without it before. :)

[MyKidKissTrees]

 100%Mom!!!!  I hope you will get a nice BFP soon!!!

[Blonhrt88]

Skycheattraffic, YEAY!

AFM...I don't know what to do but summarize. Thrush, no sleep, stress ulcers, and I had juuuust started the two. Hopefully if. Did conceive I have a strong bean. DS has been putting me on a wild ride with this!

[TenzinsMama]

Skycheattraffic, that's wonderful news!  Congrats!  Hopefully you have started the bfps rolling out!

Blonhart-- oh no!  Hope things get better soon!

[Blonhrt88]

Thanks tenzins mama!

I'm also nauseated and my breasts are tender, but I'm thinking that may be because of the stress and thrush? Trying not to get excited. It's another week and a half before AF is due.

[skycheattraffic]

Thank you ladies! I was freaking out a little but this calm descended over me: it will be all right. DD will adapt and she will still be showered with love. She will nurse and if she stops, that isn't something I can change anyways. We will put a mattress on the floor in DD's room so I can nurse her to sleep and be comfy if I pass out. I will have a newborn but a lot can change in nine months and DD will grow and mature and will be able to handle it. It will be fine, we will make it work. I had an uncomplicated pregnancy and a good (though induced and medicated) birth with DD and I trust my body to grow and birth a healthy little peanut. I'd love to go into labour naturally this time and try a midwife shared care, maybe try birthing naturally in a hospital setting. I trust DD will be fine away from me for a day or so even if there are tears (from both sides). I'm in a good place... Now all I have to do is get DH to relax lol

[MyKidKissTrees]

Yikes Blonhrt!  Thats awful!! strong bean indeed!!  

AFM:  definitely have a UTI.  I felt a tinge and should have know (i use to get them chronically years ago, but havent had them in forever).  Ignored the tinge... DTD... next day... KIDNEY PAIN.  SWEET!  Loading up on cranberry supplements, ACV, vit D and C... and Dh gave me his COLD as well... YAY!  Little man is was getting in a molar so hes been literally attached to me all night for the last 3-4 days!  yay!  I'm thinking I will need a super sticky baby this time as well... otherwise December is the month!!  

But its the weekend!  And we have lots planned so I need to tough it up!  I think December would be a great month to conceive though.  So much going on that I would forget all about it!!  Even this month we've been super busy and the days have just skipped by!

sticky baby vibes to all my TWW mamas!!! 

Skycheat, glad you are in a good place!  all will be fine :)  a sibling is like giving you child a playdate everyday.  My daughter would be so bored without her brother to play with.  They are currently wearing socks and slipping around on the wood floors pretending to accidentally fall and laughing hysterically.  

[StephandOwen]

Congrats Skycheattraffic!!!!! 

I went to my OB for my annual and pap today. I absolutely love this guy. He's so crass in some ways that I think a lot of women would be turned off and would probably never go back! He just fits mine and dh's personality well. He asked what I was using for birth control. I told him nothing, that DH and I were trying for a 3rd. He just smiled said "go home, have sex as much as possible and I'll probably see you back here within a few months".  If only it were that easy 

[MyKidKissTrees]

haha, sounds like a funny guy StephandOwen :) 

SO... I'm totally freaking out, because tomorrow I am supposed to get my period... and I just don't feel like it.  I don't feel or look bloated.  I'm a little irritable but whats new?  ive been irritable for MONTHS... years?  haha.  But my CF is NOT dry at all and DH wont leave me alone.  I'm probably just psyching myself up though!  And I'll get my period tomorrow night and be all depressed and miserable... 

p.s. I totally cured my UTI.  I am SHOCKED.  all those pre-crunchy years where i would go through antibiotic after antibiotic it would take at least a week for the pain to stop.  I literally took 5000 mg of cranberry supplements for three days, two days of 50,000 ius of vit D, 1 day of 25 billion pearl probiotics.  And I went from pain in my kidney to none?  Man.  Nature just got a little more of my faith ;)

Anyone else freaking as they near the end of the TWW...