Is it okay to start an "I'm not sure if I am yet" thread?

[Ooey]

Since it's still so early I'm guessing that there are others who are not sure yet. from my date of ovulation I'm guessing my due date would be around Jan 24th. I'm really not even sure how I feel about having another baby but just in the past few hours talking about it with DH and coming here to MDC I think I'm getting use to the idea.

We have an 11 month old daughter named Whilder and have been thinking about how nice it would be for her to have a sibling close to her age, but as DH is an only child and my siblings are much older niether of us have any experience with having children close in age. We were going to think more about it before deciding but after a super spontanious encounter that tuned out to be on O-day ( ) we are playing the waiting game.

I'd love to hear from you other mamas that are not sure yet... it's such a scary and exciting time.

[bobandjess99]

Welcome........I was stalking the December board WAY before there even WAS a Jan board...heehee!!

Best wishes!~

[*knittingmomma*]

welcome, I hope you join us!

[muttix2]

We had a little slip up, we are trying to avoid right now. I've been having symptoms that could be ovulation, could be pms, could be pregnancy. My cycles are irregular so I won't know until af shows up or doesn't. Tested today and it was negative but as I'm still a few days from the earliest that af would arrive, that could be wrong. If we hadn't had the slip up, I'd just dismiss how I've been feeling as getting sick or pms but since we did, I don't know

[frogleymom]

Originally Posted by Ooey

We have an 11 month old daughter named Whilder and have been thinking about how nice it would be for her to have a sibling close to her age, but as DH is an only child and my siblings are much older niether of us have any experience with having children close in age.

From my experience both growing up and with my own children, having kids close in age is AWESOME. I'm the oldest of seven, my youngest brother is 14 years younger than me, but the first 6 average 2 years apart. Two of my sisters are only 13 months apart and they are best friends. They're both in college right now and just spent their first year apart from each other. They both said it was really hard, but thankfully they both have Verizon cells and could call or text each other at least three times a day.

My own daughters are only 12 months apart. Much closer than I ever intended, but so far it's working out quite nicely. DD#2 is also 11 months, so #2 and #3 will be 19 months apart. I'm really glad we're having our kids close together. Good luck waiting for that BFP!!

Emily

[Ooey]

Originally Posted by frogleymom

From my experience both growing up and with my own children, having kids close in age is AWESOME. I'm the oldest of seven, my youngest brother is 14 years younger than me, but the first 6 average 2 years apart. Two of my sisters are only 13 months apart and they are best friends. They're both in college right now and just spent their first year apart from each other. They both said it was really hard, but thankfully they both have Verizon cells and could call or text each other at least three times a day.

My own daughters are only 12 months apart. Much closer than I ever intended, but so far it's working out quite nicely. DD#2 is also 11 months, so #2 and #3 will be 19 months apart. I'm really glad we're having our kids close together. Good luck waiting for that BFP!!

Emily

Emily, thanks so much for sharing your experience with having close siblings. The more I think about it the more excited I'm getting LOL. Is it possible to start having symptoms 3 days after O? I swear that my nipples are sore already and I'm having indigustion.

[Ooey]

I just wanted to say I'm 99.9% sure that I am

I have this strange feeling just like I did when I first found out I was pregnant with my daughter, it's like an underlying nausea LOL and slight dizzyness as well. I'm REALLY hoping this pregnancy will go better than the last one and that I won't end up in bed for months with horrible hyperemesis this time around though :

[muttix2]

Yay for you!

I'm still not sure. I have some cramping, a very small amount of brown spotting, nausea that comes and goes, mood swings like af is just around the corner... So my body is all over the board. I've taken two tests, cheapies, and both were negative. Both were last week though and I tested negative with one of my kids until a little over (or a little under, can't remember) a week past af. Leave it at, I'm still unsure but I'm leaning towards not.

[kehliouise]

im also thinking that my due date would be around jan. 23 or 24. my husband and i have a 25 month old son and weren't really planning on having anymore children even though we had talked about it, but there have been some recent encounters that already have me thinking i'm pregnant. i just sort of knew i was pregnant with our son the day we conceived, so it wasn't from symptoms of pregnancy just intuition i guess.
we misscarried last november and i also knew i was pregnant then. ofcourse i could be totally wrong this time.
i always wanted my children to be close in age, and ideally would have liked to have another one sooner. my sister and i were nine years apart and i always felt like an only child. i was jealous of my cousins who were only two years apart and like best friends.

[Ooey]

Originally Posted by kehliouise

im also thinking that my due date would be around jan. 23 or 24. my husband and i have a 25 month old son and weren't really planning on having anymore children even though we had talked about it, but there have been some recent encounters that already have me thinking i'm pregnant. i just sort of knew i was pregnant with our son the day we conceived, so it wasn't from symptoms of pregnancy just intuition i guess.
we misscarried last november and i also knew i was pregnant then. ofcourse i could be totally wrong this time.
i always wanted my children to be close in age, and ideally would have liked to have another one sooner. my sister and i were nine years apart and i always felt like an only child. i was jealous of my cousins who were only two years apart and like best friends.

Sounds like we have a lot in common Kehli! My brothers are 8 years older and 8 years yonger and though we are all friends now I always wanted a close sibling. I also feel like I knew from the day of conception by intuition. I hope you get the answere you want! What day are you planning to test? I keep testing and getting negitives but I'm only 6DP I'm just too egar I guess lol.

[kehliouise]

Well i would love to run out and get a test now and take it friday or saturday because that would be five days before my missed period (like the comercials say). With son number one i test negative until like ten days after expected af. So i guess i will just keep waiting. When are you going to test again? My cycle is normally extremely regular 28 days, but for the past two or three months it has been sort of off track. Once 31, once 35, and once 33. So I don't know if I should even have expected ovulation to happen on time either, but I did feel light cramping and an increase in mucus on that day.
The same here with my sister. Now that we are adults we are very close. We talk to each other atleast once or twice a day, but we never had a childhood together. My husband had two sisters. He wasn't that close to them, but they were extremely close. And he has the best stories. HAHA.

[Ooey]

Originally Posted by kehliouise

Well i would love to run out and get a test now and take it friday or saturday because that would be five days before my missed period (like the comercials say). With son number one i test negative until like ten days after expected af. So i guess i will just keep waiting. When are you going to test again? My cycle is normally extremely regular 28 days, but for the past two or three months it has been sort of off track. Once 31, once 35, and once 33. So I don't know if I should even have expected ovulation to happen on time either, but I did feel light cramping and an increase in mucus on that day.
The same here with my sister. Now that we are adults we are very close. We talk to each other atleast once or twice a day, but we never had a childhood together. My husband had two sisters. He wasn't that close to them, but they were extremely close. And he has the best stories. HAHA.

I have no idea when I should test. I don't want to see a neg test again, but I'm not exactly sure when to expect AF, last month I started on the 19th, but I've been a tad irregular since AF came back at 3months PP. I know that I O'd on May 3rd, and I guess you are suppose to wait AT LEAST 10DPO to test? With my first pregnancy I tested at home the day AF was due and got a neg, then went in for a blood test two days later, so I don't know how long it would have taken to get a positve HPT, but I get the feeling I would have been like you, 10 days late before a BFP

[J-Max]

I am tentatively sticking my head in here

AF is not expected untill Sunday, and I will probably test Sun morning is she does not show.

I do not have any preg symptoms, except more CM now than normal. I usually get nauseaus before I am even late enough to test, and have not been at all, so that makes me wonder. We are "trying" for a boy (2nd month), and I just have a feeling that it may have worked this time. We are taking my sister out for her 21st birthday tomorrow, and I will probably have a drink (everyone will really wonder and question if I don't, and I am not ready to share - not that I have anything to share )

My temps are all over the map, I was not consistent on timing this month. Here is my chart, do any of you experienced charts have an comments?

[Everrgreen]

Hello,
I am waiting to see if I am!!! I am going to test Sunday, although I don't expect AF until Wednesday or Thursday. I don't think I have any symptoms. Sometimes I swear I have cramps or a backache but it may be all in my head. My ovulation pains were really bad this month, they lasted 3 full days. Anyway, good luck everyone!

[JustKiya]

To EVERYONE!!

I test on the 19th, would be due on the 28th, so - we shall see. TTC'ing our first, so I have no 'signs' to go on. I FELT odd last cycle, but wasn't. I feel totally normal this cycle, so - maybe THAT's the good sign....

[Spirulina&Sage]

im not 100% sure, but i think i am..
i was due to start my moon on the 6th and its now the 10th and nothing..not even spotting. im peeing lots, getting up in the night, very tired, headachy, nursing is irritating and i feel like my baby doesnt like my milk right now.. im emotional (i keep crying about silly things) and my pants feel tight even though ive been eating super healthy and less/smaller than usual..

i did POAS about 3 days before af was due and got a negative..i should have waited it out but now im just going to wait a bit longer since my cycles are a bit off still. my daughter is 18 months old and ive only had about 4 cycles..but they have been progressivly shorter..

anyways.. im lurking and hoping!

[muttix2]

Good luck to everyone!

Af came sometime in the week of the 8th last month. So, I'm waiting to test again until Sunday. Haven't tested since last week but dh wants to be there to test (I've "surprised" him 3 times with the news of pregnancy and he wants to witness any future test taking ) so I'm holding off until I can be sure that af should have shown her face by that point. Of course, it could be neg and still pos later since I tested pos so late with ds but I can't hold out for two more weeks. So if no af by Sunday, I'll test again.

[Spirulina&Sage]

ooHh.. im so nausous. all of a sudden i just feel so pukey.

[angela1435]

Hi! If I am pregnant I will be due the 31st. So I thought I would jump in the am I or aren't I thread. LOL. I am not sure when I ovulated. If it is when I am supposed to it was yesterday but I am pretty sure it was a few days ago. I took an OPK and it was pretty dark and the next day it was really light. SO we shall see. I am not testing until at least 10 days from now though.

[Bughead]

Originally Posted by earthymama2b

I test on the 19th, would be due on the 28th, so - we shall see. TTC'ing our first, so I have no 'signs' to go on. I FELT odd last cycle, but wasn't. I feel totally normal this cycle, so - maybe THAT's the good sign....

I totally know what you mean!! That happened to me with DS#1. It took us 4 months to conceive, and the one month I didn't have any obvious symptoms was the one I was pregnant. Before that every little twinge had me thinking I was!

Oh, and FWIW I didn't get with either of my boys until day 30-31 and even then it was faint. This time I was going to wait until day 32 just to be safe, but caved and tested the evening of day 30 since I had already bought the test and got a solid positive. I was shocked!