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And if so, how are you superstitious?
I:
Sometimes feel like I cannot even think that someone might be pregnant, for fear that she will get AF.
Sometimes feel that if I say someone *isn't* pregnant on the forum, she will be!
Will not buy baby clothes or get the ones my sister has in storage at mom's house for me until I am pregnant (and probably out of the first trimester, but it depends on when my first visit back home is).
Will not buy baby related items until I'm safely pregnant.
Have thought about buying maternity pants (b/c they seem more comfy for my IBS belly-pooch, which makes me appear 5 months preggers sometimes) except I don't want to jinx myself!
Mike won't read the book his friend gave him on being an expectant dad until I get a BFP. (And silly friend, if he thought he'd get that book back quickly! :LOL) He also agrees with my "no baby clothes/ items before a BFP policy."
I have two fertility amulets that I keep under my pillow. They're both gifts, and the friend who gave one of them to me (hevea) is pregnant, as is Shannon, who also got one. So, I'm convinced they might help... For awhile, I was carrying the purple G-d-ss around with me in my bra, but I almost lost her in the toliet and stuck her under my pillow instead!)
I talk to M's sperm and to my uterus/ eggie outloud. And I say encouraging mantras (though I know they don't help, I still feel comforted doing this).
Ways I'm not superstitous:
I tell everyone we are TTC. I'd go into great lengths, if people allowed
(Mike would feel more comfortable not discussing it, but it's my body, my choice!)
We discuss names and birth and childrearing as-if it were a sure thing we're going to be pregnant...
So how about you? How are you superstitious? Do you wish you weren't? I do and don't -- being superstitious is comforting, in some ways. In other ways, it gives me a false sense of control I don't feel like I really have...
I:
Sometimes feel like I cannot even think that someone might be pregnant, for fear that she will get AF.
Sometimes feel that if I say someone *isn't* pregnant on the forum, she will be!
Will not buy baby clothes or get the ones my sister has in storage at mom's house for me until I am pregnant (and probably out of the first trimester, but it depends on when my first visit back home is).
Will not buy baby related items until I'm safely pregnant.
Have thought about buying maternity pants (b/c they seem more comfy for my IBS belly-pooch, which makes me appear 5 months preggers sometimes) except I don't want to jinx myself!
Mike won't read the book his friend gave him on being an expectant dad until I get a BFP. (And silly friend, if he thought he'd get that book back quickly! :LOL) He also agrees with my "no baby clothes/ items before a BFP policy."
I have two fertility amulets that I keep under my pillow. They're both gifts, and the friend who gave one of them to me (hevea) is pregnant, as is Shannon, who also got one. So, I'm convinced they might help... For awhile, I was carrying the purple G-d-ss around with me in my bra, but I almost lost her in the toliet and stuck her under my pillow instead!)
I talk to M's sperm and to my uterus/ eggie outloud. And I say encouraging mantras (though I know they don't help, I still feel comforted doing this).
Ways I'm not superstitous:
I tell everyone we are TTC. I'd go into great lengths, if people allowed

We discuss names and birth and childrearing as-if it were a sure thing we're going to be pregnant...
So how about you? How are you superstitious? Do you wish you weren't? I do and don't -- being superstitious is comforting, in some ways. In other ways, it gives me a false sense of control I don't feel like I really have...