What if...?

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What if...?
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Fri, 09-19-2003 - 10:59am
Hello,

I've been ttc#3 for about a year now, and now, on CD23 I'm getting anxious again. It's like that every time - I say that I won't think about it at all but every passing day I get more and more excited and during the last 1 or 2 days before AF I start thinking what I'll do if I AM pregnant, when the baby should be due etc. Then AF is here and I get all disappointed and teary. I don't want to do this but I can't seem to be able to convince myself otherwise. I don't know if I'm feeling any different or if anything I might notice is just because I WANT to notice it but doesn't mean anything. I don't even remember how I felt in my other two pregnancies because they happened so long ago, 9 and 7 years back. All I know is that right now I get mild cramps, just like all the other times prior to AF so I don't know why I could be pregnant this time. Just a couple of questions though...

-- I know the day I ovulated and did a lot of BD around it. I suffered the shock of a big loss on my ovulation day though, which is still raw and stressful so I don't know how that might have affected my BM chances. Could it? Anyone out there got PG under similar circumstances?

-- I've joined a gym for the past 3 months. I don't like exercise so I go to the tae-bo and step classes only (3 times a week). I don't need to lose weight, if anything I need to put some, but I did it mainly for stress relief. I've come to really enjoy it though so I wouldn't want to stop it. Could that be preventing me from getting PG?

Anyone on the same boat? How will I get through those torturing last few days?(My menstrual cycle is 25-27 days)HELP!!!
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In reply to: lillyf2003
Fri, 09-19-2003 - 12:05pm
No, it would not prevent it at all. Unlike you, I really enjoy working out and have done so faithfully for the past 3 yrs. 4-5 days per week each week. I lift a lot of weights and do cardio usually 5 days per week on treadmill for an hour each time. I am very, very fit, tall (5'8) and bodyfat around 14% so if anything I thought maybe I'd have problems but my doc assured me that it is not over the top at all. If my bodyfat got down 2% lower to 12% and I stopped my af's, that would be a big problem she said. We've only been ttc for the past month, first "real" cycle and we didn't achieve sucess yet but I am going to my doc next Mon. the 22nd to make sure I am Oing, I don't think I have for the past 3 mo. (we've used no protection since June this year) and nothing. I just don't feel it etc. and if I do O, it's very late in my cycle (cd 21-22)since I have a 35 day cycle each month, which really SUCKS since I have a less chance of Oing each month rather then someone with a cycle like yours. I think my doc suggest Clomid to me (fertility drug) to get me to start Oing sooner (sometimes Clomid can do this, sometimes not) but if I am not Oing on my own, Clomid will force O for sure and then about mid-cycle, I go for an US (ultra sound) and check my follicles and eggs and see how things are coming along.

I hope this helps you. I would not worry at all about working out 3x per week with that class, I also switch between the treadmill and a kick-boxing class too, I love it.

Julie

ttc #1

c 1

cd 29