am I pg? or just overthinking?
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| Sat, 07-14-2007 - 10:47pm |
I had something very strange happen to me this month but all I can think of is that it's due to my body trying to readjust after my first child, Addison. The first day of the last time I saw AF was June 13th, which with my usually regular ovulation, would mean I was due to O at approx June 27th. But nothing happened. I have regular cramps and lots of CM when I O and nothing happened. I waited what seemed like forever because I figured I had just missed it and may have become pg but instead, I O'd sometime around July 8th or 9th.(2 weeks late). I should have had AF on July 13th-ish but AF hasn't come. I have some symptoms but I'm trying to figure out it is AF or pg because with Addison, everything just followed PMS symptoms until I realized I was a week and a half late.(I was really busy at the time because normally I can be very obsessive about testing). Anyhow, Thursday, July 12th my breasts became sore but mainly only around the nipples and areola (tmi, sorry) in which it hurts the most when he nurses. My tummy popped out from what seems like bloating but it did that last time, but mainly, I usually dry up after I O and I am still at a wet consistency. There is nothing about this in signs or symptoms of pg anywhere I look but I do know you tend to have cm throughout pg. Does anyone recall if they had this happen before? I'm only at 7 dpo (but at 21 dp when I should have ovulated and though I was pg the first time) so I have a while to wait still and am going crazy over all this waiting. Can anyone at least help me ease my brain a little or even take a shot at why my O was 2 wks late? I overthink things much too often but I am a thinker and I just can't help it. Thanks for any and all ideas.
Alaina
momma to Addison, 6 months, 2 weeks

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Oh my, I could have sent this post myself. In fact, I was on here to write the exact same thing! I have had every symptom that you mentioned, and I've been testing randomly and all BFN. I've had two periods since my son was born in December, and those two put me at a 30/31 day cycle. Well, it's day 35 and nothing. Absolutely nothing, but if I did ovulate two weeks late (which I think I did, based on my CM) then I should still have about a week left before AF. I'm confused because, like you, I have the same kinds of eggwhite CM and that persistent "wet" feeling (I know, tmi) and it's been really weird. I'm wondering if it just takes a while after baby for your cycle to regulate a bit. At this point, I just want to know what is happening with my body. Good luck and hopefully someone has some insight.
Andrea
Will 12/8
If you ovulated 2wks late then your period will be 2wks late so dont count it as being late yet. Your period always comes (about) 2wks after you ovulate (most think you ovulate 2wks after your last period) but its actually the other way around, you ovulate THEN your period is due 2wks later.
Rachel
Rachel wife to Brian, mommy to Zachary (1999) Tayleigh (2001) Nicholas (2003), Keaten (2004) and Hayden 8-6-08 mymzie@comcast.net
Andrea
I find that so interesting that someone else is experiencing the exact same thing as I. I don't know if I had it in the first posting but I started AF at 2 months or so PP. My CM is running creamy or so and consistently "wet" like you said. I do know that with my first, one of the reasons I found out I was pg was because I had a bacterial infection that had started and someone I had talked to that was already pg had told me that that's how she found out she was pg. I was approx. 5 1/2 weeks when I found out and so if I had stayed wet (which I don't remember one way or another), it's about right that I ended up with an infection. btw, it cleared up on it's own after a short while of trying to fix it, finding out i was pg, and stopping taking the medication I was on. You will have to let me know what happens for you (even before the week is up, any changes are fine). It helps to know that someone else is dealing with this too although I don't wish it on anyone). If AF is a week away for me, then I definitely started the symptoms of it early.
I'm currently trying to finish up my bachelor's degree, (I'm 22 and don't want to leave it unfinished in case I need it later) and only have a year left so we were trying not to get pg until after August at least but I can't say that I'd be mad if I was but I can say after all this, I'd be dissappointed if I am not. I'll have a month and a half left in my last semester if I am pg and the baby comes on time (the first was 10 days early) but I'll make it work somehow.
Above all, please keep in touch.
Alaina
Rachel
thank you so much, that is what I thought and am waiting but it just all has thrown me for a loop, and all this waiting is driving me crazy.
Alaina
Hi Alaina,
I'm 27 (28 tomorrow) and a teacher. We were hoping for a spring baby so that I can time up my maternity leave with the end of the school year. However, we tried that with DS and ended up with a December baby, which reminds me some things are out of my control. :) I remember very clearly the symptoms I had with DS and I haven't had the frequent urination or the sore bbs so most days I've convinced myself that I'm not pregnant. Although, I can't ignore the fact that I have no symptoms of AF either. I guess that I just assumed that since I had some of the "classic" symptoms with DS that I would have the same or simliar symptoms with any additional pregnancy. The part of me that's hoping that I am pregnant and just don't know it yet wishes that the symptoms are just different. If I really think about it, I've had some symptoms but they've been so different that I can write them off as something else.
For a couple of weeks I thought that maybe I had thrown off my cycle by obsessing about it, but now I'm not sure. When I thought that maybe I O'd two weeks late, we bd'd once last week but I don't know if we timed it right because everything was wacky. After reading your post, I'm hoping that I have a surprise March/April baby that just doesn't want everyone to know it's in there. The worst part is, DH and I are taking a little trip to Boston for my birthday and leaving DS with my parents and I swore I wouldn't obsess about it on our vacation. I am, however, packing tampons and pregnancy tests. I hope someone at airport security has fun scanning my bags! We get back Thursday night and hopefully if there's a bun, I'll know by the end of the week.
Please let me know what's happening with you. I know that might be stressful timing up baby with the end of the semester and all if you're pregnant but we find ways to make anything work, right? :) Above all, it's just been great to hear some of your story and know that I'm not the only one going through these things.
Good luck,
Andrea
Andrea
Anything new come up yet? I've taken a couple of hpt's but it's still too early and they were bfn. I'm going to take another probably Thursday or Friday. All this waiting is so hard! However, until Monday night my symptoms had stayed consistent with what I had written before. Monday night however, I was working and had to concentrate on staying up straight because I became dizzy on and off for a couple of hours. Then today, I had a couple of headaches and went on and off of feeling nauceous. I don't know if you had m/s with your son but if you did, you know how normal nausea is a little different than m/s? I've been experiencing that different m/s feeling on and off all day. So now it's just the waiting game still. I'm trying not to keep my hopes up but I can't help it.
Alaina
Hi Alaina,
I don't know if the last response I wrote actually sent, so...
Still no sign of AF as of today (CD 43). I had a little cramping this morning but that's pretty much gone now. I took a test last Friday but that was negative, too. I've had some creamy CM but not a lot so I've basically written that off as a sign. Other than that, I've just been a little tired and crabby, but we've been travelling the last week so I think that's normal. Anyway, at this point, I want AF to start because I'm so tired of getting my hopes up for a positive HPT that I can't stand it anymore. This makes me realize over and over again just how lucky DH and I were with DS. I knew it might take a little longer with the next one depending on when I got my period back and all but I'd take regular and not pregnant to not knowing anything at all at this point. I've been taking tests since July 4...
Anything new in your situation? Still having some dizziness and nausea? Those could be very definite pg symptoms. Keep me posted, I've been wondering!
Andrea
Hi,
I'm new on here so please bare with me. I am 36, have 3 beautiful children and my man of 8 years and I are finally getting married and trying to have a baby. I know my body pretty well and have w/in the last 5 days become extremely dizzy and nauseated. I had a strange cycle that lasted only 2 full days on the 11th of this month and I had a test at the dr's office on Friday and it was negative. But today is Monday and the symptoms are exactly the same along with more, my back is killing me and I can't have been constipated. It's been 10 years for me so how soon can you tell if you are pg and how soon will a test pick up the hormone?
Its different for every woman but typically, you can test at the very earliest 10 dpo. Most women do not get a positive until at 14 dpo but some don't get a positive until well into the pregnancy and so a blood test is necessary to be able to tell. You probably weren't far enough along on friday if you are pg for the doctor's test to register even if you do register at 14dpo. The symptoms you have can definitely be pg symptoms but then again, I'm not a doctor. I hope this helps some. Good luck!
Alaina
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