Preg. with AF??

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Registered: 08-03-2003
Preg. with AF??
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Wed, 11-12-2003 - 9:38am
I have just got my AF full force, how likely is it that i am preg.? Because i hear that some women get their AF during pregnancy.
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Registered: 07-16-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 9:51am
hi again! if this AF is just as heavy and about the same in color and contains about the same amount of clots - basically, if it's a normal AF for you - you probably aren't. generally, when women have a period while they're pregnant, it's lighter than usual, is more pink or brownish in color, and contains very few, if any, clots. bleeding experienced during pregnancy, while it can follow the pattern of past periods, isn't really a period. your period sheds pretty much all of the lining of your uterus, a "period" during pregnancy would be more like breakthrough bleeding while on the pill (unless something is going on with the pregnancy).

a while back, i had myself convinced that i was pregnant even though i had gotten my AF. i made myself so sick between the worrying and the having convinced my body it was pregnant! if you aren't, accept it and celebrate!! good luck!

*anna~rae*

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Registered: 10-13-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 10:56am
ok well then i have a question for you. i have missed my entire pack of birth control pills. i stopped taking the rest because at the time that i missed a few i had ovulated and had unprotected sex. so there was a chance that i was pregnant. i have had slight cramps not period cramps for a while, tummy is sore and lower back pains. the thing that threw me off was i was supposed to start my period yesterday and nothing. this morning i have had spotting. i dont need to wear a pad nothing. sometimes its light sometimes its darker but thats it. so what do you think that is
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Registered: 11-10-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 11:25am
ok.....THIS will make a believer out of u.....i had an appt. for a pap smear, realized i had to cancel it b/c it was due the week of my period. and just like clockwork, af came....irony is, when i went in for pap following week- i was informed i was pg!...and 8 weeks at that!....i even had two more cycles after that month...like clockwork!lol.....so to answer u'r question..i am not an ovary or anything but.....i say "possible! lol

good luck!!!!!!!!1
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 1:25pm
That is crazy! I can't believe you were pg. I spotted for a day last month. Then stopped. Then had a regular period....but I've had many symptoms since then including acne, nausea, sore breasts with very blue veins and bumps and cramping. So could it still be a possiblity then?

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Registered: 07-16-2003
Wed, 11-12-2003 - 8:41pm
i'm very sure stranger things have happened than women having somethat that at least resembles a period when they are actually pregnant! but usually, they don't have anything heavy enough to be mistaken for one. *usually* i went to the doctor after having had one AF that was way lighter then normal, then one that was lighter and lasted half as long, and when i said that i thought i might be pregnant, he looked at me a little like i was nuts. don't you hate when people who should know better can't believe it because their book says something different??

i'm just trying to calm the girl so she doesn't psych her body into thinking it's pregnant if it's not! ask anybody who's done that before, it sucks!

*anna~rae*

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Thu, 11-13-2003 - 9:56am
I know! I feel like psychosomatically I'm creating symptoms...although my breasts are very sore and the veins and bumps are very noticable. I'm sure I'm not. I love this site because for that same reason I feel so stupid talking to anyone about it because I feel like I MUST be making it up in my head and that I'll sound loony! LOL! But who knows. Thanks for the response! Are you expecting?!
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Thu, 11-13-2003 - 12:41pm
me? um....i'm not sure yet. i'm technically two days late; two days before AF should have started, i had extremely light spotting for two days (like, i only noticed it on tp once each day), then yesterday (the day she was due) i had light spotting all day (still only noticable on tp tho). and now today, nothing. i've been feeling a little woozie (kinda sick to my stomach and dizzy at the same time - not really like i'm actually going to throw up) for a couple of days, so i suppose it's possible. but this also is only my first cycle since being on b/c (yasmin), so i'm not betting on it being more than just adjusting just yet. i think i'll test like thanksgiving if i haven't gotten an AF by then. (i'll try to wait that long, anyway!!) my hubby and i aren't TTC, we're just "tempting fate" (as he says) every once in awhile. we've had unprotected sex twice since i took my last pill, so i guess it is possible, isn't it? *hehe*

*anna~rae*

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 11-14-2003 - 1:26pm
We started to use the spermicide film, which I now know isn't extremely effective, for me made it kind of exciting because a large part of me really wants a baby. I've been crampy today and I feel bloated. It's a very close call....my period shouldn't be until at least the 24th so it could definately be pms symptoms. My chest doesn't hurt right now but it was sooo tender yesterday. Have you been married long? We just got married at Disney World in June. ...by the way...what does AF stand for? I don't know any of this lingo!
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Registered: 07-16-2003
Fri, 11-14-2003 - 8:29pm
AF is aunt flo - your period. i'll have been married 4 months on 11/17. my husband and i started dating in january of this year, and on the 5th day we were going out, (we had already told each other that we loved each other) we were talking about some of our goals for our lives, and everything just clicked. so he asked me to marry him! i guess we rush into everything together, which is funny cuz alone, we both take our time with most things. my friends used to joke about how i was afraid of commitment cuz i had dated a guy for a long time that everybody figured i'd marry, but whenever things between us got too good, we'd break up for some reason. maybe we just knew that it wasn't meant to be more than dating, huh? *hehe* good luck!!!

*anna~rae*