I'm scared, please help!!!

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I'm scared, please help!!!
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Fri, 09-05-2003 - 7:04pm
So I don't have a confirmed BFP, but I'm 98% sure that I am pg. Like an IDIOT, I thought it would be ok if I mowed the lawn today. Well, I had a hard time starting the thing (yanking the chain thing or whatever it is) and then I started cramping. Not really badly, but enough for me to notice and worry. It pretty much went away after I stopped, but then I went to the bathroom and started spotting a little. Just some pinkish CM. Did I just basically kill my baby? I can't believe I was so stupid!! I didn't think it would hurt anything to mow the grass. I'm so upset I want to start crying!!! PLEASE someone tell me everything is going to be ok!!!!!!!!!!
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Registered: 06-24-2003
Fri, 09-05-2003 - 9:26pm
Hi Camille, just checking the board to see what's been going on with you lately. I sure hope you get a BFP this time around.

As for the whole incident, I wouldn't worry about it. At this point in a pg, the baby is the size of like nothing and is SO WELL PROTECTED!! Yanking on the mower and cramping can be just mere coincidence or related to each other. Perhaps you turned your body the wrong way or something. Who knows. Just relax and try not to worry about it too much. I know that's going to way easier said then done, given your situation (DH leaving soon).

If August/Sept isn't your month, do you still have another month to try? I know you said DH was leaving soon, but I thought it wasn't till like Dec. or something. My DH returns in October. If timing is right, we can try, if not, we'll still be on hold until next April...UGH!!

Keep in-touch,

Erika

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Fri, 09-05-2003 - 9:55pm
Erika!

Hey girl! How have you been? Either I've been missing your posts or you've been MIA :) Actually, he'll be gone before I'm fertile again. His schedule got moved up AND extended, gotta love the Navy! Anyway, unless he re-enlists or goes to OCS (and that man changes his mind every other month!) then he's getting out of the Navy in a year and a half (or two years, depending on if they short-cycle him) Anyway... this story is getting confusing to me even! By the time he's back, it would push the due date to when I need to be starting my teaching career and not giving birth/just out of the delivery room. And one of us needs to have a for sure job. (He SHOULD have one, but ya never know these days!) So if I got pg NOW, then it'd be perfect timing (unless his next deployment gets extended and I deliver without him! UGH!) Are you still with me? LOL. It would have been perfect as far as timing goes. i thought we were going to have one more cycle in case this one was a bust, but it doesn't look that way.

I hope that all goes well for you and you won't have to worry about TTC in April!! :)

Camille

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Registered: 06-11-2003
Fri, 09-05-2003 - 11:39pm
Hi,

How did you know you were 98% positive? Possibly you weren't pg and just late with AF and it started? I'm not sure about the effects of difficult household tasks on a pg that early. I hope that everything is ok and that you probably just started AF and nothing worse. Please keep us in touch and let us know how you are.

Claire

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Registered: 08-17-2003
Sat, 09-06-2003 - 12:09am
Camille,

I am in your boat for the most part. i had a similar incident last night. I also feel 98.9 percent sure that I am PG. I have had mild cramping here and there but last night.... I was lying in bed and I streched my legs in an awkward way (I was restless and reading, not paying attention) Suddenly I felt a dagger going straight up me. I felt like my uterus was spasming (like a giant cramp or contraction). I totally freaked and was 98.9 percent sure that I was having a m/c and I don't even have a +++ yet by testing. I had intermittant cramping (mild) during the day. I did not have the bleeding, however. After thinking about it more I remembered that I had stretched and thought that definately brought it on and felt horrible about it. My Dr. was out and so I went to work, and by the time I got out it was closed. ER didn't seem necessary. the posts I recieved on teh MAY EXPECTING BOARD (chit-chat) were helpful and helped ease my anxieties.

Many mentioned Round Ligament Pain which can be painful but harmless.Mine was central lower abdomen and very strong, straight up me, but subsided after a few minutes. I wouldn'tthink that would happen do early but it can from what I have read and excercise or sudden, abrupt movements can trigger it (and a spasm). Hormones make this rapid expanding begin to start making room. I found a lot of literature in it when I did a web search!

Anyway, I was hoping one of the ladies in the board would write and say "the samethig happen to me and I delivered a healthy full term baby". That is why we lurk around these boards, right? It isn't to replace medical advise, rather it is to find others who can relate and to keep reminding us to relax and enjoy the natural wacky-but-worrisome, miracle of pregnancy! That's why I come to talk to you all! I don't runto the Doctor unkess it is absolutely necessary. I hope toeven avoid them when I deliver (midwife). If I were six months pregnant I would but like you said, If I m/c then nothing will stop that anyway.

Okay, that was my ramble. Keepus posted on your results. When is AF due? I am due around the 14th so I have at least ten days!!!

Good Luck to us!

Mia

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Sat, 09-06-2003 - 1:42am
Mia,

"I was hoping one of the ladies in the board would write and say "the samethig happen to me and I delivered a healthy full term baby". That is why we lurk around these boards, right? It isn't to replace medical advise, rather it is to find others who can relate and to keep reminding us to relax and enjoy the natural wacky-but-worrisome, miracle of pregnancy! That's why I come to talk to you all! I don't runto the Doctor unkess it is absolutely necessary. I hope toeven avoid them when I deliver (midwife). If I were six months pregnant I would but like you said, If I m/c then nothing will stop that anyway."

Thank you! Those are my sentiments exactly!! I'm not due to test until Tuesday and don't expect AF until Wed or Thur (I say "due" to test bc of Magic MIL, but I guess if I were patient I should wait until I was late... I never said I was patient and since M-MIL gave me the go ahead for Tuesday, I'm gonna do it! lol) I have been using OPKs as HPT, I've taken two and have gotten positives (I know there is some controversy as to whether or not this is an accurate HPT, but I have them here and it relieves my need to test and it gives me the answer I want to see! ;)

I definitely FEEL pregnant, altho, since earlier, I've been thinking "Do I feel different? Are my symptoms lessening?" I have an overactive imagination.

I've read on boards too many times where someone will post that they FEEL pg but got a BFN, then someone will respond and say "It's just IPS, you're not pg" and then they will turn out to be pg a few days later. I've had IPS once before, and this time feels decidingly different. I just KNOW. (Which is funny, bc I'm scared to take a HPT so soon and get a BFN because its too soon or something. I'm flat broke right now and I only have ONE test left, ack!)

Here are BFP and sticky vibes to you!!! +++++ :) Maybe we'll both be on the May/June board sometime soon!!

Camille

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Sat, 09-06-2003 - 3:28am
I am a lurker but I thought I would post something here...I am a past ttcer with unexplained infertility for several years..and I did have an RN license at one time until I decided to stay at home with my children and therefore didn't want a job...I have never heard of using an opk to detect pg...the hormones it picks up are not hcg...and are truly meant to detect ovulation only...as far as being in miscarriage...without truly knowing you are pg it is impossible to tell for sure...if you want to test I would recommend First Response...it detects a very low amount of hcg so you can test early..and even if slight line..I would say you were pg...as far as the bleeding...it really could be anything...from implantation bleeding to hormonal changes to breakthrough bleeding..hard to tell without the bfp of the hpt...I would try not to worry because I would seriously doubt that mowing the lawn would cause a miscarriage unless you are prone to them...the baby is almost indestructable in the first two weeks of pg...and unless it truly wasn't meant to be because of chromosone abnormalities..then I would highly doubt it..of course I am not speaking as a medical proffessional...I would suggest going to your doc for an hcg draw...that would give you a definite right now...Has the bleeding stopped...I hope you are feeling better and try not to worry...

Angelia




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