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My Due Date: March 4, 2018I am postpartum » My due date was more than 2 weeks ago
Age: 33 years old
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First timer!
By alexism4 » Posted Jun. 26, 2017 4:10pm - 246 views - 1 comment
After 4 months TTC, I'm finally pregnant! I was so scared that I wasn't ovulating when we started because I could never get a positive ovulation test. 3 months went by with no success. I finally started tracking my BBT and got a temp spike that confirmed ovulation. We'd happened to BD the day before the spike, meaning our timing was unintentionally perfect. And we were only able to do it once before ovulation, so I feel even more lucky that we were successful.
The funny thing is, right when we were finished, I just knew we had conceived. It was such a strange feeling, but I just KNEW that we had made a baby. I said as much to DH and he agreed with me, he felt it too. So I went in to the TWW knowing I would get a positive at the end, yet afraid of being wrong. I told myself I could not test until 14dpo no matter how badly I wanted to; I had to wait the full two weeks.
The morning of 12dpo, I woke up before my alarm because my breasts were so sore. I'd been having sore breasts since 5dpo but didn't want to think it was more than just PMS, so I didn't put much store into it. But that morning was definitely different, so I knew I had to take a test. Imagine my shock when the faintest second pink line showed up on my internet cheapie test. It was so faint I wasn't quite sure it was there, but the longer I looked, the more obvious it was. I immediately showed my husband, and he couldn't see it, but he believed me. He had known all along I was pregnant. I decided to take a FRER the next morning. I figured that if an internet cheapie could pick it up, then a FRER would give me a clearer answer.
But it was negative. I looked and squinted and pored over it but I couldn't see a definite line. I thought I saw the faintest of faint lines, but I couldn't be sure, so I considered it negative. I was completely torn up. The whole day I was depressed and irritable, praying it was just too early and not a chemical pregnancy. The next morning, 14dpo, I took another internet cheapie test and got the clear positive I'd been hoping for. I could confirm that I was pregnant!
DH and I are so excited. We've been married for 3 1/2 years and this is our first child. I'm a little scared about how sick I'll get (all the women in my family who have gotten pregnant have had hyperemesis gravidarum, every single one) but I may get lucky and take after my dad's side of the family where the women didn't get sick. Today I am 4 weeks 3 days and according to my mom and sister, the nausea shouldn't hit me until 6 weeks. So I'm enjoying this time of feeling relatively normal as much as I can!
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First timer!
By alexism4 » Posted Jun. 26, 2017 4:10pm - 246 views - 1 comment
After 4 months TTC, I'm finally pregnant! I was so scared that I wasn't ovulating when we started because I could never get a positive ovulation test. 3 months went by with no success. I finally started tracking my BBT and got a temp spike that confirmed ovulation. We'd happened to BD the day before the spike, meaning our timing was unintentionally perfect. And we were only able to do it once before ovulation, so I feel even more lucky that we were successful.
The funny thing is, right when we were finished, I just knew we had conceived. It was such a strange feeling, but I just KNEW that we had made a baby. I said as much to DH and he agreed with me, he felt it too. So I went in to the TWW knowing I would get a positive at the end, yet afraid of being wrong. I told myself I could not test until 14dpo no matter how badly I wanted to; I had to wait the full two weeks.
The morning of 12dpo, I woke up before my alarm because my breasts were so sore. I'd been having sore breasts since 5dpo but didn't want to think it was more than just PMS, so I didn't put much store into it. But that morning was definitely different, so I knew I had to take a test. Imagine my shock when the faintest second pink line showed up on my internet cheapie test. It was so faint I wasn't quite sure it was there, but the longer I looked, the more obvious it was. I immediately showed my husband, and he couldn't see it, but he believed me. He had known all along I was pregnant. I decided to take a FRER the next morning. I figured that if an internet cheapie could pick it up, then a FRER would give me a clearer answer.
But it was negative. I looked and squinted and pored over it but I couldn't see a definite line. I thought I saw the faintest of faint lines, but I couldn't be sure, so I considered it negative. I was completely torn up. The whole day I was depressed and irritable, praying it was just too early and not a chemical pregnancy. The next morning, 14dpo, I took another internet cheapie test and got the clear positive I'd been hoping for. I could confirm that I was pregnant!
DH and I are so excited. We've been married for 3 1/2 years and this is our first child. I'm a little scared about how sick I'll get (all the women in my family who have gotten pregnant have had hyperemesis gravidarum, every single one) but I may get lucky and take after my dad's side of the family where the women didn't get sick. Today I am 4 weeks 3 days and according to my mom and sister, the nausea shouldn't hit me until 6 weeks. So I'm enjoying this time of feeling relatively normal as much as I can!
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 | Comment from Angela18 » Posted Jun. 26, 2017 6:26pm Congrats! Hope you have a H&H 9 months! With my third we swear we felt "lightning" inside when we dtd, lol! And he is quite a rambunctious little man. Good luck to you and enjoy every minute you can of pregnancy! |
