Just wanted to make sure, implantation spotting is literally a few drops, and doesn’t look like a light period?
And when you Doper women were pregnant, you didn’t bleed like it was a normal period, right? Your monthly bleeding stopped occuring?
Now I’m all scared since you guys describe things that have happened to me on and off for the past 10 years. How can I tell the difference between stress-related changes in my period or whether or not I’m pregnant!?
Then again, if I can conceive while I’m on the pill and he uses condoms, then I guess it was meant to be!
How did I know? I didn’t, my Mom did. Or at least she knew before I did.
At the time my period was irregular and I’d lost track completely of when it would come. I basically got hungry all the time, wanted to drink lots of orange juice, my breasts got real tender and I felt like crap all the time and wanted to sleep. That wasn’t helped at all by my working full time night shift and taking morning classes Mon-Fri.
I was about 2 months along before I even thought of when my last period was. I thought I’d just missed because of all the stress I was under, so I went off to the drugstore and got a home test. I then went to the doctor and tried to get them to give me a test to double check, I went three times before they sent me for one (the first two times they insisted I was just sick, here’s a script go home and you’ll be better in a week).
Once I got past the first trimester everything was good, except for the wanting to faint at the drop of a hat thing.
I don’t know if I got racoon butt, I sincerely hope not.
Wow, even worse than knowing you might get raccoon butt is finding out that you might have had raccoon butt (not once but twice!) and never known it.
With my first pregnancy, I was exhausted and starving. Usually I was a light luncher, or even a lunch-skipper, and one day I ate two sandwiches for lunch. Weepy. Falling asleep at 7pm, after 20 years of insomnia.
Second time, there was just one symptom, really. Spoiler for bodily fluid TMI. My urine smelled really, really strong and kind of ‘funky’. Like apraragus pee to the nth degree.
Both times, I could look back and see that, around the time of implantation, I got sick. Like, intestinal flu sick, but just for a few hours.
This is kind of gross, but before I found out I was pregnant, I experienced this weird feeling of heaviness in my crotch area. It felt kind of like having to pee, but it wasn’t related at all to my bladder. Very strange. Later, my midwife told me that it was from blood going to the uterus etc.
I’ve never been pregnant, but my best friend has kids. She told me she knew she was pregnant because she could smell if someone had been drinking (alcohol) from across the yard. The very smell of alcohol made her sick.
The first time, I knew because my period was late. I told CubHubby when I was two days late. I didn’t take the test for almost 8 weeks, and that was just for the referral to an OB. For some reason they wanted proof before I could be referred to a civilian OB.
The second time, I knew while it was happening. I can’t explain it, I just had a thought wander through my mind that said “this is it. You’ll be pregnant today.” I was. The fact that any slightly off smells made me puke was just confirmation. Once again, I didn’t take the test for several weeks, as I didn’t need convincing.
I have kind of an oogey question: my husband and I are trying to get pregnant, and we’re trying to do so without formally tracking anything. But I have been checking for the mysterious “other signs” indicated on most pregnancy web sites, particularly the, er, juices that are supposed to eke out of you while you’re ovulating (usually described as having an egg-white consistency). Did any of you ladies find that, after you went off your birth control, there was a whole hell of a lot more stuff coming out of you than when you were on birth control (but before you were pregnant)? I’ve been on some form of hormonal birth control since I was in my teens, and now I’m 29 - I never paid attention to the signs of ovulation when I was younger, so I’m a little alarmed by the increase in bodily fluids.
My husband told me. I didn’t believe him but he took me to the doctor anyway. And he was right. I still had trouble really believing it until I got off the train on my way to work, barfed for no particular reason whatsoever, and continued on my way to work. Did that every work day for two months.
My then boyfriend (soon to be husband) and I had been less than careful one night, so I was already concerned. A few days later I thought I started my period, so I was relieved (yay) and then it went away (noooo). Also, my boobs were really tender and I felt bloated.
Back then I worked at a Hallmark store in a strip mall which was right next to a drug store, so while I was on my break one night I ran over there to buy sodas for my co-worker and myself and I picked up a cheap test on a whim. I took it while I was at work, and got the shock of my life. Once we got used to the idea, we were really excited and happy, but those first few days were kind of a scary blur.
Oh, and I did get raccoon butt, my nipples turned brown, I got a stripe down my belly, and my nose got wider for some reason. Seriously, you can see it in any picture taken taken during the last few months of my pregnancy. It is even that way on my driver’s license, so I get a little reminder everytime I look at it.
Yep, I found the same thing. Don’t know why. Maybe “nature” assumes we’ll procreate like rabbits until we’re getting “old” (fertility-wise) and nearing 30 and then we need the extra help the copious cervical fluid provides. OTW, maybe it’s the age thing, and not so much the going off birth control thing.
Also, if you were on birth control as a young teen, you just may not have been ovulating before then, at least not regularly. Girls often don’t regularly ovulate until months or even years after menarche. Young girls are also not well-known for intimate knowledge of their own bodies.
Finally, you may be noticing more of it because you’re noticing it more, if that makes any sense. Like how you will now see the word “inescapable” four times this week because I just used it and pointed it out. When you’re looking for it, you see it. Perhaps it was there and you were just too busy with little girl, non-fertility related things to notice.
Don’t be alarmed. If it’s not chunky, smelly or otherwise oogey, it’s perfectly normal. [Insert regularly scheduled recommendation for Taking Charge of Your Fertility here.]
Among other symptoms, I noticed that a mole and birthmark on my stomach had got darker. This happens a little when I ovulate, and a lot when I’m pregnant.
I don’t want to worry you, but with my 2nd pregnancy I spotted heavily enough that I wasn’t sure if I was pregnant till my 5th month. This was in 1981. I spotted, felt odd, took a home pregnancy test. Got a false negative. Continued to spot, had nausea all the time. Told my dr. I thought I was pregnant but he refused!!! to test me because of the negative home test. Gave me antibiotics and a decongestant. (which I didn’t ask for, but I was silly in those days and thought that you had to take what the dr. prescribed.) Still sick all day long at the smell of food, in March I finally take myself to an ob/gyn who had been recommended to me and had a test done, sure enough I am pregnant. Baby due in August. She was born with a birth defect which probably didn’t have anything to do with the drugs I took, or the fact that I wasn’t taking the absolute best care of myself, but the thing is I’ll never know, will I? So if you even think you are pregnant please test, and if it’s negative but you still think you are pregnant please test again. By the way, GillianBoardman Oldest Daughter is fine. Getting married this October.
I had three beers one night, over a couple of hours, and the next day I was so dead hung-over, I was still puking at 5PM. The day after that, I said something really snippy to my husband when he woke me up and he commented that I’d been a real bitch for the past few days and I really needed to check my attitude. Did a pregnancy test that afternoon and saw two lines before I’d even finished peeing.
The second time, there was nothing specific, I just had a weird feeling (and my periods were very irregular, so I really wasn’t expecting anything). I was so newly pregnant that only one of five HPTs were positive. The doc confirmed it a couple days later with a blood test.
Forgot to temp this morning since we were out of town, but I’ll do it in the morning and see what they look like. My basal temps are usually REALLY low (like high 96s), so to see them up at 97.6 and 97.7 was a little nuts. It’s the one main thing that tipped me off to the fact that I may have been ovulating.
Of course, now I have like 80 other symptoms to obsess over, thanks to these posts. I’m starting to get a sixth sense that I’m not now…but my sixth sense has been known to be wrong. I’m just going to attempt (ha!) to be patient for another couple of weeks and see what happens.
Well, if this makes you feel better… When I was trying for my first (not so much trying, but letting it happen), we were CERTAIN that I was. Three times. Wrong. Then I quit paying attention, and wham! Preggers! So my sixth sense is completely worthless.
See, we’re not trying yet - :rolleyes: (that’s at me, not at you). This was my bad timing and both of us assuming that I hadn’t ovulated due to the way my system’s been lately. I don’t want to relax and let it happen .
I don’t put much stock in my sixth sense, which makes me nervous because this time, my sixth sense tells me that I’m NOT. So my sixth sense could be totally worthless, too. I hope it’s right this time! Although, if I am now, I’ll get to miss out on that fun 8-month-pregnant during the summertime that some of my friends seem to be having now:D.
My temps climbed high and stayed high. When it was sixteen days past ovulation and my temp that morning was 98.8 I gave in and tested. The test came up positive almost instantaneously.
Before then I noticed no symptoms at all other than the high temps. A week after the test I think it finally sank in for both of us when I began immediately throwing up five seconds after I woke up and started falling asleep at 7 p.m.
Good luck, Elza B. I hope you get the results you want.
If it were up to me and me only, I would want it to be positive. But since my husband’s in on this, too, I’m hoping it’s negative because he really just wants to give it another couple of months and start on our first anniversary. I see his point, but I don’t agree with it - to me, two months is two months if we’re emotionally and financially ready, which we’ve both agreed that we are NOW. But hey, I’m getting better at this whole marriage thing and learning to share, so I’d rather see him happy that I’m not than me happy that I am right now - if that makes sense.
Eh - if I am, I’ll probably jump up and down and scream a lot and be happy. So will he when he’s conscious again;). Although, I don’t think he’s ever going to believe a word I say about TCOYF and FAM being the best natural family planning out there :D.
Elza B, we should start the “I may be pregnant club.” Last month, my cycle was all wonky - temps up and down, period two days late and really short - but I did settle back down at 98.2, which is low for me. Based on the first day of my period, I should ovulate tomorrow. Based on 13 days from day 28, I should have ovulated on Saturday. Sure enough, my temp was down to 98.1. I didn’t think anything of it, because I usually go to 98.0 when I ovulate. But, yesterday I was up to 98.5 and to 98.7 today. Good thing we had sex on Friday morning! I told hubby that he might want to wait a day (get a good crop of 'em ready), but he said that he was not going to have sex on a schedule. I guess he just had good timing!
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