How about the old fashioned way and saying the baby was premature? 
Well, we’re already married:D. And it probably WILL be premature if it follows the norm with the women on my mom’s side of the family, so I’m not sure how much we can get away with!
(Babies in my family arrive fast and they arrive early - so I’m expecting a three-weeks early baby in about four hours from start to finish - and if I don’t get that short labor, I am gonna be PISSED).
Avarie, we’ll have to come back and post our test results! Seriously - I hope it comes up positive for you:).
E.
For myself, approximately a week after conception but before a missed period, I barf. I barfed at any time of day, all day and night, for the first 7 months and the last two months. (I was almost 10 months along with all 4 kids) I am now a pro barfer. Also crashing fatigue.
My oldest baby and her husband are currently trying to make a baby, and my youngest baby is 12, so I enjoy all your stories. Anytime you want to hear about fast labor and delivery, just let me know? After #4 my doc told me to be careful as I was apt to have the baby just drop out while I was grocery shopping!
Short labor is cool. My daughter was four hours from cervadil insertion to her first cry. She was ten days late but I forgave her because the labor was so easy. I didn’t even have an epidural because the labor pains seemed no greater to me than menstrual cramps. She was born in the morning. I spent the rest of the day joyously happy because my labor experience was not the horror story that everyone had led me to believe.
Just be warned. If a pleasant labor experience happens to you do not tell other women, especially those who have suffered through thirty hours of back labor that culminated in a c-section.
Right now you can count me as a member of the we might be pregnant club.
I am currently trying for our second child. My temps rose on Saturday so I am fairly sure I ovulated on Friday. This is good because we had sex on Thursday night. My poor husband was not feeling well but the ovulation prediction kit was positive that morning so I knew it was that evening or never. He sat back and let me do all the work.
First baby my temps went high and stayed high and 2 weeks after ovulation I tested and got a positive. Our first month trying.
Second baby (who is sitting on my lap as I type) I wasn’t temping yet - we were waiting one month for the hormones to clear out of my system and were planning to actually try the following month. Turns out we were having reckless baby-making-sex after all. I was maybe a day late and had a few tests floating around so tested. Didn’t think I could really be pregnant that quick again so had a beer in my hand as I watched the lines appear…and I’ll be dammed if I didn’t finish that beer as I walked out to the garage to tell my husband the news.
Hope you get the results you want.
Twiddle
Just have to say, it ain’t that bad. Been there, done that, twice, and it’s not as bad as it seems. (#1 was 16 hours, #2 was 19 hours) Most of it is no big deal. Sometimes, the last hour sucks. My last one, I spent the day doing embroidery in my comfy hospital bed while my SO put up the Christmas lights at the house.
Well, Day Five of the High Temps - it’s only 97.61, but since my typical waking temp is between 96.8 and 97.1, this is a switch.
Ummm…yeah. Now I’m really starting to wonder.
E.
Hm… well, I’ve never been pregnant but I have some stories to share.
My mother was infertile. Promise. She was told so by several of the most prestigious ob/gyn in the country. 4 years married, 4 years trying, no luck, doctors said she just couldn’t. Then an uncle of Dad’s (who was a GP) sent her to her mother’s for two months rest, which also meant that Dad’s little fishies would not get any swimming done but of course Uncle didn’t mention any of this. So they meet after two months apart, spend one night together, do like married people do, and then don’t see each other for 3 more weeks. By this time she’s late with her period but she’d always been irregular (I’m “on the clock”, thanks God); the sight of a fried egg made her dash for the john at lightspeed. The other vacationers in their hotel were all convinced Mom and Dad would graduate from “newlywed” to “Mom and Dad” soon, but they knew they couldn’t be, right? Right. Once she’d missed 3 periods, she went to the ob/gyn, who examined her, found a lump, declared it a tumor and said he’d have to scrape it off. The nurse convinced him to wait until the next day and run a test meanwhile. Next day, she goes in and the doctor says the frog said yes, but he still isn’t convinced. Mom didn’t really believe it herself until one month later, when they went to the circus and the lump that’s now writing this kicked noticeably for the first time 
So at home we say that I’m the first known case of a tumor that’s a circus aficionado.
By the time she got pregnant with my bros (both younger than me) HPTs were already available, so when she was over 2 weeks late she took one and it said yes.
The parents and aunt/uncle of a friend of mine got married together. The mother found out she was pregnant two days after her sister had announced her own pregnancy. So the first sister delivers, the still-pregnant-one goes to visit her at the hospital, starts feeling dizzy, the one that’s already delivered rings the nurse. By the time she got there, the now-aunt was holding a baby girl and saying “uh, what do I do now?” Good thing the second bed in the room was free!
And no, the nurse didn’t take an inordinate amount of time, the baby just was in a hurry.
I had sore boobs, bloating, fatigue – I thought I was just having really bad PMS. I’d only been off the Pill for 2 months, so I wasn’t really expecting to be pregnant, and my cycle hadn’t really settled down, so I wasn’t really even sure that my period was due. It had been 28 days since my last period, so I figured, “I’ll do the test, it’ll be negative, and then I’ll stop stressing about being pregnant and my period will come.” Hubby was still asleep when the stick turned blue. I didn’t wake him. I waited thirty minutes (after he had gone to work) and did another HPT. The stick turned blue again. I still didn’t believe it. So I called my PMD and had the bloodwork drawn, and they graciously put a rush on it and called me with results that afternoon. Yep, positive. I finally told hubby that night when he came home from work.
Both times, skipped period.
Good luck!
For some undiagnosed reason, after I was involved in a pretty bad car accident in high school, my period started and didn’t stop for a month and a half. After several medications didn’t work, the doctor finally put me on the Pill. It worked like a charm. So I started taking the Pill (although I would be a virgin for another year or so), but I wasn’t really good at remembering to take it, and I kept “breaking through”. So I stopped taking the Pill because I just couldn’t remember to take it and having what seemed like 40 mini-periods during a two-month span of time was really annoying.
After I went off the Pill and had the requisite period from doing that, I could go six months or longer before I would have another one. Then, it got to where I could go a year or longer before I would have a period. I figured that I wasn’t ovulating because I didn’t even get any symptoms such as bloating or irritability that usually accompanied my Pill-induced periods. I thought that a lack of symptoms meant a lack of hormonal changes. Silly me!
So fast-forward five years or so after high school, one day I start feeling that little bubbly sensation in my belly that feels like gas. I thought I had gas! Turns out, I was being kicked by a five-month-old fetus!! So my unborn son told me I was pregnant.
Incidentally, I no longer make fun of those girls on talk shows who didn’t know they were pregnant until they went into labor…
Well, I didn’t think I might be pregnant when my elevated, post -ovulation temps jumped up another notch after 4 days. I did think, “oh, that’s funny, that looks like the classic pregnant tri-phasic temperatures”. Put me in the “we weren’t really trying, but we were going to start in a few months” club
When I got to day 11 of high temps I thought…“oh” because I have this absurdly short post-luteal phase that should interfere w/me staying pregnant but never has (it’s so nice to know somebody understands me when I talk like that!)
After 13 days I was pretty damn sure, though no other symptoms. I didn’t take the HPT till 18 days of elevated temps, but it was a done deal by then. And if I needed more confirmation the pipes under the sink, the AC, the dryer, and the aquarium broke. Around here this is know as Pregnancy-Induced-Appliance-Meltdown and is as accurate as anything EPT has put on the market.
My actual symptoms didn’t reall kick in till I was 4 weeks pregnant (by which I mean I had been pregnant for 4 weeks. I make this distinction because the doctor types would say I was 6 weeks pregnant, counting the two weeks BEFORE my ovulation, which strikes me as bizarre).
These symptoms were and are: Crashing fatigue, gasiness, nausea, cravings for Jersey Mikes Club Supreme (number 9).
Congratulations if you’re pregnant! Parenthood is fun!
carlotta
6 weeks pregnant (by which I mean I’ve been pregnant for 6 weeks)
Elza, I was in a very similar position to you. I went off the pill, intending to try to get pregnant in a few months, then I started having symptoms and I was starting to really get the feeling I was pregnant. I started reading about symptoms and I had a bunch of them. Nope, a few weeks later, I got my period. I wasn’t temping though, so that may be a more sure sign. I think for me it was just my body’s hormones adjusting to going off the pill. I wasn’t used to having ovulation symptoms or PMS at all and I mistook those symptoms for early pregnancy ones (they are they same, I swear! Look up every symptoms and you will see it under PMS and early pregnancy. Frustrating 
)
Fast forward a few months, now we are actively trying. This time I am sure! I am dizzy, tired, etc. I start buying pregnancy tests. Negative, negative, negative. I am thinking I am just testing too early, sure that I know my body and that I am pregnant. Nope again, my period comes one day late.
Next month we don’t time things right, I am sure I am not pregnant. No signs, I am not even really hoping this month and already planning next month, so sure am I that there is nothing happening. Just to make sure I take a test, and it’s negative. A few days go by…hmmm. Another test shows the faintest of faint lines, as if taunting me. I take another test, a line, slightly darker appears. Shows what I know! Apparently for me the sign that I am pregnant is that there is no sign. (Until about 6 weeks, then everything hits at once!)
Here’s hoping you get the results you want, although like you said I am sure your husband will come around after the initial suprise if you turn out to be pregnant. A few months give or take is nothing in the long run, especially if you have decided that you do want children soon.
Have fun the next few weeks and try not to obsess too much (yes, I give advice that I cannot follow.) And remember that testing too early can give you a false negative, but if you see that positive then you should call your OB-GYN for your appointment
Damn you! I’ve noticed the word inescapable at least twice since last night!
Thanks for the info - I was a little surprised at the stuff my body is capable of producing now that I’m off the pill. Ick. Oh, well - at least that (hopefully) means I’m ovulating. I guess I’ll find out next period (my doctor’s going to give me a blood test to make sure I’m ovulating).
Well, God only knows what the hell my reproductive organs are doing. I was down to 98.1 on Saturday, then 98.5 and 98.7. Today, I plummeted down to 97.9. I took my temp three times to make sure it was right. WTF?? Am I ovulating twice?!?
Maybe it’s an implantation dip? (Okay, I might be pulling that out of my ass).
I have no idea. Sorry. Then again, I’m beginning to wonder if I’m just getting sick and that’s making my temps go crazy - I’m so tired right now, and I’ve had to pee all day - so I’m wondering if I’m getting another UTI, since I really think it’s too early for symptoms to show up. It’s probably me getting sick, not getting pregnant.
E.
Slow down, find your baseline and exclude any outliers. When were you expecting to ovulate? How many days has your temp stayed high?
It’s most likely that you’re simply not pregnant. This could be because you fertilized (and so the temp stayed high) but implantation did not occur (so now it’s falling and you’ll bleed tomorrow) or it could be you had a very, very quiet, asymptomatic bug that gave you an ever-so-slightly elevated temp for a few days.
Elza, try not to think about it too much, sweetie. (I know, I know…pink elephants). The symptoms you describe are both those of a UTI or slight virus or pregnancy. Iffen you’re pregnant, you’re pregnant, but you won’t be able to tell for a few more days. Iffen you’re sick, you’re sick, and there’s nothin’ you can do about it now. Drink some cranberry juice, gobble some fresh blueberries (both good home remedies for UTIs or good sources of nutrients for a newly pregnant mom) and just try to relax.
Actually, now I’m just pissed if I’m sick (and I’m running a slight fever, so sick it is) - although it’s a slow week for work (I write resumes from home), so I guess if I’m going to get sick, this is a good week to do it, eh?
It is kind of frustrating right now, you know? They need to invent a ‘one day pregnancy test’ :D. Honestly, until I started reading TCOYF, I had absolutely no idea that all of this stuff occurred for pregnancy - and now, I’m shocked that ANYONE gets pregnant with everything that has to occur. I’m actually kind of hoping I am - but I won’t be disappointed if I’m not - it’s less than 2 months to go now before we start trying for real, so I can hold off until then.
Right now, I just feel like falling asleep and waking up in three or four days. I think it’s gonna be an early night at Elza’s house. The cats’ll be happy - they love it when we go to bed early.
Mmmm…blueberries. Fresh blueberries in cream sounds really delish right now.
E.
We had only just decided to start trying and BAM! It happened like snap.
Before it connected in my brain that it could be possible that easy, the signs for me were pretty simple:
The absolutely worse case of cramps I’ve ever had ( this would be the implantation part, I think Hey, I went to catholic school. for about 4 or 5 hours one night. They were so bad that I nearly had my husband take me to the hospital…and I have an exceptionally high tolerance of pain. I talked through labor pains all the way to the end and made jokes. Before & after the epidural.
Pretty much I was congested without any nasal drippage at all for the entire 10 months. My sinuses are farked up now beyond belief because of pregnancy and I have the amazing power to predict the weather 12-16 hours ahead. But, the fact I have two incredibly wonderful and manipulative children that I can mold for my own evil porpoises makes it all the worth while.
It took me until I missed my period of thinking…" this is the strangest cold I’ve ever had." It is a very rare symptom, one that my OB was like : " Huh…We are stumped."
And my feet hurt all the time. All the fcuking time.
Other than those two complaints - and they are very minor indeed - I had a very smooth and easy pregnancy and *liked labor.It is very empowering and I would do it again in a heartbeat. [/size]
My breathing & feet problems went away the day after delivery. It was so wonderful to inhale completely through my nostrils …
I never puked.
And both my pregnancies were the same -the second one was much better and really, I didn’t complain about the first at all. - and labor was a fucking breeze the second time around. ( I had an epidural and highly recommend it.)
Good luck!
If you are pregnant, say goodbye to any coherency and sentance structure for years…You are warned.
Okay, I thought I should post an update to this. I’m POSITIVE that I’m not pregnant - I’m starting to think that my high temps were actually due to being ill.
I’m totally fine with this, because after an appointment with my new OB-GYN, I am under doctor’s orders to attempt to get pregnant as soon as possible :D. He doesn’t want to treat my endo right now because of wanting to get pregnant, and he said that there’s no sense in us waiting two months since it’s going to take awhile with my condition. SO…we discussed it, and as of today, we are officially beginning our TTC journey for real (okay, technically it starts in two weeks when I ovulate, hopefully, but we’re making today our ‘start’ date).
My doc gave me a course of Progesterine to start my period and get my cycles back to normal, which just scared the ever-living crap out of me (major dizzy spell. MAJOR dizzy spell. Heavy arms and legs. I got so scared that I called the pharmacist who assured me that it was normal). I’m still charting, and we’re looking forward to a bit of fun;).
Avarie, it looks like we’re timing this about the same!
E.