If you are charting and temping, a good number of women have a temperature surge right at ovulation, and fail to have a temperature drop should fertilization occur.
Shortly after that, you can take a pregnancy test.
Earliest I’ve heard of a positive test is 10 days past ovulation - mine came 12 days past ovulation.
Ah, thanks, Caricci and Bibliocat. I’ll feel okay about knitting while I study, then. Or studying while I knit would be more apt, I suppose. And I think Knitty von Knitstein is a beautiful name. So dignified. 
I secretly covet Minnie Purl’s username, and if the board allowed nameswaps, I’d be willing to throw in a pair of Turbo needles to sweeten the deal.
To make this not a complete highjack: . . . beans? That’s not right, man. According to DiscoveryHealth, 15 to 20% of pregnancies can end in spontaneous abortion, half of those before the woman even knows she’s pregnant. Most of those are because of genetic errors. So, save your adoration for the babies that did make it or will make it, not on your beans.
I feel compelled to make a signature in memory of every single one of the eggs I’ve lost through menstruation. I think I shall call them . . . cyto-angels.
Something like this, perhaps? ^o^
I feel the same way— but the really barf-inducing thing is when one of them calls herself a “Mommy”. “Mom” almost sounds good in comparison. Almost. Also “Bratley/Snotlee is my world!” Ugh.
Heh, It’s funny 'cause I got it.
Yeah, I did years of those charts. They were pretty freaking useless for me - up and down like a roller coaster all month - but still, I think if I had a positive test and then basically turned out not to be pregnant, which is what this situation is, I would just consider it a false positive rather than refer to beans .
Okay, here’s something horrifying that these women on parenting boards do, too:
They list the kids names, birthdates and afflictions as their signatures!
It might be something like this:
SNOTLEEBRATLEIGHSMOM77, Homeschooling Christian mom to Snotlee Wayne(6/2/99, Aspergers, Cleft Palate) and Bratleigh Paige (12/25/00, Peanut Allergies, Exzema) and loving wife to Wayne.
Could you puke ?
She forgot her husband’s afflictions.
) and loving wife to Wayne. (small penis, impotence, 5 years in state for statuatory)
Sorry.
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That’s the point. It’s not a false positive. Your body produced the hormones because the zygote zippered itself in, however briefly, and then broke loose.
I caught the second egg on the second egged cycle and it stuck. Whoohoo. Out of probably six ovulations in three years - I know I’m extraordinarily lucky. I’ve got friends who haven’t ovulated in years at all. Or those who do ovulate month after month and get nothing.
Sometimes those little bean thoughts are all that get some of them through to the next cycle.
Go back and read these archives. Just because the zygoo burrowed its way in doesn’t mean jack, either.
I’m sorry, but I’ve been a diabetic since I was four, and if my mother had worn my diabetes as a badge of motherly honor, there’s no way I would have been able to accept it as anything other than a huge, fucking obstacle in my path. It can be, but my mother didn’t let it be one. It was (and is) something that had to be lived with, but not the key factor in forming my identity. Diabetes is a pain in the ass and something I’ll always have to watch out for, but there’s much more to me than finger pokes, injections, and peeing on sticks.
These women will not do their children any favors if they focus that much on their afflictions. Why can’t they just put their children’s accomplishments in their sigs? “Snotlee Wayne – 5 years old and can swear like a sailor.” There has to be more to their children than lactose intolerance and hayfever.
Good Lord. Stop making me laugh out loud.
I am the person who first mentioned beans here.
Mynn, believe it or not, I think I know where you’re coming from. I have had IVF and also a chemical pregnancy (confirmed by blood test, but didn’t make it to a heartbeat by ultrasound). I did mourn my loss.
That said, what I was referring to in my beans post were people who are using IVF and listing the embryos in the dish in their sigs forever after (not short-term), alongside their living children. I personally find this troubling for two reasons. First, it makes me wonder if they really are suited to IVF at that point in time. Some people get swept away on the “if there is a medical solution, it should be pursued, no matter what” track. Some people see all these embryos as babies (seemingly more common in people who memorialize them), and if it’s actively causing them grief, I have to wonder if anyone’s ever sat down and discussed their fertility options from any standpoint beyond the purely medical. To deny that any IVF procedure will most probably involve the loss of embryos is avoiding reality. The second reason is that it reflects a perception that I find troubling – the idea that IVF alone causes embryo loss. The truth, as cited above in this thread, is that many, many natural pregnancies fail every day when an embryo does not make it to a clinically detectable stage. The difference is that the vast majority of these losses are undetected. But this fact doesn’t stop anti-IVF folks who want to portray the procedure as “evil” and pray for the souls of all the lost embryos.
That wasn’t the most gracefully written passage, but I hope you can understand where I’m coming from on this.
Now, back to the other parts of sigs…
You are soo right about the “loving wife” part! I would love to once see, “nagging and pissed wife to XXXXX, but currently considering an affair”.
Nah, I’m not proud of spawning. I am proud of parenting though, and it seems the fewer and fewer people can do it well.
And actually, I am EJ’s nagging, bitchy wife, although I would never consider cheating! 
And my favorite annoying bumoer sticker around here says “My kid tattooed your honor student.”
I thought you meant embryos that were inserted in the uterus but didn’t take. (I don’t know a whole lot about IVF, so feel to correct me). Do you mean when the doctor puts in 5 or 6 fertilzed eggs, but only 1 or 2 implant and are carried to term and delivered? The others are just sort of “lost”?
Right?
Still, it’s sick. Or pathetic. Or something. :rolleyes:
Well, yes, as a matter of fact, you, Angua and Ridcully really cheeze me off!
Well, when you factor in, Lily…, the cost of those beans … I’d probably keep track, too.
I was lucky enough to not have to go as far as IVF - it took me a long time to accept Clomid as well (and from what my body has been doing post-partum I’m starting to think I never needed Clomid, I’m a fall-ovulator). But if it had gotten to the point where I was at IVF I might have actually talked myself into it.
And for some it doesn’t matter if you lost your magic beans at 8 hours, 8 weeks, or 8 months (which I’ve seen happen but not from IVF - latest IVF failure I’ve seen was just shy of 5 months, twins) - it’s hard to forget, even decades on.
When I was in the midst of trying to stir up Wolfie … I had all my stats in my signature. It served me then, though it’s not relevant now. If I were still active on parenting and fertility boards - I might still have stats there - it’s like searching for people with similar interests, is all.
I guess they could change their name to something like “Mom of 5” or “[insertfirstnamehere]Mom6” or whatever. I’ve seen that on certain boards, myself.
I like one I saw on half dot com, I think, who called herself Mommyoftwomonsters.
Hey, it least it wasn’t cutesy.
One minor point in the defense of all those “BlanksMom” usernames on parenting boards: ISTM that since they’re mostly talking about little Blank (that’s what they’re there for, after all), it’s somewhat helpful to pick a username that gives the other posters only one name to remember instead of two.
That way, another poster who wants to offer a comment about little Blank’s childing experiences* can just write “I have to disagree with BlanksMom’s policy of putting laudanum in Blank’s bottle” or whatever. Easier than trying to remember that Blank’s mother’s actual username is ViggoMortensensLoveSlave or MadDogCyberDemocrat or whatever unrelated identifying characteristic she happened to pick.
*Well shoot, if what BlanksMom is doing is “parenting”, then what little Blank is doing is “childing”, right?