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: C'mon fess up for me, who was absolutely convinced your period was imminent and was actually up the squack?
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I don't get sore boobs pre-period and I don't have them now either. There again I don't remember getting them when I was pg until almost 12 weeks, so that's not really helpful either
Me. I'd had IVF but was absolutely convinced it hadn't worked so the symptoms kind of convinced me too. Anyway, I had sore boobs (got them with every period), mood swings and PMS and stomach cramps and that sort of dull ache you get before period. So, persuaded DH to get the wine out and next morning found out I was pg. Cue panic about the wine for the next 9 months!
I thought period was coming but only because I thought I had missed OV. Being very very tired and having to have afternoon naps was something I had to start doing before I got my BFP.
I'm not ttc but when I got pg with both dc in the few days before af was due I was moody, had stomach cramps and was absolutely positive I was going to get my period. Clearly I know nothing about my own body
Hi ladies, I fear this is giving me false hope! Ive had cramps since Friday but so far nothing Had positive OPK 16 and 17 days ago I can feel my hopes building...am I crazy? Been TTC number 1 for 18 months and so far no luck at all finger's crossed
i was convinced I wasn't pregnant because I was still having periods (albeit quite light ones, which is the norm for me anyway), had the cramps as well to go with them. Found out by accident I was three months pregnant with ds. Don't know what the bleeding was, it happened at the time of my periods so ....
Squack, I forget now, when is your period actually due? I don't know all the chances in odd's, but test the day period is due (cannot believe I have just said that, it is that LL's bad influence again !)
You don't have to get a very faint before a strong BFP for you to be pregnant. The very faint might have shown yesterday for example.
I have about 9 tests (still) lined up upstairs, all in time and date order (how is that?!!) and they go from very dark to fairly faint, back to very dark again, and something I did notice is that the ones I took later in the day were darker than the ones first thing!
Lissie You should be out getting a test yourself young lady <stern look>
"By lissielou on Tue 06-May-08 09:31:44 no! dont test yet, wait for as long as possible unless you have a medical reason to find out asap" Sound familiar?
Just wanted to come on here to tell Squack - we've got a really similar cycle, I think. O around CD18 and have a 10-11 day LP? When I was pregnant, I tested on CD11, the day after my period would've been due according to my previous cycle and got a faint BFP. Took another two days later and it was darker. Fingers crossed for you!!!!
hey great thread! I got a BFN yesterday evening from one of the ebay One Step Pregnancy thingys (bought a pack of 10, just the strip things that you dip in a pot of wee), AF was due sunday and still no signs yet apart from low down tummy ache, moody and water retention.....me and dh convinced tests are dud, and he wants me to go get a shop bought one, but if that neg too I will be gutted.....hanging onto that sliver of hope....
fuck. think i just got a faint line. wasnt expecting anything since only 12dpo, boots own brand and weak afternoon wee, but definately a faint line. still, in my case a line is not a line yet. shall retest on thursday moring.
dont get too excited yet ladies, this is me remember, still if the spotting i had on on sat/sun was implantation then by thurs FMU i should have built up enough hcg. it is still vv faint, so not a bfp yet, more a VPP (very possible positive)
if im only about 4 days gone, is it too early to have cravings? and if so, how come ive just eaten 4 bags of salt and vinegar? lissie it sounds like good news? hugs your way
With DS2 I was sure I wasn't pg, I had told dp to get me a test, was a day or two late, then called him up and said dont bother, I'm going to come on I've got period pains etc. A few days later still not AF so we tested. BFP.
well, i got a bfp on sunday afternoon even though i was convinced that there was no way on earth i could be pregnant, despite the bursting into tears every fifteen minutes or so all day on saturday, the outrageously sore boobs and the exhaustion i'd had since mid-week (i thought it was just terrible pms)... that was on day 11 of an 11 day lp (first response), and i still don't believe it. and am completely freaked out, had a miscarriage in january and am scared shitless it will happen again. i may join the knicker checkers if they'll have me, but not for a few days yet...
thank you, my landlady is a mw and i told her when i did her reflexology treatment, told about spotting over the weekend and she just said "implantation, just the right time an sounds like a classic example"
thats reassured me a bit. im still not pg though. not yet!
thank you, dh is winding out the cotton wool as we speak. period hasnt arrived today either. if i can make it through tomorrow i will be more optimistic.
I was absolutley convinced I was going to come on my period as I didn't exactly plan DD - a very gorgeous surprise! I then did a pg test just to rule it out and got a faint positive, I took the pg test to the doctors I was SO convinced it was wrong!
So hang in there Squack. Fingers crossed for you Lissie and congrats to scared!
well, maybe not so much good news after all. had a small (and i do mean tiny) gush of reddish brown blood, and a few cramps, but high up, from just under my ribs. since then nothing. noblood, no pain/backache/cramps. not holding breath though.
spoken to my mw landlady who said that she wouldnt be too worried, sounds like a continuation of the implantation, cramps are too high to be period or mc and more likely to be tension. but i am to rest as much as possible.
in answer to the question, with DD, i had some spotting the day my period was due, and only bought a test when i was late, to do it, in the safe knowledge that it would be negative or i would have got my period by the time i got home.
Yup - all period imminent symptoms for me, sore boobs, I said to DP it must be just a day or so late as I really feel on its way. Then after a few days of that I thought, OK I got my weeks wrong, due next Tuesday, then by next Wednesday I could bury my head in sand no longer and tested. Oh but for a such an unaware conception now!
I have been knicker-checking since Friday, and I still can't believe there is nothing there everytime I go for a wee (at that is quite a it now!!)
Dh bought a bottle with the shop yesterday and I could've barfed at the thought of it.
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is that?!!) and they go from very dark to fairly faint, back to very dark again, and something I did notice is that the ones I took later in the day were darker than the ones first thing! 
You should be out getting a test yourself young lady <stern look> 
