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that'd wind me right up it's just trivial enough to really bug the hell out of you, IYSWIM....like a paper cut or a gnat really annoys me when people don't think properly!
She's wrong. Are you TTC? That would wind me right up if she was smuggly telling me that I was testing too early. Although I realise that it's not the end of the world really...
Yes I am TTC and am also thinking I will probably get my period while I am on holiday AND while I am at Glastonbury as I have a short cycle and will get my period twice in one month.
My only hope is that because I was 2 days 'late' this month (ie my cycle was 26 days) I might be late next month. Only my work mate is telling me I am not actually 'late' at all. Meh!
I've read that you're not late until after the last day of your longest cycle, so she could kind of be right, but if it's regularly 24 days and only once was 28 then I'd count that as a blip.
It's none of her flaming business (or mine ) though!
Maybe there is a Government dictated statutory menstrual cycle that we are all supposed to have been issued with. I do hope you aren't using sanitary products until the allotted 28 days (sorry - gross) but what an idiot this woman is.
When trying to explain that I am probably going to have my period on Holiday unless I am late she asked 'is that 28 days though because you won't be late until you get to 28 days'
no no no no no... I have tried to explain with a regular 24 day cycle I will be late if I get my period after 25 or 26 days and so on, but no - apparently I won't be, I will only be late once I get past 28 day!
No one but my husband knows that we are trying to concieve.
I'm surprised that you tell your friends when your period is due. In someways I think your friend is well meaning if she is telling you wait a bit before pregnancy testing kits.
Pregnancy testing kits aren't cheap and if you are pregnant it will not harm your baby to wait until you are at least a week over your due date.
Howver I can understand you feeling desperate and frustrated to know if you are actually pregnant
late is more than 14 days after you ovulated. If you have a cycle which is normally 24 and therefore you ovulate on day 10 then after day 24 you are late. However if its not unusual for you to have the occasional longer cycle meaning you sometimes ovulate on Days 10-16 then its quite possible that you aren't late but that you just ovulated later then nomal.
There's really no way of knowing until you are testing when you ovulate.
They may not be cheap, but doctors use the Pound Shop ones.
My cycle used to be that I knew 11:30pm on the 4th Sunday I needed to go to the toilet! Since Tink they're totally irregular, but she's still BF. Late is later than what's normal for you, it's not based on anyone else's cycle.
btw - I am TTC but we were talking today about getting my period on Holiday not me trying to Conceive, though she does know I want children. It's pretty hard to keep it a secret as she knows I have split with a long term partner and that I have a new man with whom I want children and that at 38 I need to get my skates on.
Her husband had fertility problems and as a result they had only one child (After a miscarriage) so we've talked a lot about conception over the years, even before I was trying.
"late is more than 14 days after you ovulated. If you have a cycle which is normally 24 and therefore you ovulate on day 10 then after day 24 you are late."
unless you ovulate on day 15 and have a luteal phase of 10 days which is the case with me. Not everyone has a 14 day luteal phase.
Sounds like a daft and petty thing to get annoyed at really. If she wants to be a prat, doesn't mean you have to get the strop on over it - after all, it's hardly a major problem is it.
"Why are you even discussing your cycle with someone who doesn't sound very sympathetic or knowledgable?"
well, I have worked with her for 9 years almost, and while there are quite a few things we have differing attitudes to we get on well and we have never properly fallen out. I just found this particular thing frustrating because I know she is wrong and it doesn't matter how many times I explain it to her she still thinks she's right.
We have very similar cycles and so often would have our periods at the same time so it would always come up in conversation.
AIBU to discuss my periods with people I have known for years?
We were discussing it within discussion about my impending holiday. I will make every attempt to not do so in future, and certainly not to post about it here to make things easier for you NAB.
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