Hard hat fastened! Didn't know where to put this as the conception board didn't feel appropriate. Mumsnet HQ, please move this to the right place!
Am 41 with young children. I don't take hormonal conception so we use condoms. Generally pretty regular 29 day cycles, with the odd blip the past few months (35 day cycle one month, 14 day (!) cycle the next.
Around day 16, I got Ewcm. Bit late but nothing major. Assumed ovulation was around then. Last night was day 26 and we had unprotected sex for the first time ever, outside of TTC.
Today I started getting that pinching feeling in my left side that I often get when I'm ovulating. I must have read far too much 'Just Seveneteen' in my teens as now I'm wondering could I actually have ovulated as late as day 26, in what is normally a 30ish day cycle?
We are finished having kids, but then I started getting a little bit excited and thinking about names, how I'll have to ask my neighbour for the Next2Me crib I gave her when my last baby was finished with it, do I still have the number of the lactation consultant I used it a few years ago?, we need a new car, we have to move house, when will my maternity leave start? ill need new maternity clothes, how will I tell my parents? Will I quit work? and other examples of utter absurdity.
So, my 2 questions are:
- What are the chances I could be pregnant from sex on day 26?
- Does anyone else have these fantasy pregnancies when they really know there won't be any more babies, but get sucked into a make- believe bubble of pregnancy loveliness even though they don't realllllly want another?
And breathe!