to think I might be pregnant since DH had a vasectomy (cauterisation) 8 years ago?

[ProdigalMNer]

Sadly I think it is far more likely to be perimenopause... but I think I prefer the alternative. I am 37.

op for my own sanity i hope you are not, it would make me panick about DH vascetomy

this story left me speachless

www.talktothepress.co.uk/blog/i-got-pregnant-twice-following-my-husbands-vasectomy

www.talktothepress.co.uk/blog/i-got-pregnant-twice-following-my-husbands-vasectomy

Interesting thread. Have you POAS yet op?

Sorry, only just seen these messages.

I still think Dozer's explanation is probably the best one ( plus I really HATE the thought of the perimenopause thing sorry, I may be repeating myself there!

I am still experiencing the very sore boobs but the funny taste is very sporadic and the nausea is almost non-existent now.. I am not allowing myself to believe I'm pregnant anymore.

I think it might be just some hormonal glitch ( although that article makes for fascinating reading!!) and I am refusing to give in to the urge to POAS until 'AF' is at least late. Not least because I have a very close friend going through a cycle of IVF at the moment and if I were to find out I was and she wasn't it would kill me and her too no doubt) . DH thinks my body's responding in optimistic empathy with her!

When are you due then?

Have been in a similar position to you re friends trying to conceive and getting pregnant unexpectedly.

Not for another week 5inthebed hence the fact I think it must just be a hormonal glitch! Smiling at your name since it seems v appropriate to this thread...!

That would be really tricky with your friend, but I'm sure she would understand at least and although it might make her jealous/sad, at least she wouldn't be angry. It's not as though you thought, "Ooh, my friend is having IVF, I'm gonna go and conceive naturally and against the odds to rub it in her face!"

Argh, I was really hoping you were pregnant, now I've got mixed emotions!

I know you're absolutely right Babylann, she's a very good friend and a very long-standing one, but I would feel so if it worked out that way.

Anyway, how are you ? Did you POAS yet? Those cheapies must have arrived by now? !

I have new symptoms to add to the list now (God, I sound like a right hypochondriac !) that I didn't experience in any prev. PGs... - a horrible stingy, tingling in my legs (paresthesia?) as I'm trying to get to sleep at night, have googled researched it and it's yet another possible symptom of menopause . Nausea and mood have both been crap today too, and it's not like I even had time to think about it as I've been v busy at work.

If I can get an apptmt I might actually go and visit the Dr once I know that I'm def not PG...

I had my first baby, accidentally, at 37

Did you ever think for a moment it was early menopuase MI?

(Not sure whether it's recent enough for congratulations but have mine anyway ! Though I have a sneaking suspicion I remember you from a previous MNlife and I think it might not have been so recent )

I did indeed, thanks for asking. BFP!

That sounds worrying, but it's probably nothing. Sometimes random symptoms collide at the same time to make you think something is happening which isn't. Keep reminding yourself you're too young!

Woohoo!!

Thank you. I am! Really, really happy!

Now to tackle the challenges ahead: tell my mum {arggghh}, think of a boy's name just in case (already had a girl name picked out for a while!), and avoid SPD at all cost!

In Take a Break magazine (respected medical journal) a week or two ago, there was a story about a woman who got pregnant even though her husband had a vasectomy a few years before. They tested his sperm and he had a sperm count of zero and then they did a paternity test and found that he was indeed the father. They think he had somehow become fertile for a short while and then gone back to being infertile again.

Hope you manage to avoid SPD Babylann. Are you not expecting a good reaction from your Mum? (Sorry if I ought to know but I am very much 'out of the MN loop' )
Loads of fun to be had with the name choosing can I help ?

CrumpettyTree, I really sympathised with the woman in that story when someone linked me to that highly esteemed article , I can't even begin to imagine what gossipmongers who know about DHs vasectomy would make of it all if I was PG ...

It's not so much that she won't be happy, just that she'll be very worried. In her opinion I "almost died" last time (mild pre-eclampsia and EMCS). I didn't almost die, I wasn't even ill enough for them to induce me, which is why I went 2 weeks overdue and still ended up having a CS after 3 days of labour

It's not me that's the problem, it's DP! I haven't been able to suggest a single boys name that he likes. He's VERY fussy. Driving me mad!

He does post on MN though, so maybe I can trap him into a thread with me and lots of women who'll beat him up until he accepts a boy must have a name.

CONGRATULATIONS!

(please tell us your girls name!)

Well I'll keep my eyes peeled for your Baby-names thread then Babylann, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that you stay in good health for the duration!
xx

Thank you :)

We had decided on Elise, but it's subject to change! We had a couple of names at the start of pg with DD that changed a few weeks in.

I like Elise muchly. My favourite boys' name is taken already by ds. If (in the extraordinarily unlikely event) I were to have a second child and it was a boy, I'd have to name him Littlest Jenai'sSon'sName

Technically we could use the name we had prepared for DD if she was a boy, but I don't know, I feel like we've used that name, even though we haven't, if you know what I mean? Like it belongs to a different baby that we never had.

Sounds daft really but I can't explain it

at "highly esteemed article"

AF just arrived a week early and oddly.

Now I have absolutely no clue what to think..

I've been through similar stuff to this recently and sympathise. I'm 35 and really would like a 3rd dc. Imagine my disappointment recently when i had a random 38 day cycle (usually dead on 28). Unfortunately dh is dead against having another. I guess the end of childbearing is hard however it happens to you.

Last time I had an odd, early "period" I turned out to be pg. Implantation bleed, apparently.