And hold my hand too!
I'm just about to turn 43 and have 3 children who were conceived by just looking at my husband. The youngest is 5.
So for the past year, my cycles have been getting longer and longer and arrive once every 60 days. We normally use condoms.
About 2 weeks ago after a rare night out with DH, I foolishly informed him that my period was just over so we would 'be ok' (too many cocktails!). Two days later, I was in Tesco when I had terrible cramps and stupidly again thought 'gosh these feel just like ovulation pains. How funny when I'm too old to ovulate.' I remember, as I had to sit down and breathe through it for a few minutes but once it passed, I forgot all about it.
Yesterday, out of the blue, my 10 year old DD told me that she had dreamt I was pregnant and then asked me how does a woman know if she is pregnant. I explained that her period doesn't come and then thought, when is mine due?
I looked on my app, and searched my last cycle. I'd got my dates wrong. My period wasn't just over when my DH and I had sex after our night out, it was CD10 and in retrospect, I think I ovulated two or three days later, totally unexpectedly! In my defence, a lot had been going on at the time and I was all over the place.
So. I could, in theory take a test now, BUT we are on holidays somewhere quite remote and I won't have any opportunity to purchase a pregnancy test for another four days!
Anyway, to help keep me sane for the next few days, I'd love to hear your stories and also how likely you think it is would be for me to be pregnant with an accident like this, at 43 with long cycles.
This is intended to be a lighthearted thread to share some of my thoughts, as I don't want to panic my husband without knowing for sure! I know I was very silly so there's no need to labour over that bit 🙂