Can't actually remember my last period. I know it was after 28th august. I know it was around the same time as my house mates gf, and she was on hers again last friday.
I am almost certain that I was about to ovulate around the 24th and 25th of Sept.
I did the naughties on the 26th.
My cycles are never regular anyway, so it might be that it just hasn't come yet.
I had a temp 37.2 yesterday, and 37.0 today.
I've been quite gassy.
I've been feeling slightly queasy.
I've been more tired than usual, and thirsty, my mouth been drying out really fast.
I've had crampy type feelings for the last 3 days. Not the same, but similar to the kind I get the day before and during AF. But I've never had it more than a day before my period.
No sign of anything affecting my boobs, but I read that it doesn't affect everyone straight away anyway.
I've decided to wait until Thursday and test if AF hasn't come. Because I'll have a friend here for moral support. With each passing day I think about it more and more because I'm half hoping to be pregnant.
Also I could just go out and get a test tomorrow. but i live in a small town, and people talk, and I don't want rumours running the town about me if it turns out I'm not pregnant anyway. But waiting is killing me!!!
brydz - Thats a hard one. I foud with both my preg my boobs were sore before AF was even due and got no other symptoms until about 6 weeks. I did feel as though AF was on her way with time though... I was certain it was going to be another month of TTC for us, but turned out I was wrong! Everyone is very different and sometimes telling the differece between AF coming and being pg can be really hard. It must be so hard holding out to test, but I completely understand about the small town (although I have never lived in a small town before the inlaws are from a very small town and know everyone else business!), so I wish you all the very best with testing on Thurs. I hope you get the result you are wanting.
Is increased heart rate a possible symptom also?
I am a nurse, and yesterday at work I was fiddling around with the BP machine and my BP was normal but my heart rate was 104 or something.
It's still up around the 100 mark today.
Yeah well I NEVER get sore boobs during my periods either. Nor do they get sensitive in any kind of sexual manner (I'm a DD cup) So it could be just how I roll...
only time will tell.
Ava's mum, you are due about the same time as one of my besties i think she is due the 16th of Jan ish.
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i have to tell you i had no symptoms of pregnancy with either of my two until about week 6. the only thing that gave the game away for me (as they were both rather a surprise for both me and my ex) was the lack of a period.. i would hazard a guess that your increased heartrate is probably down to stress mostly. i have had quite a fast pulse (with low blood pressure) for the second trimester onward with this one (with my first i terminated, and although i knew it was the right thing for me to do at the time, i felt like i lost part of my soul). you could have already started with your volume increase in your blood so your heart could be working harder but if so that wasn't noticable for me..
and i'm glad your going into this with a positive attitude! thats fantastic! but it can be pretty scary to wait to do the test.. i waited with both of mine.. 5 days i think with both. and i think the scariest bit was telling people lol mostly the father and then my family.. first time around i asked him as i was getting up to have a shower "have you gotten anyone pregnant before?" and he says "no.. why..?" and i'm like "no reason!" and run to the shower. second time i said "i think we need to talk" and he says "that sounds serious", and i say "it is rather" and he says "are you pregnant?" and i'm like "...mmm..."
but yeah. it'll be a challenge but it sounds like you are the kind of woman we need to be procreating in this world! someone strong and clever and grounded. the only thing i would worry about is that you said you weren't sure if he'd want to be involved and it sounds as though you would like it if he was, esp given that you are close friends.. my ex asked me to live with him and raise our son together but not be together ourselves and i said no (because i felt it would just hurt me). so i moved home with my mum for now and he's shacked up with a 21year old who was having a tantrum every time we spoke, and kicked him out when he came to baby's 20week scan. we were friends until about that point, and now just even to hear or speak with him just makes me angry and upset.. so i worry about the situation deteriorating for you too.. although maybe as starting as just friends instead of being partners, maybe it'll be okay.
i hope so. i wish you all the best. let us all know what happens with your maybebaby!
just to let you know that my symptoms were very much like yours. i got cramping about 5 days before AF was due and was again expecting to go through another month of trying. was very tired (still am!) and to convince myself that i wasn't preggo i took my temperature only to find that it was really high!! so anyways, you might be or might not be but a big good luck for thursday!!
Don't know if this is relevant. Couldn't find much evidence either way.
Cervix has been low and firm last few days.
Since this morning higher and softer. Does this happen before AF?
AF still hasn't been..
Thanks for the feedback. I need this chatter to keep me from going crazy while I wait.
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thanks for your long post.
I especially like the part where u said I sound grounded and clever etc. I think I am pretty well every bit that too. I think I am ready for a child for sure, father or no father.
I just bought my first house
also my close friend tried co existing in a house with her ex too. He kicked her out on the weekend. her and their baby boy now have no home. what a jerk.
lol sorry, can't say i know a thing about my cervix.. except that it's in there somewhere doing it's thing.. but wow! buying a house sounds pretty exciting! what i wouldn't give for my own space.. but had to quit work over a month ago as was just too tired, so can't afford rent lol.
yeh.. sorry about my habit for long posts lol.. they just sort of happen. poss partly procrastination, partly the need for a rant lol. like right now i ought to be reading a case [I]manson v[I] somebody i can't remember.. for todays lecture. started it but was so very dry. something to do with wills and tax. yay. not quite the same as my other paper which was hathaway about some guy in wisconson who had sex with a dead deer, and tried to say that it wasn't illegal because animals ceased being animals when they died, said at what point does and animal stop being an animal and start being a carcass.. and in class we're like dude, just let it go.. but hey. lol thats law for you!
but yes. my friend caro says that her husband was pretty much useless in the care of their bub for the first year lol so you know i think men are fairly redundant. they just needle for attention and covet bodily parts, in much the same way as bub will lol. i have to say i miss my ex sometimes but in the long run we're better off without him. selfish b****** that he is. he didn't even tell me when his mum was in hospital recently, said "cos it's non of your f****** business". nice. doesn't seem to realise that it certainly is bub's business and to get that info to bub he has to speak to me. not least that i actually care about her.. she's like family.
but sorry i can't help on the cervix front.. hmm maybe long rambly posts are partly to do with preggy brain - sort of leads me off on all sorts of random tangents..
But i have been tricked so many times! Right before i was diagnosed with pcos i was convinced i was pregnant. My boobs felt like bricks they were so sensitive and they had weird veins on them, my sense of smell was off and so was my taste, i had weird cramping, i was moody, i was nauseas most mornings and i was really tired. But then i had this horrible pain one day at work and if i was pregnant it wasnt good but when i went to the doctor he did a blood test and nope not pregnant but have pcos..
SO I'm up early for me.. and first trip to the toilet this am. no sign of AF yet..
I do feel a bit weird. like very very faint cramps. maybe its a hunger pain.. we all know I am a lover of food.. I'll have to get all dressed and stuff and go to the shops to buy food because there isn't any in my cupboard. what a pain.
maybe I'll give in and buy a HPT while I'm there.. don't know yet.
one thing I can tell you is that when I normally get AF I can tell because I'll have a mongrel headache, sometimes migraine from one or two days before hand.
No sign of any headaches either.
TMI but CM is increasing, and cervix is now so high I can't even feel it..
So I took the next step and I went and bought me a HPT.
I got the first response one. I read somewhere its better to test in the morning, but on the box it says any time of day.
So now I'm just waiting on my bladder..
a lil nervous but it's still more likely to be negative. have to wait and see.
When we were TTC, every month I was convinced I had pg symptoms, and I swear I was just imagining them because I was looking so hard! When I did get pg, like Pish, very sore boobs were the first sign, and pretty much nothing else till a bit later. I think you do get an increased heart rate in pregnancy but not till later when you have greater blood volume? I think?
Could I really be pregnant?
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dude, just let it go.. but hey. lol thats law for you! 
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