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I do take your points, Maz, and I'm going to stay on the optimistic side of things ;) I'll cross my bridges when I get to them! Meanwhile, life on our farm will mean waste reduction will be paramount and shopping done with minimising packaging as a priority, just to tackle it from a waste angle, if not from an intuitive one ;)
ETA: and I was referring to the coyness I experienced from my mum as a kid - it was either coyness, or TMI at too late an age (as in, she waited too long - I was already in puberty) :)
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Even my husband knows everything about my cycles LOL.I guess for me having a fertility issue it's something I've always needed to know about my body.
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I am so out of touch with my body its embarassing! What i DO know is that i have irregular cycles, and after trying to track AF for about a year i gave up and just waited until i got cramps and then i knew i was getting my period. I have no motivation to get to know my body, i do now. I would love to know every little twinge and what it means, i would feel.... like its my own body KWIM? I think its sad i dont know my own body, and i was reliant on the dating scan, i refused the NT scan and i had the 20 week scan, which i probobly would have refused if i didnt want to know the sex.
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hmmm...
I guess it's a bit strange coming at this with the perspective of an IVF pregnancy.
I didn't really have a proper cycle to speak of - just constant bleeding while on the pill used for down regulation, so we ended up having to invent a LMP date just to keep the computer software happy.
That said, we knew the exact date, even moment of conception. None of the doctors or sonographers ever questioned that, and as soon as they were told IVF, they asked for my dates and took them over scans. Seems a bit ridiculous that they could trust IVF technology, but not a woman's opinion of her own body.
However, my OB still sent me for a dating scan. It was an excuse to get me in for a proper scan between my last appointment with her and my nuchal scan as she knew I was a major stress head and had suffered three previous miscarriages. I had scans at 6 weeks with the IVF clinic, 10 weeks for dating, 18 weeks for morphology, 24 weeks and 32 weeks to follow up on growth and single umbilical artery issues. I also had a quick scan at almost every OB appointment (the first being at 8 weeks) and honestly couldn't count the final number. However, my OB was happy to listen to my opinion of which way up bub was from the movements I could describe - and confirmed that I was correct with a quick scan.
I do find it ironic that I was actually booked in for another scan at 36 weeks as initial concerns about small size turned into concerns about mammoth size... Never got to that one as I went into premature labour mere hours after the scan was booked in for me.
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I think a lot of people actually find it difficult to believe that we are capeable of planning our pregnancies, and know when conception has occured, therfore knowing our due dates.
I live in country vic, with DS I only had one US at 20 weeks. with DD I had 2 13 weeks & 20 weeks, more to keep my gp happy, because i'm 29 (being cautious looking for skin folds)
Hardly any professionals or anyone else for that matter believes me when i tell them that A this is the EDD and B I will go 1 week over.
I use the knowledge I have learnt from charting to get pregnant as a contraceptive as well, because i do not want to take one until I have finished having kids, Although this is only the second time i have already learnt to lie to the docs in hospital and tell them I will discuss contraceptives with my GP, because the first time they seemed a little sceptical i could achieve this form of contraceptive despite the fact my husband and I that have been together and sexually active for more than a decade have never had any accidents, or used more precaution than condoms.
Sometimes I think the God complex is increasing, and their responces may be a direct responce to being matched with such strong willed, intelligent and informed women that are health consumers not patients.
Stick to your guns, you can always say I told you so.
