Could I really be pregnant?

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.

Keep us up to date with it all :)

Wishing you all the best.
I'll be back to see how you went.
xx

Thank you guys :)

AF still hasn't arrived. So theres another day gone (it comes first thing in the morning 99.9% of the time for me).

:crossfingers: for you.
I NEVER got the sore boobs with either of my PG's so it's not always a sign but you never know.

Hope it all works out well and no-one sees you buy a test or starts rumors.. the town i used to live in was like that too.. it sucks big time.

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.

hey sweet!

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! :D

much love!

Hi There,

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!!

:)

stupid computer..

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.

to LIVVY
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.

anyways.
will keep you all posted.

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 :shakehead: 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..

1 day to go until the test! :D

love

I really hope you are! :crossfingers:

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..

Goodluck! :goodluck:

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..

Good luck I hope you get the answer you are after soon!

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.

oh oh oh i wonder whats going on. Keep us informed. Cant wait to hear xx goodluck hun xx

LOL have u POAS yet????

Ooh the suspense. Have you tested yet?

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?

Good luck, hope you get the result you want! :goodluck:

still no test results? suspense is KILLING ME! go pee, go pee!

Think about trickling water.... Put the tap on.... POAS and most importantly... TELL US TELL US!!! :D I hope you get the result you are wanting!!!

did it a few hours ago, but my net hasn't been working.

was a BFN for me this time. but because i've been so irregular i still don't know if I'm due/overdue or what, so if it doesn't come in the next few days I'll try testing again.

the first response ones are great! i used them both times, and first time was mid afternoon after drinking about a gallon of water lol. came back BFP in seconds but put it back in the box and left it, when still had two lines after a couple of minutes put it in the cupboard and went away for about half and hour thinking "you never know one might fade!" hmm. wishful thinking right there lol. so you can pee in the afternoon if you want! or you could hold us all in suspense lol until tomorrow and pee on it first thing.. i did that with this one because am poor student and wanted to get the most reliable result lol. and now am a heifer with 10 weeks and 6days still to go lol.. maybe burger chips fizzy drink and sundae were not the best plan for lunch lol..

but whatever happens YOU SIMPLY MUST TELL US WHAT THE RESULT IS! ooo! the excitement is killing me! and whatever happens it will be right. the universe knows what it's doing.. did you get a two pack just incase?

:heartbeat::heartbeat::heartbeat::heartbeat::heart beat:


oh no! it must be wrong!
next time try in the morning maybe.. much love.

are you feeling okay? i know how much you were hoping. it will come, you never know it might just not have enough hormone stuff in your wee yet to show up. false negatives are scarily common.

Like I said I'll just wait and see what happens.

AF still hasn't turned up. but it still could.

yes I am hoping for it to decide its positive, but then again I'd much rather have kids in a proper 2 person loving marriage type situation than the one I'm in anyway.

thats true. i never thought i'd be stuck on my own either. but then i thought my b****** ex actually cared about me. funny how wrong you can be about things.

like i said. the universe will know when the time is right for you. i have great faith in it. everything will just fall into place and there your little baby will suddenly happen. and you never know, that time could be now, or it could be in couple of years. maybe that perfect someone is just round the corner, and then your picture will be complete: man, house, bub, whanau, etc. and it will be a great and glorious thing.

My first HPT this time was a BFP, I did another 4 days later and got a VERY faint pos, then did another as it was so faint we really didn't want to get our hopes up and it was a darker pos, so you just never know. I wish you all the best. I hope you're ok!

Aw bummer. But maybe you're right about the timing of it. Not that you wouldn't be ready for a baby, but things would be better at a later point.

Hope you're not too disappointed!

Still waiting on good old AF. I don't feel like its about to turn up either.

I still feel gassy and slightly bloaty and queasy. Maybe I have a stomach bug..

or maybe I just need to wait it out a few more days and test again.

Still no sign of AF. Last night the way I was feeling I was almost certain it was on its way.

Sunday is my retest day if I make it to then I've decided..

well maybe if you still get a BFN on sunday and there in no arrival of AF on monday morning it might be an idea to go see your GP as they can do a way more sensitive test, or even do an exam to work out what's going on. just for your own piece of mind hun, as all the waiting and wondering can't be doing your nerves much good, and i'd be craving a nice glass of sav by now (in fact i do from time to time lol!) and a movie with a girlfriend or something. cos a BFP is always just that, but a BFN is sometimes false and is really a BFP.. just to make life fun lol.

how are you holding up though hun? i hope you're going okay in yourself and not getting too down.. :heartbeat:

I'm good thanks livvy.
I decided Sunday was my retest day because I'm working today and tomorrow so that will keep my mind off it a while.

I know my last MP was early in Sept, and wouldn't have been any later than the 7th or 8th.. so going on the fact that I've had some 35ish day cycles lately I could still be going to get it.

who knows. the only thing stressing me at the moment really is the bank taking so fricking long to finalise my home loan..
the real estate rang me, first thing this morning to tell me my contract runs out today unless they agree to extend the finance period. oh joy.

oh hun. that's not cool at all. i'm sure it will be fine though.. you'll see! :)

well i hope that work does keep you busy and nothing cuts too close to home. and on sunday try and have a bit of a restful day with a nice chiclit or something to just switch brain off lol! am thinking of getting the new marian keyes (is on special til sunday for $23) and putting it somewhere to be my present to myself for after exams.

i do hope that everything happens as planned with the finance, that can really be nasty.. and not good for you! stupid banks.

and keep us all up to date on how you are. because you're important too. took me a long time to realise that lol. love love!

well I'm not pregnant this time.
wish these damn cramps would bugger off, I have to work.

so AF turned up after all? oh petal. well, maybe there will be a moment very soon that the soul you so wish to join you will arrive and be there to stay. who knows maybe it's father will make himself known to you too. or even maybe it might be worth having a conversation with your friend, the guy who was that potential one this time around. maybe he might be interested in doing his bit on purpose this time. you never know, and the worst that can happen is he can say no.

i hope you're doing okay honey. my thoughts are with you :heartbeat:

LOL. there is no way he would agree to doing that on purpose.
my ex would have, but then he got his other ex pregnant so he told me its not possible any more.

I really am happy without a kid right now. but it just seems like EVERYONE on earth is having them except me and I'll be the last one to join the club.
I heard of 2 more expectant mothers in my town yesterday that I didn't know about. that makes about a dozen people I know who are expecting. and its one less because yesterday one had a baby girl..

and next thing it will be my sister and my half sister because they are BOTH talking about trying again.

and here is retarded ol me can't even find a decent fella. anyone have the perfect man with a perfect brother for me??

i know what you mean about the everyone being knocked up.. but am in the same boat as you in the finding a nice bloke stakes.. but you know, what with being a nurse you probably just see a disproportionate number of pregnant people. i know i did at my last job lol. all these big round women would waddle in to see the acupuncturists.. and was talking to a red cross guy on the street the other day who was from france and was saying that new zealander's seemed to have lots of babies lol and that was so great! i must have looked unconvinced that a global repopulating army of kiwis was necessarily a good thing because he then said maybe not and looked mildly frightened..

but i do have faith that when the time is right it will happen for you. whether you're in a stable relationship with a good person or not. maybe it was just that the soul that wants you to be it's mother didn't want that particular guy to be it's father. that's what a spiritual healer told a friend of mine's sister after her second termination. she'd had one before her last big relationship, and then she'd been with this guy for about 5 years and never once got pregnant, and then had her second after she got pregnant to a one night stand. the healer said that there was a soul that wanted her to be it's mother but not him as it's father.

so don't give up hope. it'll happen :)

I work in aged care...
so work hasn't anything to do with it.

I go down the street to shop and see them everywhere I go.

Of all the ones I know expecting, they are not older than about 25. Most of them are my age or younger.

Maybe its just this town and their idea of how life goes. I'm 22 and I would say at LEAST 50% of my school year have kids or are married already, and same goes for the year below me and the year above me.

I would love to be a young parent. But maybe kids before 25 is not going to be a reality for me. At least I'll have a house and will have travelled the globe and what not.

22 is still young! am 23 so am an aged old lady by comparison.. and i don't own a house, and i don't (currently) have a job, and i haven't really gone and done an OE.. all i can claim is that have 1 and a half degrees, and a scary tendency to get pregnant to this one guy. have never gotten pregnant to anyone else and there have been ample chances.. all i can say is what a friend said to me (the one with the sister who saw the healer) in that maybe this little soul just really wanted my ex and me for it's parents.. i just guess it could have worked out between us. i really fell totally in love with him see, but as far as i can tell he never really gave a s*** about me. he'd tell me about how he's make breakfast in bed for his gf from some years ago, who'd tell him he'd done her toast wrong or some bs like that. and i thought that was pretty rough, but the thing that has stung is that he never once did anything like that for me. poor deluded baby, thinking this b****** would be a good dad. sorry.. have had a bit of a self pitying day..

but to get back on point! i think honestly that you have heaps of time for bubs to come along and find you. i mean you've got everything else sorted so really, maybe it's just waiting till everythings settled, like you've moved in to your new house and had a bit of time there and then a nice guy will toddle into you life and it's all happy! i honestly wouldn't recommend rushing into it. and i think that there is a sickening trend of people playing happy families at the moment.. but then there was the herald magazine (auckland newspaper weekend glossy - canvas) this week with their front page saying: married at 20 divorced at 23. so you know.. and the amount of people who have kids more by accident at first and then keep going, i do wonder at how those kids will mature when essentially their parents never had a chance to reach their full potential..

i hope that helps as a train of thought.. sweet dreams honey. x