Can a pregnant lady do me a favour?

Ok i have a kind of silly request.....

Could anyone who is say past 17 weeks who may still have a preg test laying around do one and see if it comes up positive??????

A bit of backround- I am still bfeeding ds (6months old) and dh and i have not been using any form of contraception as we will be stoked for another bub to come along anytime..

Now, since having DS i pretty much got my figure back fairly quickly, until lately, when i have noticed i am getting a bit of a tum (dh has noticed too!!) Now other than that i have no real signs other than about 3 months ago i did have a week of feeling sick and throwing up- but i put it down to food poisening as a friend who ate the same thing was also sick- but not for as long.

I did a pregnancy test which came back negative- but then as i was reading a few posts on here someone mentioned that the hcg levels drop once you get past a certain stage of pregnancy- and therefore i am wondering if i am already getting a tummy (assuming i am preg and not just fat!! lol) that i may be passed this stage where the hcg is no longer present and therefore i would get a neg on a HPT..

Now i know i could probably just go to the dr, but i dont want to seem like a tool- so i was hoping one of my fellow bb buddies could help me with this experiment and if i see that a preg lady can get a neg test, i will be straight to the dr!!

Thanks in advance!!

Good luck!!! Can't help with the pg test sorry! My cousin found out she was 20 weeks pg with her DS, she had normal AF and only went to GP cause of the "bloating" LOL

Just wanted to opo in an say "I hope you are!!!!!!!" How amazing would that be! Bubs already growing and you only just noticing a tummy! :lol:

Well I took a test recently, maybe around 33 weeks because I wanted to take a photo of the "positive" sign as I didn't even think to do that when I first tested 7 months ago! :redface: Anyway, I guess the bad news is it came up positive straight away and the line was very dark. I'm sure it's different for everybody so I'd go to the docs just in case. Good luck!!

Mrs Mac.. yes bloating is a good way to describe it!! lol I am thinking either preg, or AF is on her way- but the bloating just keeps going!!! lol

Thanks Holly!!! I am not too fussed either way really.. i will be stoked if i am, but if not thats ok too- ds is only 6 months old- so we have plenty of time before we really need to try again...lol maybe i am just trying to find out i am not just getting fat!! lol

i just went to do one for you but iam out of tests....
i will be watching w interest!!

Umm.. SB - hate to tell you this mate - but even when I was 27 weeks with DS I peed on a stick (for a friend - she wanted to know what the line was supposed to look like) it came up just as strong as it did when I first peed on it at 6 weeks.

Sorry mate!
Get thee to the docs ;)

Thanks ladies!! LMAO i guess i am just getting a podge!! I am glad i asked though- i would rather look silly here than at a drs office!! lol

PMSL, it must be a 6 month thing, I'm getting a more of a tum as well, I was flatening down, now I'm ballooning out again. And unless I'm Mary its just a podge :doh: :doh:

I had less belly 2 weeks after giving birth than what I do now 8 months afterwards. Pretty sure mines just podge. God I hope it is.

Nearly 3 years later I have more podge too!!! I think mine is more post Christmas than anything else. I now weigh more than I did when I was 9 months pg with both DDs :(

Sorry darling - but you will have a huge HCG at 17 weeks. The HCG levels off but it doesn't drop. I would say AF may be coming... :hug:

I tested just last week :redface: cause I found two pg tests. Apparantly your HCG is quite low in the third trimester. There it was, two lines, so dark and bold, and came up within microseconds.

Thanks girls!! lol Glad im not the only one with a podge!! :p

i guess we will just have to try harder!! lol Lucky DH thinks the podge is cute!!

Wow and I thought my body was strange at around 6 months!! It seems a lot of us podged up around then! I was able to wear my prepreg jeans before that then I couldn't!! Of course now I can't but for well quite obvious reasons!

SB, how you get a BFP soon!! :D

blame the podge on BB! Since BF I sit here on this computer reading threads, then Ashton finishes feeding but I am only half way through my new threads! So I sit here a bit longer then before I know it an hour has past! So I blame you all!

Hmmm. I think I might get another one then. As per usual, I just knew I was so got one of those "early detection" ones, but the line is so faint that DH didn't believe me that it was positive. I like having a nice deep positive one for the baby book.

SB, I got a bit more of a 'podge' after 4 or 5 months, and I was almost down to my pre-pg weight before that! Sadly, I've never made it back down there ;) Seems we're not the only ones though, I wonder why that is?????

My tummy is more out now than it was post delivery :wall: I looked GREAT for the first month but now just feel flabby. And I weigh less than pre-preg (although that is more than it should be) The gym has been revisited!!

SB - it is good to see you are doing so well :hug:

LoL yes i blame BB and facebook too!!! lol Although since moving- i am now walking distance to town (a very new thing for me) and i have been walking alot- but i guess that doesnt help the belly much!! lol

So i guess now i am officially TTC.. hmmmm i will have to bulk buy some tests lol as AF still hasnt arrived yet- i have no way of really knowing what my cycle is doing!! lol I know its possible to fall again before she does rear her ugly head (HOW cool would that be!! No AF for YEARS!!!) so i am assuming i can still ovulate so i will have to test regularly to check!!

Michelle... Its wonderful to see Edna ;) arrived safe and sound!! xoxox

So you got me curious and I have lots of leftover tests, so I went and did one: the second line came up right away.

I'm 32 weeks today, so I guess that the hormones don't go down enough by now to make the tests not work.

I did hear a story recently of someone who thought she might be 6 weeks pregnant and went to get an ultrasound to be told she was 26 weeks! Can you imagine?! I don't think I'd be able to adjust to that idea fast enough to cope - it's bad enough having a full 9 months to get used to it...

I know what you mean about not wanting to go to the doc's. A friend of mine asked me to get a POAS from Woollies for her....I was 35 weeks pg with DD1!
Being only a size 8 then, the pg was pretty obvious! So I felt like a real tool! :rofl:
Can you imagine the thoughts going through the check out chikkies head??

Hope you do get your :bfp: soon :)

I will add that about that time as the baby moved onto solids i did start putting on weight cause while i was bf i could eat whatever, as baby weaned i was still eating the junk and so a few kilos crept on. So you might find if baby has taken to solids well that you are just not giving as much milk and therefore not buring all teh extra energy.