The mighty 2 week wait

The world of unknown now I suppose! I imagine your GP will let you know! Though I do know that a friend of mine said to look for a midwife as soon as it's confirmed as they book up super fast, even though GPS tell you to wait till 12 week mark!

Good luck Floph, hope everything works out!

DH test results came back all good, waiting for our copy so I can see the exact details. But so far no explanation for the no baby result! Though knowing nothing is obviously wrong gives me a bit more hope again!

Congratulations AJB, so pleased for you.

You can get an idea of midwives available in your area on this website: https://www.findyourmidwife.co.nz/ but it isn't always up to date.

Do act quickly. I rang about 3 or 4 before I found one that had space late August and that was about 3 days after my positive test. Some areas of NZ are a bit short on midwives at the moment.

Hi all, thought I would give a quick update. I had my second set of blood drawn this morning and my Dr called this afternoon to let me know my HCG level has lowered to 11 from 20 on Monday. So it looks like a chemical pregnancy for me. Really quite devastated and I'm not sure how I should be feeling really. Is it silly to be so upset over something that I lost so early?!

Sorry to hear Floph! A chemical pregnancy is still a loss, even though it is early. Grief is normal.
Dr sending me for bloods tomorrow, calculated I am just over 5 weeks pregnant. Due 4th Nov.
Bloods to check hcg levels tomorrow

Fingers crossed for you Sandme! Hopefully you get lots of BD in and have a successful month! You definitely only understand the temps nearer to the end of the month I find! Once O has been confirmed and it looks like it makes more sense!

It's pretty quiet in here at the moment!

AFM - 4DPO today, so in the TWW. It hasn't been going fast this month at all. But trying to keep positive and cross everything! Seeing as there seems to be no medical reason for us not to conceive I'm feeling a bit more hopeful!

Glad to hear it's flying by LiBi! I have to say I can't even imagine having cycles that long! But hopefully if you're having EWCM that means the end of it is near!

I was listening to a podcast yesterday talking about evening primrose oil and vitex to help regulate cycles - have you looked in to those?

Usually that first week of the TWW drags and then it speeds up a bit. It's hard not to symptom spot since it's too early for any symptoms to actually mean anything, and I've had them all before and had nothing. But my boobs are seriously sore! Like, my husband rolled against them last night and woke me up they were so sore! But they've been like that before in the TWW with no result! Just wanted a whinge

Oh I'm hopeful for you miswe! I know you said that you've had sore boobs before with nothing come of it and I definitely don't want to put you on a false high but that waking in the night because something - anything! - knocks against your breasts was my first pregnancy symptom with DD.
I used to take evening primrose oil as a teenager because of irregular cycles but it never seemed to "do" anything...although I now can't remember what it WAS supposed to do! Since you mentioned that and Vitex, I look into them both.

Sandme, I always had irregular cycles - sometimes missing in action for months - until my daughter turned 1 last year and then AF came back as a perfectly predictable 28 day cycle with a nice little show of EWCM at about CD14. Amazing. I was so hopeful it would be easy to have #2. Then with reduced breastfeeding, the cycles when out of whack a couple of months ago (when I was so certain I was pregnant) and this cycle I've had 3 lots of EWCM days apart. Still no AF, EWCM again yesterday and am about CD42.

Libi gosh thats rough isnt it. Perfect cycles onto long drawn out ones. Can totally sympthaise mine seem to have done the same so im with ya there. Hoping this month is shorter. Do you know when o was? Have you tested at all?

Miswe when will you test? Those podcasts sound really interesting. Where do you listen to them?

Afm been bding for past 3 days. Had a temp dip today and hoping it goes up tomorrow to show o has happened as i have had some pains today. I am wondering if my opks dont work or im not ovulating. Watching the temps is interested and hopefully will shed some light at the end of this cycle. So hoping its a 33dayer this month.

I've heard a lot about podcasts of late but am rather a techno-bumpkin and had put them in the too-hard basket. .

Sandme, during those perfect 28 day cycles I just used fertility friend to keep track of cm which was very accurate for predicting o and we had 2 BFPs over the year. Unfortunately both miscarried and it took about 7 weeks for me to cycle after each. I do wonder if breastfeeding was affecting my hormones too much, plenty of women have healthy pregnancies while BF but considering BF seemed to keep my fructose allergy away, it was obviously affecting me somehow.

If AF doesn't show up in the next couple of weeks I'll probably test but it seems all over the show to the point where I feel quite jaded. Maybe a touch of reverse psychology in my subconsciousness There's a 60th birthday, hens night and wedding happening in the next 4 weeks so I'll let the hubbub settle down and then probably contact Fertility Associates if no BFP by mid April.

Edited by LiBi - 15 March 2017 at 9:36pm

Hi everyone.

Sorry I disappeared for a week. Been so busy. Made the TWW go quickly though. 😊

Congrats on the BFP AJB!! That's so exciting.

When are you testing Miswe?

I tested this morning, I was 100% expecting a BFN, (haven't had any symptoms at all) but it wasn't. I got a BFP. Literally burst into tears when I saw it and forced DH out of bed to make sure I wasn't imagining it.

After 12 cycles TTC I really didn't think this would ever happen. I just really hope it sticks.

Fingers crossed for everyone else. 😊