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[wickedcherub]

Just a post about trying to conceive.



I'm not tracking ovulation, I always assumed I ovulated when my discharge changed consistency somewhere mid cycle. I've never had regular cycles either, but I've been on the pill for so long it's hard to remember.

When we tried to conceive Liam, I got off the pill, had a period, then got pregnant the next cycle.

Since my period has returned post pregnancy, my cycles have been this many days: 28, 30, 31, 38.

I'm currently on day 35 of this cycle. I don't feel pregnant, but this is the first cycle that we've had sex throughout. I don't recall seeing a change in my discharge either :\ I've already peed on two sticks this cycle, but they were a week ago. Adam won't let me buy anymore because they're expensive.

It's driving me nuts, waiting for my period. I keep seeing 'symptoms' of pregnancy that are probably period symptoms but my period isn't here either. I don't know how people do this month after month :( Looking at the trend, my period probably won't come until like day 40 or something :(

Over it. Just want to pee on a stick.

Comments

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Buy the dollar store tests? Supposedly, they work just as well. Do they have dollar stores (or the equivalent) in Australia?

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

No! They're like, 16 dollars for three tests :(

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I found the cheap ones online! Oh yeah!

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

Buy tests online! They're less than a dollar each, you just get the strips and not all the plastic nonsense.

Good luck, lady.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I hadn't thought of that. I will have a look!

Thankyou!

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

My periods were all funny after coming off the pill. I would ovulate and have a really short luteal phase so even if the egg fertilized there's no way it could have implanted. I got pregnant with Kira my first normal cycle. Hang in there, the pill can do funny things to you.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Oh, I haven't been on the pill since before Liam. I'm not sure how my periods are now post baby though. I have no idea what my luteal phase is. :\

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Ah, I read that wrong and thought you had just gone off the pill.

[science-of-life.livejournal.com]

I was about to suggest internet cheapies but you are all over it already :)

I was using an iPhone cycle tracker trying to avoid falling pregnant. Second cycle, thought I had ovulated a week earlier so was safe, but no... Damn it! Of course I am happy to be pregnant, but the timing wasn't great.

That said, I know what you mean with how do people do it month after month... I'm lucky I've never had drawn out periods of TTC!

Good luck :)

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I think maybe the month after month people just.. get on with their lives :\

My aunt got pregnant at age 43 after being married over 20 years. Just.. randomly after trying for so long! He's now a strapping 15 year old boy. :D

[venivincere]

This is how you do it month to month: go live your life. Have sex. Love Adam a lot, take Liam out and go play, have sex, visit with your friends and family, have sex, cook new things, clean house, have sex, and in a month or two, if you haven't had a period, take a test and THEN you'll know. In other words, if you keep thinking about it and make it your entire focus, you're going to be all sorts of anxious and lose all this time to being anxious. It will happen when it happens, no matter what you do. So go fill your days with living and loving and lots and lots of sex, and just know that the day will come. *hugs*

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

I'm just a terribly anxious person at all times, Veni :( I've had to train myself to stand a certain distance from Liam at all times when he's at the playground because I'm constantly hovering and worried he'll fall, or some kid will bowl him over or whatever. Then I'm worried that he's so small and worried if I'm feeding him correctly, and worried that he's not talking, or sleeping.

Liam doesn't know though. Complete picture of calm and consistency I am around him. That's all I can aim for sometimes.

But I'll try, Veni! I'll try!

[venivincere]

Oh, bb. That kind of worrying you can't ever turn off. The only thing that helps is that they grow and amazingly, they learn to take care of themselves. But worrying about conception -- well, it's either going to happen or it's not, and you know what you need to do to make it happen and you're doing that, so... have fun with it? Get creative? Install a chandelier so you can swing from it? :-D