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September 2011 Moms
boxergurl
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Can't believe the Sept 12' board is about to blow up... (PIP, storytelling inside)
boxergurl
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with BFP posts!! It's making me all nostalgic and sad n' stuff. 
Since I'm feeling nostalgic, anyone care to share their BFP story??
Our LO was a Christmas Eve made baby (best present ever!!). I tested 1/7, only because I was going out with friends to celebrate my 30th birthday, and I planned on consuming lots of wine. I was certain I was out. I had started spotting like I did every other cycle, and I was crampy. However, since we had started TTC in May, that was the first time I had made it one day past my anticipated start of AF. I definitely held onto that tiny bit of hope, but I just knew when I tested it was going to be a BFN.
So I took my test, and laid on the bed with my DH waiting for the result. We watched the time pass, talked about the what if's, and then I got up to look at the test. I walked in the bathroom, took a quick glance, and turned back around. Then I did a double take. I couldn't believe there was a second line! My DH was in complete disbelief and just had to look at the test to believe me. I had always said I wanted to have a baby by the time I was 30. I found out I was pregnant on the last day of my 20's, and I couldn't imagine a more perfect birthday present. It was definitely the best way to start my 30's.
And while we're at it, don't forget to PIP of your LO!
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Re: Can't believe the Sept 12' board is about to blow up... (PIP, storytelling inside)
I can't remember the exact day, but the second week of January I had a near fainting spell while at work. It was really strange. I was standing at the computer and all of a sudden my eyes went all wonky, so I sat down. Everyone was all like, "are you pregnant? haha. just kidding!" Well, I work in a hospital lab, so I just went and peed in a cup and ran a test. It was negative.
That weekend I started having a strange twitching near my bellybutton. I thought it was kind of weird, so when I ran to the grocery store after work that Tuesday the 18th I figured I would just grab a test to make sure. What do you know, the store didn't have any! So the next day, January 19th, at work I thought I would run one again without telling anyone. We were a little busy, so I just started running one in the middle doing other stuff. About 5 minutes later I went back to look at it and... BFP! Let me tell, it is NOT a good idea to do a pregnancy test at the beginning of your shift! I was all worked up the rest of the night! I really wanted to wait until I got home to tell DH in person, but I just had to take a picture and send it to him. Not my ideal way of telling him, but I couldn't keep it in!
Wedding Anniversary: August 7th 2010 BFP: December 22nd 2010 Beautiful Little Birthday: August 30th 2011
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Can I just say how insanely jealous I am of the Sept. '12 board? I loved every minute of being pregnant (evenw ith the GD) and can't wait to be pregnant again!
I found out I was pg on January 8. I hadn't had a good feeling about that cycle considering I got a spider bite on my boob that got infected, had to go to the ER, was prescribed antibiotics, and then got a yeast infection. Yeah, so not fun! But, we did have sex on Christmas and 2 days after. That was it. 2 times that cycle when I had been off bc for almost a year!
I tested the morning of January 8 because I was going out for Mexican food and margaritas that night with my godfather and my parents. I don't know why I tested - I wasn't having any symptoms. But I did and proceeded to pee on about 5 other pg tests and ran out to get a digital, haha! We couldn't believe it, but I guess that is why I almost threw up lunch at my company's kick-off event the day before....
In November 2010, I had "that feeling" that I was pregnant, but turned out wrong. Then toward the end of December, I just decided to enjoy myself and not think about getting pregnant. LO was conceived sometime mid-December, but I could never tell you when, because we were sexin' it up just about every day.
At Christmas, the parents-in-law gave DH a book on "Romancing Your Wife," and BIL jokingly told him that was their hint for us. Unbeknownst to us, I was already pregnant, so we didn't exactly need the help.
I got my BFP on New Year's morning, while DH got our coffee ready. I meant to wait the two minutes for the test, but a big blue "+" showed up immediately. I'll never forget the sweet look on DH's face when I showed him. We were/are so happy.
I still can't believe it's that time! I don't want to be pregnant again for some time but I'm jealous of Sept 12 too!
Exactly one year ago TODAY I thought I might be ovulating and able to get pregnant based on a sign a friend told me to look for. We had only been married 6 weeks so the thought of wanting to be pregnant was very new to me, I didn't even get a chance to start charting like I planned. DH and I decided we would not use BC for Dec, Jan, and Feb just to see what might happen (and of course I told him no one gets pregnant that quick!).
Well we did the deed that night and a week later I started feeling like I was pregnant - similar to per-period feelings only way sooner for me. I started testing and got 2 BFN's but kept testing anyway although I was telling myself "no way, it is all in your head!". Then I got 2 very faint tests back - so faint I looked at them forever and still thought I was seeing things. Jan 3rd I tested again and while still on the faint side I could tell it was no longer in my head! It was the night before DH's birthday, so I wrapped the test up and gave it to him for one of his presents - he couldn't believe just as I couldn't either! We are so blessed!!
I remember those giddy "OMG I'm pregnant!" feelings so well. What an awesome time!
Right there with you, lady :P Except I am SO not ready for another newborn, and DH doesn't know if he wants a third
My BFP story... I tested on MLKJr Day and it was negative (I wasn't even late yet by my standards... it was day 30, and I typically have 40 day cycles). I couldn't decide if I was sad or relieved because DD1 was not even 11 months old yet. Mostly sad, though, I think. A week later I hadn't started my period, so I tested again, and tada! 2 pink lines. And I didn't believe them so I tested again that day and again the next day. I still didn't believe those two, so a few days later went to the doctor and they confirmed.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
We had had our second m/c in October. I had to have two D&Cs because of remaining tissue, and life was just REALLY shitty in general for us both. We decided to stop trying, get back on track mentally, and look into adoption in a year or so.
We had sex exactly once between October and well, when I gave birth (pelvic rest as soon as I got my BFP). December 30. Didn't think a thing of it.
On January 14, I cleaned out our linen closet. I found an old HPT and set it on the bathroom counter to use it up in the morning just to get it out of the house (for some reason, I wanted to use it...not just throw it away). I awoke at 5am on the 15th to let the dogs out, took the test, and there were two lines. DH and I freaked the eff out.
Our DD was also a xmas eve conception (or close thereabouts). I also tested that first week of January not expecting much and got a very faint line at 11DPO. 2 days later it was a sure positive on several tests. We're not ready to decide about having another but this time of year does make me a bit nostalgic for when DD was but a twinkle in my eye.
Would PIP but can't on this computer
Awww, I love these BFP stories!
Bea is a Christmas morning baby...that's why her middle name is "Noelle". We were doing fert treatments and had just come off a BFN cycle. I woke up on 12/26 just KNOWING it had worked and knowing I was pregnant. I tested as soon as I could (I want to say 1/3), and it was faint BFP
I actually managed to hold in the news until DH came home from work and we were both cautiously excited.
We were not actively TTC yet when I got my positive... we were thinking about it soon, but had been using condoms/pull'n'pray for the time being....so LO was a pleasant surprise!
Basically, I was expecting to get my period ON Xmas Eve (usually always had a cycle that was around 28 days.... had been charting only to track my periods and that's it, not ovulation)... Well it never came, yet I had been feeling crampy. So I figured, Oh well maybe the fates are just being kind to me and letting me get thru Xmas without it.....I would plan to take a test in a few days if it still didn't show.
Well sure enough another 2-3 days passed and still no sign of it, yet I still was having cramping like it should be starting anytime. Didn't have my hopes up and didn't expect it, because we honestly didn't have sex all that much that month and we had used condoms..... but decided I should test to make sure becuase I'm never usually late.
Took a test on a Monday morning and....Negative! Well OK... must have just ovulated late and I'll start anytime now. I shrugged it off and moved on.
Tested again just to make sure the next day on Tuesday... Another negative.
Skipped Wednesday
But then, early on Thursday morning I had the weirdest most real-feeling dream that I tested one more time and it was positive. It freaked me out and woke me up and I just felt this urge that I needed to test one more time (I think this was the day before New Years Eve) .... I assured myself that it would probably be negative again but I needed to ease my mind after the dream
Went in one more time Thurs morning to test with FMU and sat there watching the result window the whole time....and out of nowhere this extremely faded second line appears..... I just blinked a whole bunch and stared at it for probably 5 minutes trying to decide if I was seeing things or if it was real. Or if I was still dreaming by chance lol
Sure enough that faded line was there.... though I still wasnt 100% convinced, I called my H while he was driving to make a delivery for work and basically just said it in a shaky voice "So.... It appears I'm probably pregnant" ..... probably the last thing he was expecting to hear! Tried to send a pic over my cell phone but he wasn't fully convinced because he couldn't see the second line very well....So that evening we bought a digital and decided we would test again in the morning
Tested one last time with FMU on New Years Eve. There was no denying that one! Definitely "Pregnant"! ..... We were a mix of surprised, scared, and happy.
Now I am so happy this surprise came into our life.... I love my son so much. Below is his newest picture -- 3 months old on 12/16/11
Unlike a lot of you, I wasn't TTC for a long time before getting pregnant. We'd been thinking about it for a while, but I had to put it off because of a medical issue (and because, to be honest, the whole thing made me very nervous and I was procrastinating), and then we realized that if we didn't conceive that month, we'd miss a "window" in my career when having a baby would be less disruptive, and might not have another one for a while (having a baby in October or later may not have worked... it's complicated). So we decided to give it a try, and then if it worked it would be fate, and if it didn't work, we'd reconsider whether it was a good idea right now. I was pretty naive to the whole TTC thing-- the most sophisticated thing I did was to google "when should I have sex to get pregnant" and then we made sure to have sex on the two nights that showed up as having the highest chances. No charting, nothing fancy. Those nights were (I think) 12/21 and 12/22, or maybe 12/20 and 12/21. One was the night of the winter solstice lunar eclipse.
Anyway, around 12/30, I was hanging out with an old friend, and she told us she was pregnant. I was thrilled and had tons of questions for her, and we basically talked about it all night. That night, after we got home, I suddenly got hit with a bunch of symptoms-- sore boobs, dizziness, nausea, all the classic stuff. My husband thought it had to be all in my head, after talking about pregnancy all night. But they didn't go away. I didn't know you could test so early, and I wanted to wait until we had flown home post-holidays so it could be just me and my H, so I waited until 1/4 to test (in retrospect, I'm not sure how I held out). I was SO ANXIOUS to get home the whole flight to confirm what I was increasingly sure of. And then there it was. Two pink lines, clear as day-- nothing faint, no ambiguity. My husband was only happy-- he said he already knew I was pregnant, so the actual test didn't really do much for him-- but I felt a lot of competing emotions that day. I was so confused and excited and overwhelmed and uncertain. Although I feel lucky that I got KU on the first go, not having those months of TTC meant that I was not really prepared emotionally for the idea of becoming a mom. It took some time for the news to sink in. Now that she's here, it seems so obvious-- of course we were/ are ready, of course she's the perfect addition to our lives. It's been a hugely transformative process, and every day I feel blessed.
Our original plan was to start TTC after our 2-year wedding anniversary, which was Oct. 2010. Once we got there, we decided we weren't quite ready yet. I was getting lots of overtime at work, DH was a little nervous about how to financially handle things, and I was a little nervous about being a parent in general. I was already off BC and we were using condoms, so we continued that route.
Fast forward to January. The week I was expecting AF (my cycles are anywhere from 28-35 days, and I wasn't charting, so hard to know for sure), I noticed that I was extremely tired. My boobs hurt too-and they always do before AF, but this was like that x10. So I kinda wondered if something was up, but kept talking myself out of it. On the 15th, I bought a test on my way home from work, but then when I went to the bathroom to take it, I was spotting, so I figured I was about to start. We had a birthday party at our house that night, so I put the test away and didn't think of it again all night. Then the next morning, the 16th, when I woke up the test popped in my mind immediately and I felt like I just had to take it. I didn't even tell DH, I just went in the bathroom and took it. The second blue line showed up immediately, and very dark. I didn't even have time to reach for the toilet paper before it appeared. I had a mini panic attack on the toilet and then brought the test in to show DH in our bedroom. We were both in shock the rest of the day!
I was just laid off in September from my job that covered my IF. As part of my package they paid for 3 months of insurance. I got a new job in November, and talked my husband in to using our "last" fertility treatment covered 100% by my old insurance.
We started treatment 12/17 I triggered on 12/30/10 and thought I was out cause on 1/12/11 started bleeding and I was devested. The bleeding stopped the next day so I found a digital test just to you know get it out of the house, peed on it while in the shower and the word pregnant came up on the display. I walked in to the living room and just started bawling as I handed the test to Jay.
We were so grateful as we didn't know if we would ever become parents due to the cost of IF treatments.