GTKY: Isn't ironic? Don't you think?

stothi · April 2018

While nothing in her song was actually ironic and was really all just coincidence, it still has a nice ring to it...
In retrospect, before you knew you were pregnant did anything ironic (or you know, coincidental, funny or interesting) happen? Like did you get a sample of free prenatal vitamins in the mail a week before your bfp and think, "what the heck do I need these for?" Did a gypsy lady down at the peir ask you if you had names picked out yet, 3 days before you picked up a test?
Anyone have any "just before I found out I was pregnant, ___________ happened" stories?

iluvgoldies33 · April 2018

I had a dream I was carrying twins - told DH about it the next morning and it turned out to be true - though we didn't find out till 2 weeks later. Ironic or early mothers intuition ?

ashh2018 · April 2018

DH said “we get have a baby or get a dog - not both!” Bc I’ve been trying to convince him we need a dog since I’ve known him lol. When I got my BFP I considered not telling him right away and adopting a puppy first... jk... sort of haha

stothi · April 2018

In the month before I got pregnant, 2 or 3 people asked if I was pregnant any time I mentioned anything remotely baby related. Each time I said, "no, I have an IUD. Definitely not/not getting pregnant." Then a few days after I got to see my husband someone asked, "so, do you think you got pregnant?" Again, I said, "no, I have an IUD. I'm not getting pregnant."
BFP 2 weeks later. Totally pregnant. I mean, I still had the IUD, so I got that part right, but I was also totally pregnant.

The last period I had before getting pregnant was kinda crazy! Just extra heavy, longer than usual, different blood, nothing scary or extreme, just different than usual. I remember thinking, "whoa! My uterus just cleaned house! That's totally the period you have right before you get pregnant." I've never had a period like that or a thought like that before. Turns out in my case I was correct though...

knitknitread · April 2018

Both times I just knew the sex of the baby as soon as I got the BFP. It's like my brain just kept shouting "IT'S A GIRL!" for DD and "IT'S A BOY!" this time.

For DD, one of my friends called me getting pregnant a month before my BFP.

nackie · April 2018

Amazon started showing me ads for maternity clothes a week before I got my BFP. At the time I chalked it up to having two baby showers in a month that I bought gifts for, but buying things off other people’s registry has never influenced my ads before.

pourmeanothermocktail · April 2018

A friend of mine is a FTM and is "due" this week. We went to see her show (she's an actress) two days before BFP, and were talking about how great she looks. She carries small and I carry huge. I said something about how I could be a couple months behind her and still be bigger.

Well it ended up not *quite* true. At 39 weeks and almost 21 weeks, she's got maybe 1 more inch of belly than me. Maybe.

SkilledSailor · April 2018

We'd been trying for a few months and were still processing our dx's when I tested at 10dpo with a BFN. I went out with my bestie and thoroughly enjoyed nearly a bottle of wine. Came home, crying to H about how I just wanted something little to love and if we couldn't have a baby then I wanted the dog rescue to at least get back to us about our application.

Next day BFP. Four days later, we were approved for the dog.

@nackie FB can be so creepy!

MandyMost · April 2018

TW (loss): Before having DD (now almost 2 years old!) we had at least 2 miscarriages (I believe a 3rd was an early chemical pregnancy and I just never tested), and then had some testing done and found out my husband had a genetic abnormality that causes first-trimester miscarriages...and then was pregnant again with DD before we had a chance to see a genetic counselor and was shocked that she was fine and had a happy, healthy baby.

TW (fertility): Anyway, when we started trying again, I expected to essentially get pregnant immediately, since I had gotten pregnant about 75% of the months in my life I had ever had unprotected sex. Literally. After 3 months of trying I was like "oh know, I need to start trying harder" so I bought a basal body temp thermometer, and was planning to start tracking. And then found out I was pregnant! Now I have this fancy thermometer (it links to an app) totally unused and sitting in a box. I'm terrified of jinxing myself if I give it away, but as soon as this kiddo is born I'm giving that thermometer away to someone who could use it!

jhjocelyn · April 2018

I had a full day of total stupidity. I told dh I’d better be pregnant so there was some explanation.

I left to go to a meeting, stopped for a quick errand, took too long making me late, then got off the wrong exit, even though I know the way there. Tried to park our *shiny new* truck in the tight overfulled parking garage, totally scraped the side against a cement pillar trying to turn a corner. Went all the way up and all the way down the parking garage tried to fit in several spaces, could not get the truck in. Ended up leaving and finding a different place to park, walked to drop off goodies for a friend, got back to the damaged truck and then remembered I needed to stop at the pharmacy back across near where she was, got halfway back, remembered I did not have my wallet. Then on my way home could not remember how to get to dollar tree for dd’s bday party...

I honestly began wondering if I was safe enough to keep going! Super unnerving. I’m usually organized and on top of things, but the entire day I automatically made the wrong choices.

Patience7150 · April 2018

I quit nursing/pumping so I could have a few months of my body not being shared before TTC#2, and three weeks later BFP. Great break.

starla · April 2018

TW for loss

We had two late 2nd tri losses and a CP, with no living children. One day just before the cycle I got KU, I was hugging DH and I got this image in my mind of having a huge belly and it getting in the way of our hug so that I had to turn sideways. It was random, but gave me hope in a weird way. Also after I got my BFP, the first time I tried to find the HB using the Doppler, I was unsuccessful, but there was a rainbow of light on the wall where I was laying down.

smsaulino · April 2018

The week before Christmas, we set up an appointment with a fertility specialist for January 3rd. I tested positive Christmas Day and on January 2nd had it confirmed with my doctor's office.

nlc8424 · April 2018

I was super sick New Years Eve weekend. I woke up in the middle of the night vomiting and was stuck to the toilet for the next 24 hours. Totally convinced myself that a freshly implanted embryo could not survive the havoc my body was going through, and the day after it ended I got the faintest of squinters. I was praying it was not an omen for how this pregnancy was going to unfold, but ended up nauseous 24/7 shortly after that.

Also, a few weeks after I got my BFP, one of my managers asked how the baby was (DS), and apologized immediately after saying "sorry, I'll probably always call him that until you've got a second one." He had no idea I was actually pregnant at the time!

southernlady07 · April 2018

@starla I just got chills thinking about the rainbow light!

magnolia209 · April 2018

On December 28, I went to visit a friend who I hadn't seen in a few months even though she lives very close to me. She told me she was pregnant! 11 weeks at the time. She poured me a drink and told me the whole story about how she found out and what the first trimester had been like so far etc...as she was talking, I started to reflect on how I had been feeling the past few days (a little off but nothing totally obvious). I was so turned off by the drink though. I was barely sipping it and kind of nudging it away. As I was leaving, my friend asked me if I wanted her full box of tampons. I said, "sure!". She threw her last un-used pregnancy test in there as well. I walked back home and told H that the friends were pregnant and that she gave me tampons (I didn't mention the test). H told me that I wasn't going to need them. I just ignored him and tried to ignore all the weird little signs of early pregnancy that I was feeling. I wanted it so badly, but I couldn't let myself even think it might be happening. And it was too early to test. On NYE, I noticed that I also could not stand the smell or taste of alcohol. On January 2 (same day as @smsaulino!) I took the test my friend had given me and it turned positive immediately! I keep trying to give the tampons to other friends and they all know the story and won't accept!

DanyTargaryen · April 2018

magnolia209 said:

I keep trying to give the tampons to other friends and they all know the story and won't accept!

Actual LOL at my desk right now.

sarah-ruby-21 · April 2018

jhjocelyn Holy crap, that was one bad day you had!

IDK if mine is ironic or just plain odd, but the day after I found out I was pregnant (and kept it to myself) my daughter pointed to my belly and sang, "There's a baby in your belly!" over and over again. I had not even told my husband. She also went to daycare and told everyone there the same. I had to lie and deny it because I was not ready to announce. Crazy girl! Maybe she should pick lotto numbers for us.

klj0228 · April 2018

I love reading your stories! Was certain I wasn’t pregnant and it was time to go to a fertility specialist. Definitely no foreshadowing on my positive. Had so many negatives prior I just knew it wasn’t going to happen.

sclarke7 · April 2018

@starla your story gave me goosebumps! what a great " sign "
TW* loss
After trying for a while with the help of an RE/meds we finally got pregnant in November 2017. I miscarried mid December 2017 ( CP ). We had decided to book and pay for an IUI in January to try to increase our chances. Christmas was very rough. New years eve I decided to get it together. Have a shower, put on some makeup and try to be normal for MH. We had a nice night just a date night at home with appys and drinks, some laughs and tears too ( for me ). Both of us hadn't been in the mood lately and he had been so good to me last few weeks I thought well might as well give him some lovin ( wine talking here ). I went to bed with this intense feeling of: " everything is going to be ok".Prob the wine a bit but I remember very vividly an intense feeling of a weight lifted off my shoulders, and a sense of peace and calm
Jan 16th I got a BFP, and called to cancel the IUI with shakey hands just hoping with all I had that this would be it for us.

magnolia209 · April 2018

@sclarke7 That's a really beautiful story. I love that you know your baby was conceived on a special night. And, that it happened so soon after a loss.

lisac113 · April 2018

TW: I had a miscarriage the year prior and couldn't get pregnant again. Being 35, my doctor started testing me and DH after 6 months.

DH had a sperm analysis done and the fertility clinic recommended that if my HSG test came back fine, to start the process for an IUI based on his sperm analysis. My HSG test was fine. My doctor said my fertility chances should increase, but by this point I had moved on to us needing an IUI and we had already had an initial appointment at the fertility clinic. I ended up pregnant the month of the HSG test.

arcticseal-2 · April 2018

klj0228 said:

I love reading your stories! Was certain I wasn’t pregnant and it was time to go to a fertility specialist. Definitely no foreshadowing on my positive. Had so many negatives prior I just knew it wasn’t going to happen.

This for us too! Except we did see a fertility specialist for the first 3.

Wishilivedinflorida · April 2018

Not quite as fun as @magnolia209’s tampon story, but I had *just* stocked up on tampons prior to BFP. Said tampons remain unopened. Do tampons expire?

magnolia209 · April 2018

@Wishilivedinflorida haha! I have the same question! I now have all of my friend's tampons plus all of my tampons! I can't imagine that they expire so fast that we can't use them next year...but I really really don't know.

stothi · April 2018

I have no idea if they expire but I've been kissing them like they aren't. (Obviously I mean when not pregnant or pp.)

southernlady07 · April 2018

Re: tampons - I had also just stocked up in early December (of course hoping I wouldn’t need to use them!) I didn’t have a period for two years with my first (pregnant + breastfeeding), so I decided to donate the boxes a couple weeks ago to one of our students collecting feminine hygiene products for women in need overseas. I believe homeless shelters may also take them if you are interested in donating.

AFM: *TW family member loss mentioned* My Uncle who I was close to passed away unexpectedly in October. I was tracking my cycles and charting because we were actively TTC, and the night after I ovulated in December, I had vivid dreams about him and woke up the next morning feeling like it was a sign. 9 days later I got my BFP

stothi · April 2018

stothi said:

I have no idea if they expire but I've been kissing them like they aren't. (Obviously I mean when not pregnant or pp.)

Lol!!! Oh my gosh, uh... So I don't kiss my tampons. I don't have a weird tampon kissing fetish. I meant "use." I use them like they don't expire.
Whoa, typos/autocorrect, thanks for that.

starla · April 2018

@stothi I was wondering about that... haha

nackie · April 2018

@stothi I was trying to figure out how to tell you that you’ve been using them all wrong

stothi · April 2018

@nackie something like this?

klj0228 · April 2018

@stothi I was wondering too, and initially thought she doesn’t mean “kissing” but could not fathom what word autocorrected to that. Then I thought well she must really love tampons!

stothi · April 2018

@klj0228 for some reason my atuo complete on the app is glitchy AF! It's so weird. I don't have problems on any other app/site. Just this one. So when I tap on the word suggests for auto complete sometimes I get a word and sometimes I get a crazy mush of nonsense. My Swype suggestions are ridiculous too. It takes me forever to check over my posts to look for errors. Sometimes I forget and sometimes when I try to correct things it erases half the word next to it and adds a few random letters to the word I'm working on. It's frustrating and makes me look dumber than I am. I'm fairly dumb all on my own, so I really don't need the extra help, lol.

stothi · April 2018

klj0228 said:

@stothi I was wondering too, and initially thought she doesn’t mean “kissing” but could not fathom what word autocorrected to that. Then I thought well she must really love tampons!

Maybe that's my FFC? I really LOVE tampons!!!! Lol.

klj0228 · April 2018

@stothi now that is the kind of confessions / secrets we are looking for. lol

[Deleted User] · April 2018

@stothi omg I am right there with you and the autocorrect hatred. I mean really. Takes me twice as long to re-correct the garbage nonsense! I do try deleted as many things as I can find that are obvious errors it has added to my dictionary, but it's never wnough!

sarah-ruby-21 · May 2018

Kissing tampons? Hmmm... I pictured @stothi kissing them in a F U sort of way - like "Take that tampons, I won't need you until September!"

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