Maybe Baby?

I haven't been on here for awhile. I spent a lot of time here while TTC and while pregnant with my now 5 month old son. He's perfect and wonderful and I can't believe how much I love him. It was a horrible pregnancy with a lot of scares. We have talked about maybe having another and that we wanted to have one before I turned 35. It took us 5 years to try and I really don't want to spend the rest of my 30's (I'll be 32 on Dec 31) trying again. It was just too hard. But, we figured in a year or so we'd try for another year and then count our blessings either way.

BUT.

We've only had sex twice in the last 2 months. I can't remember exactly when my period in November was but I know that one day of my period fell on the 12th because I have a k-mart receipt from where my wonderful husband went and bought me pads  I can't remember what day it started or ended. I have no idea when I actually O'd because I wasn't tracking. I haven't been breastfeeding since early October and even then I barely was able to at all. We had sex on the 2nd of December and another day around there either a day or two before or after. I had a weird period that lasted for 4 days from the 16th of December through the 19th. It was medium-ish flow, but the weird thing was that it was the same amount from day 1 to day 4 and it wasn't anywhere near as heavy as usual. I usually have to wear several pads to get through the night and even then I sometimes bleed through. Some parts of the days I wasn't bleeding at all except for when wiping. It was bright red and dark red and brown, all at varying times. I didn't think it would be implantation bleeding because I've always heard that not only is it rare, but that it's very light pink or dark brown. I've been nauseous since about a week after we had sex. It happens about an hour after I eat, or, more like it happens if I don't eat every couple of hours. As soon as I eat, I'm fine for an hour or two. No vomiting but I've felt pretty close to it. I've also had really bad diarrhea for about 3 days. I vaguely remember having this when I was pregnant with my son. I took a test around the 15th due to the nausea and fear that I could be pregnant again so soon. It was negative. I'm GUESSING that that would have been around 13 days dpo, but again, I'm not exactly sure when my period was or when I ovulated, if I did at all. I'm also very, very sleepy even though my husband has been letting me sleep for over 9 hours a night! Side bar: he's the best.

I'm testing again tonight. I'm really, really kind of scared. It's so weird to feel this way this time around when I tried so hard to get pregnant before. I guess, I'm just scared that I won't be able to physically handle it so soon after having my son. I had a csection. I'm type 2 diabetic (though it's pretty much completely controlled without any medication or even a strict diet.), and I'm still overweight, though I'm about 30 pounds lighter than when I got pregnant with my son last time and I lost weight while pregnant.

It sounds a bit like you had been pseudo trying since you've been semi tracking your ovulation. If you recently stopped breastfeeding then you could very well just be in limbo waiting for your period to start back up or become regular again. If it's negative and you don't know when to expect it, I'd just wait another week before you test so you're not obsessing over it daily and not wasting a bunch of money on pregnancy tests.

Quoting Red Bottom:" It sounds a bit like you had been pseudo trying since you've been semi tracking your ovulation. If you ... [snip!] ... wait another week before you test so you're not obsessing over it daily and not wasting a bunch of money on pregnancy tests."

Very possible. My periods weren't always very regular before getting pregnant anyhow. Also, the only reason I think I might have ovulated then is by going back and trying to guess when periods and such happened and using a calculator. I'll probably just take one tonight and then try to forget about it until after the holidays.

Quoting Millsh:" Very possible. My periods weren't always very regular before getting pregnant anyhow. Also, the only ... [snip!] ... happened and using a calculator. I'll probably just take one tonight and then try to forget about it until after the holidays. "

If it was just negative, even if you were pregnant, with doubling hcg you'd get a line so faint that you'd be driving yourself crazy trying to figure out whether or not you saw a line. Seriously, save yourself the stress and wait a week.

Stomach virus!