Am I pregnant or is my body just weird AF"
by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting
Am I pregnant" Or is my period just late"
Answer: Who knows" BUT I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.
This has happened every time my husband and I have tried to conceive -- except for our first child, when we were "not preventing but not actively trying," (I didn't even think to test until I was already eight weeks pregnant.) But, for babies two and three, I started peeing on a stick two weeks after my predicted ovulation window. All with big, fat negatives.
The day I was supposed to start my period came and went. Still, negative tests. I think it was a good five or six days after my missed period that I finally got a squint-until-you-sorta-see-it line.
My menstrual cycle sometimes lasts longer than average ? 30 to 33 days, instead of 28 ? so that probably has something to do with it. But it's still maddening as hell. Especially when the "early result" tests claim to detect pregnancy "up to six days before your missed period" but I keep churning out minuses until six days after my missed period. That dreaded "two-week wait" is more like a four-week wait for me. Ugh.
And don't even get me started on early symptoms of pregnancy, which are nearly identical to premenstrual symptoms: Mood swings, abdominal bloating, fatigue. Yep, yep and yep. So WHY IS THIS TEST STILL NEGATIVE OR WHY HAVEN'T I STARTED BLEEDING YET"!
Still, I buy another pack of pregnancy tests -- hopeful that this tim...
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