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After an 8 year battle with infertility and countless struggles, our family is finally complete. This blog chronicles the journey it took for us to start and build the family we always wanted. Background on the blog (started in 2012, just days before I found out the embryo transfer for our son worked).... I decided to start a blog after realizing I have only been able to make it through my TWW's (two week waits) with the help of Google and with the openness of other women suffering from infertility sharing their own stories and giving others hope. I have time and time again found my exact symptoms on other women's blogs and felt an overwhelming sense of calmness they provided me. I thought it was time to pay it forward and hopefully provide this same thing to other women on their own journeys.
Showing posts with label cramps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cramps. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2016

12dp6dt - Symptoms & HPTs

Being daring and switching blog titles from days post transfer to weeks pregnant.   I know things could still happen, but TODAY I am pregnant.  So I am going to enjoy the moment!!!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night - peed once - cramps after.

Morning - Tongue scraper blood.

Mid-day - Tired

Afternoon - Uterine tweaks

Evening - More tweaks during dinner.  Slightly nauseous.  Tired.  Tongue scraper blood.


HPTS:
12dp6dt new curved frer (almost the same darkness as the control line):

Comparing 11dpt and 12dpt new curved frer:

Did 3 wondfos (all three bottom ones dipped in the same pee):

Saturday, July 11, 2015

10dp5dt - Symptoms

I haven't POASed since 8dp5dt!  I should win a self control award!  I am also going to make my brother $5 richer and my uncle $5 poorer.  They took a bet about whether or not I'd cave and POAS.  Well, as of right now I have a ton of resolve to wait and see what beta #2 is!  If it's good (which I am praying for), maybe I'll pee then just to see a dark FRER!

Symptoms:

Middle of the night:  Cramps after peeing, vivid dream (about Adam Lambert being my BFF)

Morning:  Pulling right side

Noon: Nothing really

Afternoon: Bloated, nauseated (tho my son has a fever so who knows if a bug is going around, I hope my nausea is baby related!)   Napped.

Evening: Not really veiny.  No blood after tongue scraper.


Friday, July 10, 2015

9dp5dt - HPTs

Symptoms:

Middle of the night:  Cramps after getting up to pee.

Morning:  Right uterine pulls for about 10 seconds in the car.

Beta #1 blood drawn at 9:00am.

Lunch:  Some right side uterine pulls during my walk.

Bedtime: Blood when using tongue scraper

I've also been keeping a secret.........


I had my first beta drawn 35 minutes ago at 9am.  It won't be QUITE 9dp5dt for the result as that is 5 hours before my transfer time.  So it's not technically 9dp5dt until 2:15 today!

Needless to say, I'm a nervous wreck given my history:

Pregnancy #1: Chemical
Pregnancy #2: Victor!!!
Pregnancy #3: Blighted Ovum
Pregnancy #4: ????????????   Please God let this be baby #2!!!!!

See next post for the beta result!!!!

Thursday, July 9, 2015

8dp5dt - Symptoms

Symptoms:

Morning:  Brown spotting, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe a full uterine pulls here and there while getting ready for work.   No veins / no blood when using tongue scraper.

9:30:  A few right sided pinches during my stand up meeting.  Tiiiiiiiiiny cramps now that I'm sitting after the meeting.

10:45:  More brown spotting.

Noon:  Tiny cramps.   Walked, a full tugs while walking.

Afternoon:  Feel normal.

3:00:  Hungry.  Small headache.

After work:  Right boob hurt for about 5 minutes.

Evening:  Brown spotting.   Blood after tongue scraper.  Constipation gone (next morning too)....think it's from nerves for beta #1.


Wednesday, July 8, 2015

7dp5dt - Symptoms

Symptoms:  

Early morning: Vivid dream (non sex, in fact I cried in my dream - work related).   Constipation.  Bloat is gone.  No veiny boobs.   No cramps.   Ughhhh.   It's going to be a looooooong day if these symptoms don't start up soon.   Blood when using the tongue scraper (I pushed pretty hard tho). 

Mid morning:  Mayyyyyybe a few uterine pulls?  Definitely not feeling as much as I did in the previous days.

Afternoon:  Nothing

Driving home from work:  A few cramps

Walk after work:  Side right boob hurt for about 20 seconds.

Evening: Brown spotting, veiny chest (gone by morning)

Overall:  Not bloated at all really today like I have been the past days.  This makes me worry.   My general lack of symptoms today makes me worried.  Being alive makes me worry.




Tuesday, July 7, 2015

6dp5dt - Symptoms

Symptoms:

Early morning: cramps when I woke up, cramps sometimes when I move, super bloated, constipated, a few twinges here and there

Mid morning: A few tiny pinches ~9am.  Nothing really after, maybe a little bloated?  Went for a walk with a friend, crampy and bloated during the walk.

Noon/afternoon:  nothing really, a little bloat.  Starting to freak that I feel mostly normal!

Drive home from work:  pinching - finally something!   Thirst?

After work - Tiiiiiiiiny bit of brown spotting.

Evening - Cramps during dinner, I think I'm starting to get veiny boobs (weren't veiny at all on a second look)?   Definitely thirsty.


Monday, July 6, 2015

5dp5dt - Symptoms


Symptoms:

Middle of the night:  vivid dream (not sex related tho), cramps in the middle of the night

Morning: Constipated (lovely), tiny cramps to start, bigger cramps later in the morning

Walk during lunch yielded some tugging and pinching.

Afternoon:  Bloated.  Super DUPER bloated.   I seriously look 12 weeks pregnant.  lol   That only lasted an hour or so, now I'm just regular bloated.

Evening walk:  Bloated.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

4dp5dt - Symptoms


Symptoms:

~7am - Woke up to a sex dream.   Maybe it's a symptom?   Maybe I'm just repressed.  Lol.  It wasn't super vivid but still hoping it's a good sign.

~ 9am - Super duper bloated.

~10am - Maybe a few pulls when moving in the uterus?    Please let this be it!

11:45am -  Thirsty?  I did take a walk this morning so I'm probably just thirsty since I haven't really had much to drink since we've been back!   Bloating mostly gone.

1:11pm - Feeling completely normal and 100% losing my mind.  I checked my past symptom lists and the only time I ever had bloating resulted in a BFN.  :(

Evening - Cramps, weird uneasy feelings in stomach, acne on chin and a little on chest

Middle of the night - Cramps, twinges, pulls


Saturday, July 4, 2015

3dp5dt - Symptoms?

Today was the day I was watching for symptoms like a hawk.   Nothing.   Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe one little pang on the lower right side that happened a few times in the span of 10 seconds.  I should note I had weird ovarian pangs before the embryo transfer as well so who knows.   I think I had cramps (teeeeeeeeeny tiny ones) in the night between 3dp and 4dp transfer.