Definitely positive!!!

I peed on another stick today and it had a slightly darker positive line!!!

Guess it's time to call my midwife.

My husband and I haven't decided if we're going to tell the family tomorrow at Christmas dinner or not.

My breasts are felling less sore and more full and swollen.  Also having some abdominal twinges.

Special stocking stuffer

Okay, so my husband said that at midnight we could open our stockings.  I slipped the pregnancy test I took earlier this evening into his along with this other goodies.  When he pulled it out of the stocking, he was like "not pregnant?"  I said, well, the manufacturer says that any second pink line is a positive...but I'll pee on another stick for you tomorrow.  He said he didn't know how to feel about it, but he went to bed and tossed and turned for awhile.  He's worried, but then so am I which I suppose is perfectly natural.

Pink Line???

Sooo....I had two cocktails at my birthday party and didn't drink at my husband's party the night after.  (That's right, our birthdays are one after the other.)  And I've had a few cups of coffee this week.  All of this is important because I've been feeling a little off this week. My breasts are still sore and I had some very slight almost cramp-like twinges in my abdomen today.  And for two night my stomach has been upset in the late evenings.

So, taking all of this into consideration, I tested tonight.  I have the very faintest of pink positive lines!!!  I don't think I'll tell my husband yet.  I think I'll test again in the morning and if I get another positive, THEN I'll tell him.  Sheesh!  I'm glad I didn't pre-pay for my SCUBA lessons.

Also, it's a VERY faint pink line, so it's possible that it's not a true positive.  You be the judge:

Testing...one...two

Tested this morning with negative results.  I've done so many with no extra little pink line, I wonder what I'd do if the second pink line started to fill in.  I'd probably think it was a false positive.

I don't think today's test was absolutely definitive, so I'll test again in a few days (would be nice to be able to tell the family when everyone is gathered for holiday festivities) or perhaps wait to see if I miss my period.

I read an account online of a woman who had unusually tender breasts and thought she was pregnant, but it turned out that she wasn't.  I'm hoping I'm not this time since our vacation is so close and we'd have to worry about scheduling with the midwife in the few short days after the holidays that we have before we leave for Hawaii.

Birthday present?

Well, my breasts have been sore all week. I'm hoping that's a good sign, and
I picked up some more early tests last night. My 30th birthday is tomorrow
and I intend to take a test tomorrow morning because I wanted to have some
cocktails tomorrow night. I probably shouldn't have any cocktails at all
because it'll likely be too early to take a test reliably. How cool would
it be if I tested positive on my birthday?!

But then again, it would put a large kink in our pending vacation plans.
And we wouldn't have the opportunity to try to conceive in Hawaii, which
would also be cool.

In any event, I'll check back in a few days and report.

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Symptoms Unknown

This is, like, day 3 of moderate breast tenderness. It's more severe than
the usual PMS tenderness, but still only noticeable when I prod them. It's
not a general tenderness, either, but seems to be localized around the
nipples. Hmmm.

Also, I had some fatigue yesternight that was unusual.

It's only four days (or possibly six) since I ovulated, so I'm skeptical
that any of these things could be connected to early pregnancy. Surely if
an egg was fertilized, it wouldn't be implanted yet. I'm sure that happens
somewhere around day 10 and only then does your body produce enough HCG to
be detectable or affect physiology.

In any event, I'm on the documentation bandwagon. I estimated my ovulation
to be four days ago based on the length of my most recent cycles. However,
I had a significant change in cervical mucous seven days ago, so I may have
ovulated the day after that, which is why I'm not sure if I really ovulated
six or four days ago. In any event, we didn't have sex very often last week
due to my husband's sinus infection, so it'd be slightly miraculous if we
got lucky.

Also, my husband is going to be so sad if I can't go SCUBA diving in Hawaii!

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I must be nuts!

I'm not feeling too optimistic about our chances this month. My husband has
been suffering with a bad sinus infection, so we were only intimate twice
during my fertile period. We should have used a barrier method of birth
control anyway, since I'm scheduled to be SCUBA certified in a few weeks,
and diving while pregnant isn't recommended because there isn't any data on
how the activity affects a fetus.

I went in for my yearly checkup today and my GP is totally cool. He's grown
a hipster beard and said it was good to see me because I wasn't sick. He's
a keeper!

My mom is a bit of a hippy. For a housewarming gift, she bought me a
Polynesian fertility god carved out of some beautiful dark palm wood. I
actually do keep it in the bedroom, but it's more of a dresser decoration
than anything. When I was younger, cleaning beneath my bed, I found a
crystal. I asked her if she'd lost one and she told me to put it back
because sleeping near a quartz helped align your energies or some such
nonsense. I guess I've inherited a bit of her mysticism because I actually
googled what gemstones to wear to increase fertility and subsequently bought
a set of stacking rings with carnelian, rose quartz and moonstone settings.

We're gearing up for our Hawaii vacation. A few months ago, I was sure we'd
be pregnant by now. But part of me is glad that we're not because it's
going to be a looooooong plane ride and who wants to be all barfy in their
first trimester and have to be stuck on a plane for 10 hours.

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