Whats going on with me so far...

Hi again :)

I thought I'd give you some info about what's been happening since we decided to try for another little bubba (or new addition to our mad house either one) I've also put up some of my history on the right :)

Now I must warn you all before you read this or any other post. There will be a lot of 'ewww' moments in my blog posts (I am TTC remember) so instead of writing "sorry 'tmi" all the time I'm just going to put it out there now that most of my posts will contain TMI. So please do read on but know that I'm not going to put 'tmi' after everything I write :)

Also for those of you who aren't yet as obsessed as me and aren't sure of the TTC lingo I've put a little cheat sheet on the right for you to refer to. Really I'm just lazy so don't want to type out all the words ;)

So I finished my birth control pill at the end of my cycle around the 20th December 2011 (here comes the ewwww parts) and went on 'fertility' mode. Thanks to smart phones I downloaded 5 different apps relating to fertility, ovulation, pregnancy and period tracking....all of which told me that I would be fertile and ovulate on a different day - helpful!! But then 2 weeks later (around 2nd Jan 2012) I started to have what looked like a small period. It increased to a mid-heavy then light bleeding and finished up around 4 days later. Now this is where I got confused. I had NO idea when/if I had ovulated and if I was experiencing a mid cycle bleed, an ovulation bleed (some facts on that to come later) or another period. So I kept tracking my fertile days on the basis that it was just bc I came off the pill and therefore I could of been pregnant. Of course this was my 'wishful thinking' self and convincing myself of something that I knew wasn't the case. After a few trips to the doctor and about a bazillion BFN HPT's later we figured out that because I came off the pill my body got confused and made me have a period two weeks later (facts on coming off birth control to come later) which means that I ovulated two weeks later than I thought. My AF DD was yesterday. These are my symptoms so far:

• Cramping
• Bloating
• Nausea
• Pulling feeling
• Small amount of pinkish tinge in my CM on my AF DD
• BB's large and sore (DH likes the large part but doesn't get to enjoy them due to the sore part)
• Fatigue (I do however have 2 children, 3 if you include the DH, so I have fatigue all the time)

Most of the above symptoms are what I usually have right around the time that I get AF so I cant be sure that they are even relevant. And I do feel like AF is on her way. Isn't it funny how every single symptom that we get we are so sure its got to be due to pregnancy. I honestly think that we can think so hard about the symptoms that we make ourselves have them. I'm sure I've had nausea since 20th Dec! :)

So that's where I'm at.

In my upcoming blog posts I'll be talking about symptoms, signs, coming off birth control, ovulation bleeding, ovulation dates, implantation bleeding and more.

If there's anything you want to ask please feel free to comment below and I'll do my best to help you sort out fact from fiction.

Thanks for reading and baby dust to all of you trying! (on every forum everyone says baby dust so thought I may as well do the same)

Mandi O xxx