[bbackstrom]

Hello Mommies and Mommies-to-be!

I have been "googling" like crazy the past few days!
My fiance and I are doing the NFP method but we both know that within due time, we can't wait to have a baby together (I have one, he has two little ones...). We try to watch the ovulation calendar ...but you know how that goes lades lol. AND...here I am.

I need help and advice! I'm going absolutely bonkers!
Just in the course of the last few days I've learned SO MUCH because I'm googling my "symptoms" like crazy! I now know what 2ww, bfn, bfp, and all sorts of accronyms lol!

SO, my AF is due 10/2/2011. (26 day cycle, pretty regular). This past Friday 9/23/2011 I began to have cramps just like AF. Here we are 9/27/2011 and I still have cramps! They low, almost always there but very dull, but last night it was pretty intense and had to take something to dull the aching so I could sleep. I also am having some back pain as well. I have NEVER, ever never ever had cramps before my AF! SO...5 days into cramping I'm sitting here going BONKERS !!!! This is SO unlike me, I'm pretty intune to my body, and I've never experienced this! I have no other symptoms (kinda wish I did) to go off of. Just AF cramps but no AF and too early!

I'm planning on getting my AF on Sunday because I feel I've driven myself crazy, lol and I'm having WAAAAY too much false hope! I had a bfn on Sunday and today. I'm secretly bummed because reading all these gals who have had these mysterious cramps- are now celebrating their BFP!!!! I have some extra HPT's I'm going to try...and I realize I am now officially a POAS addict! AAAAAAAAAAH!

But please, ladies.....................someone tell me, have you experienced this? I don't have sore bbs (is that booobies? idk LOL) however, I can't shake this dull cramping that has been in my lower tummy for the past...eeek 5 days!!!! ALSO....I rationalized it to be that maybe my body is deceiding to create new PMS symptoms I've never had before. But wouldn't that be rare? NORMALLY (which is ALWAYS) I get cramps RIGHT when my AF starts and it's intense for maaaaaybe two days, that's it! Never experienced cramps prior to my AF ...NOR for this long even if I DID have AF!

I dont know...can anyone share stories with me?
I'd truly appreciate it.....my fiance and I are both having the baby itch and in his heart he believes I may be pregnant! Holy MOLY! But God is good either way!

Thank you SO much! can't wait to be an active part of my first message board community ever!

[SammyJ]

I could have written almost this entire post! lol. My husband and I recently started NFP too, and went off birth control at the end of August. However, I still haven't gotten my period yet, which I know is not uncommon after coming off the pill. However, I also found that I have been cramping like crazy! So bad to the point where I just know AF is going to be here, but she never shows. WTH??

I am honestly so confused. I took an HTP last Thursday, but got a negative. Going to wait until this Thursday to try again. I have also been googling the cramping, which could mean pregnancy. However, I am also starting to think the cramping might just be ovulating, which I rarely used to cramp before during O before I was on the pill. Who knows though! It is so frustrating.

We aren't necessarily trying for a baby just yet. In fact, we are technically waiting to start in the spring. However, I wouldn't be upset if we got pregnant now. Anyway, long story short, I can't really give you the outcome yet of what it might be, but I'll keep you posted! Good luck to you!

[Mom.to.PinknBlue]

I wish I had any stories or advice, but I hope you get your bfp soon.