I need your opinions

MountainMomma · #1 July 6th, 2007, 09:18 AM

I'm cross posting this is Trying To Conceive.

OK, I posted yesterday (on the TTC board) that I got my AF. Well, now I'm not sure. I considered it flow. It was red, and I needed a pad. Key word being A. Within 3 hours, it was gone. Today.....nothing yet. Not even spotting. Was it AF or was it something else? Could it have been late IB? And could IB be heavy enough that I would need a pad? I didn't fill it. Might have even been able to get away with a panty liner instead of an actual pad. Should I keep that as light flow on my chart (making yesterday CD1) or should I change it to spotting (in which case I would be on CD 30)? I'm so freaking confused!

4 Butterflies · #2 July 6th, 2007, 10:19 AM

I would mark it spotting but with that huge temp drop I wonder if AF will be coming. I hope it was IB but you are like 14DPO, kind of late for IB. So I'm not sure sweetie!

MountainMomma · #3 July 6th, 2007, 10:23 AM

I changed it to spotting, I just don't know what to think. Also, several people have questioned my O date, thinking it might be as much as 2 or 3 days later than what FF says. I've tested twice....just wasn't sure if they were extremely faint BFP's or if they were evaps. Now I really don't have a clue!

Also, I'm having EXTREMELY bad gas pains or something. It's not AF cramps. It's more like.........I dunno any other way to say it except it feels like I gotta take a massive poo, but I don't! I know it's gross, sorry. That's the only way I can think of to describe it though.

NutMeg76 · #4 July 6th, 2007, 10:43 AM

THat is a little weird. It could be AF making a slow appearance. Or if you go by my original theory of CD 19 as O day, than it is 11 DPO and perfect timing for IB.

MountainMomma · #5 July 6th, 2007, 11:01 AM

I keep c/p back and forth between here and TTC because it's easier than typing it out both places. I was asked there if I had IB with my first two.

I'm not sure if I had IB or not. I was 17 the first time, and 9 weeks before I realized I was preggers. With my son, I was only 5 weeks, but again, I wasn't really TTC and wasn't paying much attention, so I don't remember.

With my daughter, the first pregnancy, I did have spotting on and off until I was nearly 20 weeks though. Usually with AF if I spot one day and AF doesn't start that same day, then I wake up with her in full force the next day. I've never had it completely disappear like this. Argh! lol

Oh, and I should add that while I haven't eaten anything that normally makes me gassy, I am EXTREMELY gassy the past two or three days. Is that a pregnancy sign?