Is This Implantation Bleeding?!
May 9, 2008 at 12:26 pm (Trying to Conceive)
Tags: mothers, Trying to Conceive, pregnancy, ttc, fertility, irregular periods, implantation, bleeding
Well, today is day 26 of my current menstrual cycle and I am experiencing cramps and light pink/brown spotting. Now, at day 26, it seems far too early for my period to be here as I haven’t had a cycle that lasted less than 33 days for a very long time.
We haven’t tried very hard this month, which must seem strange considering the fact that I’ve felt so desperate to get pregnant. But we’ve been busy and my husband has had a stressful time at work, as well as being away overnight on business a few times. I suppose this month I just took a laidback approach to it and have almost just discounted it and let us off the hook. On Sunday however, I did wonder if I was ovulating (I won’t go into the details of why I thought this!!), so we thought we would try just in case.
If I was right about ovulating on Sunday, that would mean that I am roughly 5 or 6 days past ovulation which, if I have researched correctly, could possibly be the time that implantation takes place. I could be absolutely imagining the whole thing, or I could have it all wrong, but things certainly are different this month.
I don’t know if it’s related but last night I had the most awful stomach ache through the night, and I thought I was going to be sick. I’m not one to experience stomach upsets but maybe it was something I ate - I’m fine now though.
It’s funny that I was pretty much writing this month off, and now I’m getting noticable symptoms that make me get my hopes up! Well, at least I haven’t been obsessing over symtoms this time, so if it happens this month, it will really be amazing!
preconceivednotions said,
May 10, 2008 at 8:36 am
In two out of five pregnancies I had implantation bleeds and close to when AF should have come
. Once was many years ago and was living on my own after a breakup and I was getting a checkup because I was changing relationships and didn’t want to pass on any probs. IT was about the time AIDS came on the scene AND I was being OR trying to be responsible. The doc said ‘YOU’RE PREGNANT!
I was in shock.
The second time ( two years ago) I was in a highly stressful living situation,45 and first thought menopause. I had also just gone to my nieces wedding and wasn’t paying all that much attention until a week or so later when I REALLY started to feel pregnant.
And the timing you speak of, it very well could be an implantation bleed.
For me, it was not a bleeding like coming out on it;s own but when i wnt potty and it would be on the tp. And old brown or very light pink. It also only last a few days off and on.
Hope that helps and sorry for all the information (TMI)