With my daughter, we weren't even planning. I had gone off the mini pill in March 1997 and was going to start "trying" later that summer. But on April 6 I learned that I was pregnant, and two days later I miscarried. It was called a chemical pregnancy. This saddened me, and all the rest of that month I kept thinking that I should be having a baby in December. Imagine my surprise on May 6, 1997 when I took a home pregnancy test and tested positive!
I took the test, not because I thought I was pregnant, but because I had no premenstrual symptoms, which was highly unusual for me. So I tested! And, believe it or not, my daughter was born five days after the due date of the miscarried baby.
As for the early symptoms of pregnancy with my daughter, I had none. The excessive urination didn't start until the 2nd trimester, and I never had morning sickness. Which proves that each pregnancy is different and sometimes the lack of symptoms can be as good a sign as the presence of symptoms!
Now, onto the journey in conceiving my third child. I armed myself with books on the subject and read every web site I could find about pregnancy. I started trying to conceive child number three in November 1998 and believe that breastfeeding prevented pregnancy. I weaned my daughter in July last year and in August I had another chemical pregnancy. {see http://www.inciid.org for more information on chemical pregnancies} I found this out through charting and testing early.
Now I'm on the journey of conceiving my third child and know that it will happen in due season. It is exciting to be able to share the knowledge I have acquired in this journey and I look forward to each week writing the articles!
For more success stories see: http://tryingtoconceive.com/ - Look under "Site Index" and scroll down to the Success Stories, and http://www.babydata.com/success.htm
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