6DPO today

Yesterday I didn't update here because there wasn't much to write about. My temp was still in the 36.4/5 range (slight dip from the previous two days back down to 36.4), and I had a very quiet day as far as any signs or symptoms go. The usual backache, tiredness, weepiness, irritability, hungry thing that I've been having pretty much since I ovulated, but not much else. A very NON-crampy day, and today has been much the same until early this evening. I've been mildly crampy since then.

But this morning my temp was 36.8!!!! That's a HUGE jump - my chart looks so weird now, hehe! Now I'm very interested to see if it stays up in that range for the next couple of days and shows a triphasic pattern. My usual window for implantation is between 4DPO and 7DPO (never had implantation outside of that window, for all 12 (!!) conceptions), so I'm right in that window at the moment. I wondered yesterday if the little dip in my temp could be implantation, but I think it's probably too small a dip? Anyway, the jump in temp this morning could confirm that, if I do turn out to be pregnant.

My hormones are wacky, whatever the cause! I feel soooo much like I have PMS, which I am not used to, because even if I get a taste of that for real before a period, it's usually pretty mild. Also this has been going on since ovulation. Yesterday I was tidying the living room while the boys were at the park with Neil and Benjamin played on the floor, and I looked out of the window and saw a little girl of about 6 on a new pink bike, and her Daddy was pushing it along and teaching her soooo carefully and lovingly how to ride it, and I just started to cry! Now, granted, that IS a tear-jerking sight, but I never actually cry at these things. I get a warm feeling in my heart and maybe a lump in my throat at most, and just think, "Awww!" Not sobbing away looking for a hanky to blow my nose on! I was only thinking a couple of weeks ago that I actually can't remember the last time I cried about something I was sensitive over or feeling sad about, apart from in prayer when God burdens my heart in some way, but that's different. I don't know when else I've ever been able to say that. I'm just SO HAPPY with my life right now! :)

Yesterday I was so so so tired out. Today I was able to go to bed when Benjamin napped and slept three hours!!! What a luxury mothers of only one napping child have when tired and pregnant!!! I forgot quite how luxurious it is, even if it's not much napping time. When I only had one child, he happened to be a horrendous napper and would only take a couple of VERY unpredictable 30-minute naps a day, so I never got to rest then either! ;) So anyway, I feel a lot better this afternoon, for the extra sleep.

I have had some random EWCM today, but not much. I haven't even bothered to chart it, because really it was only that one time when I noticed it, and the rest of the day it hasn't been EWCM. Also, if I do chart it, I will get that annoying dotted red crosshair line on my chart because it can't fathom why I'd have EWCM after ovulating. *sigh* So I won't! I have more CM than usual still.

I have increased appetite enough to chart it, but not ridiculously so. I'm not scrunching with hunger all the time, but I am hungry before mealtimes consistently through the day, even if my previous meal was a good one. And nibbly all evening too...

Hmmm, what else? Oh tender breasts today! Well, one of them anyway, lol! ;) That's of note for me, since I don't remember it being something I have this early in my LP normally, but who knows. I guess it could be if I am only going to have a couple more days in my LP this cycle.

I really have felt so neutral these last couple of days! I am feeling crampy this evening but only mildly. This afternoon though, I was lying in bed breastfeeding Benjamin and noticed a crampy sensation while he was feeding, which I think I mentioned the last two cycles during my LP. Then the next time I was lying down to feed him, I had a weird sensation that interested me - like the tickly feeling of an insect running along my pubic bone! I know, weird. It was a tingly tickly sensation, more inside than outside on the surface, but a very strong sensation. That is definitely something familiar from very early in my previous pregnancies - tingly/tickly sensations along my pubic bone, that is. For me, they carry on for several weeks after this kind of stage, but not all the time.

I've had mild heartburn in the early evening today and yesterday. Oh and I'm really constipated. Yeurgh. Just these last few days, and I do wonder if it could account for some of the discomfort that I've been feeling, because I guess it's hard to tell miiild crampiness apart from that kind of discomfort since it's very close together! ;) Sorry for the TMI! But it's just as bad as it was, and I had a couple of days without many cramps, and then today I'm noticing cramps again, so I don't think I'm confusing it. Hopefully that will get better soon! I do get really constipated in the 1st trimester, but it's probably too early for it to be pregnancy-related. I think? I'm still gassy and bloated as I was before. Maybe a little less horribly though? Aren't I painting such a LOVELY picture?! ;)

Well I think that's it. No more run-ins with twin girls, haha! ;) I'm excited about this cycle and beginning to wonder if it could really be true that I might be pregnant this cycle! Yesterday felt so neutral that I lost my "calm and sure" feeling and started to think I probably wasn't pregnant and maybe that "very likely" conception had even failed already - many do in the first few days. Anyway, I will see what my temp is in the morning, and chart it as soon as I'm able. Thanks for the comments! Annie, I DID do something to my comments box! But I can't remember what! I'm glad it means you're able to comment though - hooray! :)