I had a headache last night when I went to bed, and thought maybe it meant my period was coming. But this morning my temp was still up there! 36.72, a bit lower than yesterday but still well up! Tested with first morning urine, though I really had to work on holding it in the night, from 4am onwards - REALLY needed to wee. Very unusual for me! :) The test was negative, but I felt SURE I could see a shadowy greyish line. Then I thought not, but when I got yesterday's test and held them together, there was more of a shadow on today's test than yesterday's. Still negative though - I can't even photograph it to show anything, so I'm just being crazy-obsessoo woman (I hate the new spell correct that WON'T allow me to type the word crazy-obsess0 with one 'o'!!!! Tsk!).
My headache was gone when I woke, but it started up again this morning after I'd been up an hour or two. Mild and dull and nagging in my eyes, temples and neck - could be sinusy or dehydration though. It has bothered me mildly (not a bad headache at all) on and off through the day and is hanging around now. I've noticed I'm having to blow my nose quite a bit (not that there's much to blow) since about 2DPO, maybe 3DPO - I kept forgetting to mention it, but when I read in previous pregnancy chart comments that I had this mildly snotty nose a lot before, I knew it was significant to mention! :)
I'm tired tonight. Exactly like yesterday (which was an improvement on the days before), my energy levels are not bad, but I generally feel fatigued, and quite dizzy/white-out-y with it at times. We had snow today, so I was happily distracted with getting the children in and out of snow clothes much of the day! ;) I feel irritable, but strangely calm in some of the ways I've been handling difficulties with the boys today (this was true yesterday too) - maybe someone is praying for me? :)
Not so much pain today. When I was first up this morning, I only felt mildly crampy, and that's all. I have charted backache, but really it has only been occasional and very mild. I'm not charting bad cramps today, for the first time in a few days, although I did have some mild periody pain at times, and again this evening. I considered charting bad cramps, but it just wasn't quite bad enough, so I haven't. Still definite crampiness though. I have an almost prickly hot sensation in the pit of my abdomen that I feel almost out to my hips on both sides. Odd, that one! Not unpleasant, just... different. I also noticed this evening when I was curled up on the sofa hugging my knees, that I had a sensation of a definite "ball of something" like a pressure deep inside. NOT like constipation, but... similar, somehow. I know what it is - I've felt it many times before. I'm just noting it here to say I'm feeling it. :) I've charted one-sided pinching cramp, but I guess that's not accurate either - I've had the odd sharp twinge or flash of pain in my pubic bone to the right side, or inside my right hip and inch or so above my pubic bone, but that's it. The closest description on the check boxes on my chart was the one-sided pinching cramp one, so I charted it. This is the same kind of pattern that I have had with my other pregnancies when implantation is taking place - a few days in a row of cramps/twinges, etc. then it all calms down. I have had times today when I've felt very "neutral" like nothing is happening. Again, this was how I described things in many of my pregnancies at this kind of stage - I think I wrote exactly this at 7 and 8DPO with Lydia...
My breasts are tender today, more so than before (but so far just achy, rather than those pregnant "flashes" of sharp pain), and I am DEFINITELY sore when breastfeeding today. It's worse than yesterday, which was the first day it made me sit up and take notice. Very uncomfortable after only a few seconds of feeding someone. Something new that I can't remember if I mentioned yesterday, is the nursing aversion thing that started the day before yesterday, where I feel extremely irritable towards the nursling in question, and like my skin is crawling if it goes on too long. This is VERY pregnant of me. It's much worse today than it was yesterday. I can't BEAR them fidgeting about or putting their hands anywhere on my breasts while they are feeding. I have pushed little hands away a LOT today, and turned down requests for milky once or twice just because I didn't want to - which never happens normally.
I am queasy, and still windy. Not quite so bad in the gassy department as recent days, but still bothersome. I am also really bloated and my appetite isn't so great because of it. This evening/late afternoon I felt more queasy than in the day - the strangest feeling was that I felt like that would be the case. It feels a LITTLE like very mild morning sickness to me, the travel queasy feeling. I hope not, as I would only be 3 weeks and 2 days today, WAY too early for me to start that! :/ Makes me very anxious about how things will be at 6 weeks, if so! I have continued to feel gaggy various times during the day - Elijah's pooey nappy, the thought of certain foods a couple of times, Lydia's pooey nappy (the smell, urrrghhh!), the nappies waiting to go out to the outside bin, saliva (someone's chewed top), even just the THOUGHT of the saliva smell later. Bleurgh. This is totally totally totally pregnancy, for me. No way it's anything else, no matter how this turns out. Preg. Nant. That's me right now. ;)
I have had a little heartburn this evening which, though I have issues with GERD, I don't really get much any more as an isolated symptom. I found United Bates of America on YouTube tonight, for the first time, and watched the first episode which featured a new baby, and various lovely large family inter-relationships, and I got very weepy watching it, which is not that usual for me - this is why I have a box to check on my chart if I ever get weepy like this, lol! It's very pregnant of me! ;)
I was in the bathroom this afternoon and went to get something out of the medicine cabinet, where I've hidden my pregnancy tests that I've taken so far. I can never bear to throw them away until I get my period and KNOW it's a closed book. Anyway, I pulled them out again, even though it had been HOURS and so it was pointless looking at them. With them both now fully dry (only yesterday's was, this morning), today's DOES look like there's a shade of colour to the line-that-would-be-the-pregnant-line, against the white of the test stick. Compared with yesterday's which has absolutely no shade of any sort. It's so slight that it's more of a grey hue, so definitely a negative test. Because there's a difference from yesterday though, however slight, I'm wondering... I'm not at ALL wondering if maybe I'm pregnant - there's no doubt about it with the way I'm feeling. I just wonder if the hormone levels are okay, and therefore will I even get a proper positive test, or are my levels already falling and I'll get my period soon? It's so early to have such obvious symptoms while nothing shows up on a test stick, so as the days go by, if I still don't have my period and the tests stay negative, it will be a bit confusing. I presume that will be to do with a non-viable pregnancy, if so...
I know what I forgot to do! Neil was so tired tonight after work (he has such a long commute to drive now) that he went to bed while I was putting the littlest ones to bed. At 8DPO I could have asked him to check the skin on my face to see if I have "weirdly soft skin" - he's my expert! ;) That has been my unique, classic pregnancy sign for all my pregnancies, that he has been able to confirm before a test stick could! :) Awkward to say this, but now that I'm getting older, I think my skin is softening as it's not so firm as it once was (read: wrinkling!), and so it might be harder to tell if it's "weirdly soft" or "wrinkly soft", haha! ;) Now that I have written this, and thought to stop and stroke my own cheeks, I personally think they feel VERY much "weirdly soft" to me, not just "wrinkly soft" any more. I am going to change the subject now! :P Except that I'm frustrated to have only remembered the skin sign JUST NOW while writing this, and Neil will be off to work before I'm awake in the morning. I am going to chart weirdly soft skin - checking it again, it's suuuuper soft.... just like when I've been pregnant before. If Neil disagrees tomorrow I will delete it off my chart, but I am sure he will agree.
So now it just remains to do exactly the same thing as the last few nights. Go to bed, try to sleep (I had more wakings with the little ones in the wrong zone - near to my waking time) but managed to be asleep for a little bit before waking and temping, and I kept warm enough and wasn't mouth breathing, so that was good! I am always so anxious to have the right conditions for temping when I'm at a stage in my cycle where everything is hanging on what the temperature is that very day!! If my temp is still around where it is today, or hasn't dropped too far down, I will test again - NINE days past ovulation tomorrow, I can't believe it! I never dreamed that I'd get that far into my luteal phase this cycle, pregnant or not, after a 4 day luteal phase!!! :) Even if I get my period tomorrow, I will have had an 8 day luteal phase, which is great! :) I'm sure it's because I'm pregnant, and it would have been much shorter without that factor.
This is so exciting!! I'm still continually prepared to see my temp drop every morning, and to get my period. I will update my chart in the morning, and my blog later when I can (evening, likely).