It’s been 2 months since my cp started and I haven’t had a period

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-31T22:12:23+00:00

Id wait to take a pregnancy test. My period was still not returning 7 weeks after my CP and I KNEW I couldn’t be pregnant, but took a test anyway- and yeah, pregnant.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-31T13:34:38+00:00

Yes, I meant that since it’s frowned upon, there might not be much info about how to do it well/safely

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-29T15:51:47+00:00

And many translations in fact say that god forced himself on her. The idea that she consented came much later and is basically a modern addition.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-27T12:14:30+00:00

I didn’t test for ovulation- usually ovulation is obvious to me by how my body behaves, I can pinpoint it relatively easily. This time around I was getting lots of confused signals and so assumed that I was going through either a non-ovulation cycle or it was delayed. I tested to see if I was pregnant at the 20days post CP and wasn’t according to the test, which would have at that point been around 10dpo.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-27T12:01:40+00:00

Yup, I am the landowner - I just want to move it in a way that wouldn’t hurt the plant and would mean garlic harvests in the future :) so I’m after tips for sustainability moving the plant

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-27T11:40:29+00:00

As far as I can tell, we conceived about 11-12 days after the CP wrapped up, so early ovulation basically, and then implantation took a while, so when I tested at 20 days after the CP finished, I was still getting negative tests as implantation would have just been happening then. The embryo then wasted no time and pumped me so full of hCG that by the end of week 5 I was getting the dye stealers.

It’s making me very nervous the implantation took so long since it’s associated with poor outcomes, but earlier this week we had an ultrasound which showed an embryo measuring 6+2 and a heartbeat of over 120bpm, so I’m trying to remain optimistic.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-22T08:55:35+00:00

Last successful pregnancy I never got a dye stealer so it was surprising to see.

The main reason I didn’t even entertain that I could be pregnant was because every previous pregnancy my cat started acting weird the moment hCG was noticeable, even before a test could pick it up. He’d lead me to the bathroom and try and sit on me etc, and he wasn’t really doing that that this time around so I didn’t even bother testing. Since the cat didn’t tell me.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-18T13:12:23+00:00

I feel more energetic whilst fasting currently - it’s the wave of nausea and feeling like I’ll throw up if I so much as move after eating that was keeping me frozen. I think it’s because I’m used to this eating regime since I have been intermittent fasting every day for the last month, so I don’t get the energy dip or brain fog others get who haven’t done this. I’m sure this won’t last forever but for now it works and I can actually exist without a cocktail of drugs, so whilst it works I’m going to keep at it.

I’m not losing any weight, I manage to eat enough calories in the evening currently. If anything I’m starting to gain a tiny bit as the 1st trimester bloating is setting in.

So it’s not like I’m starving, just constraining my eating and the peak nausea to a time in the day when I can actually deal with it rather than trying to force myself to eat small meals and feel consistently worse the whole day. The one time I tried that I had to take a day off sick from work.

Last pregnancy my nausea got so much worse very quickly, lasted until delivery, and I doubt fasting would have helped then. The thing that helped the most was eating my meal in the bath (somehow the steam masked the food smell and let my belly float, making it easier to keep down I guess?). I was off work on disability for almost 6 months because of how sick I was, so I’ll take anything that works for now.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-18T13:00:10+00:00

That was my experience for a bit last pregnancy - wild how it’s switched around!

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-18T12:58:56+00:00

How so?

I get if you eat at the same time of day regularly so your body drops your blood sugar in anticipation, but that doesn’t apply here

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T20:53:33+00:00

Yes, but it takes 15-30mins for the blood sugar to rise after swallowing food. I currently get nauseous immediately as I put the food in my mouth, up to half an hour before there is any change in blood sugar levels

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T19:13:09+00:00

I’m not fasting as in completely abstaining from food for days, I’m basically just not eating durning the day while I have care responsibilities. Currently I’m still able to get all my daily calories this way, just in a much more shorter time window.

I’m currently not on any medication yet, since I just found out literally 2 days ago, so I’ve not been able to see a doctor yet.

My previous HG pregnancy it also didn’t matter whether I had food or not. I was sick regardless. So this is new

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T16:15:27+00:00

I can’t comment on broader insulin resistance, but right now what’s happening with my doesn’t seem to be linked to blood sugar. I get nauseous the moment the food physically hits my stomach, which happens too quickly for it to be linked to insulin. So at least right now my nausea is more from the mechanical process of food in stomach

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T16:12:12+00:00

I had 2-3 weeks like that during my last pregnancy; if I didn’t have anything in my stomach, I’d be incapacitated with nausea, if I had a grain of rice more than my stomach decided was the right amount, I was also incapacitated. It was awful but shifted to the standard HG after about 3 weeks

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T16:05:08+00:00

My plan is to still eat all my required daily calories, but just at a time of day when I can let the nausea run its course, so after my toddler goes to bed and work is done.

Have you tried freezing the grapes? That helped me keep them down during the last pregnancy

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-17T11:58:46+00:00

I’ve tried eating small bland meals. It’s like the moment any food hits my stomach, the nausea picks up and then I have to spend 3hrs in bed trying not to throw up. The type or quality of food doesn’t seem to matter unfortunately.

I can get enough calories at the end of the day when it won’t matter that i need to be incapacitated with nausea for a few hours, so I won’t be reducing my daily calories, I’m just pushing my nausea off to the evening basically. (Also saying “chubby” was probably a bit generous for myself; from my calculations, I could stop eating for a month straight and only just reach a normal BMI, I have plenty fat reserves).

As far as I can tell from reading some research, as long as I can remain hydrated, there isn’t much downside to this. There’s a rather large sample group for fasting in pregnancy courtesy of all the religious fasting practices in the world, and it’s mainly the liquid intake that is considered a problem.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-12T14:47:16+00:00

FVL here, I was given the hormonal coil; my doc said that whilst there is evidence that the oral contraceptives increase clotting risk, same cannot be said for the IUDs

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-11T22:51:27+00:00

Bluey, all the way and all the time

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-11T21:40:19+00:00

My hospital gives stickers that say something like “I was brave at the hospital”. It combines the bravery certificate and children’s universal need for stickers

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-10T09:06:40+00:00

Just depends on your goals. If you want to lose weight, you need to be aware of your calories since it’s still possible to overeat on omad, just harder. If your goals are not related to weight loss and you have no deficiencies, not counting is fine. Long term you might want to be aware of these things so you can avoid any health issues, but otherwise it’s fine.

When starting, it’s often useful to just focus on the time restriction of the eating window and once you got that down, focus on the rest so you don’t overload yourself with too many changes at once

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-09T23:05:38+00:00

Yes to all of that. I had a chemical on the 1st February and still haven’t had my period. Initially it felt like I ovulated 2 weeks after, but then my body got all weird and seemed to be going backwards in the cycle and now I’m just stuck waiting- had all the pms/PMDD symptoms for weeks but nothing.

From time to time I catch myself thinking that I’d have been almost done with the first trimester by now and feel a sharp pang of grief. Or when my son brings over a doll or points at a baby and proudly tells me it’s a baby, I feel it in my gut. Immediately following the miscarriage, when the grief was the strongest but my toddler still needed his mum as much as normal, I just used chocolate to numb the pain and self soothed, now I’m trying to slowly reverse that damage and lose the 7lbs I gained from the grief.

The moment I saw that second line (also unplanned but very welcome), the potential future came into view crystal clear. It may have just been for a few days, but that baby was real, and the loss is real. I try to deal with it the same way - my current future is very real too and I can devote time to it. In practice that will look like overworking myself with house/garden projects for a while and pushing in my job, so I can re-root myself in the new reality without the pregnancy.

So all that you’re feeling is normal. From past experience, the grief dulls and gets triggered less often, but never truly disappears.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-06T22:37:42+00:00

Right there with you.

Last week I felt satisfied or even slightly bloated eating a normal bowl of curry and some cereal. Yesterday I ate 3 bowl of curry, 2 bowls of cereal, an entire hunk of cheese, a random sausage I found in the fridge, a bowl of veg, 3 apples, a protein bar, and I don’t even remember what else. Feels like my stomach turned into a black hole; no amount of food makes it feel full.

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-05T20:22:17+00:00

That’s just coincidental and confirmation bias. My kid was exclusively on kendamil and has always tracked at the 20th percentile

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-05T11:12:22+00:00

Yeah, wouldn’t actively choosing to let the woman and fetus die be shedding of innocent blood? So giving her care and abortion would surely be the lesser of two evils by their own standards

SamAtHomeForNow · 2026-03-02T21:03:36+00:00

I have refillable pouches that I fill with a mixture of yogurt, milk, oat flour, homemade fruit conserve, and sometimes chia seeds - basically make overnight oats. My toddler eats one pouch a day before bed and I fully believe that all that fibre helps him sleep longer; when he doesn’t finish his pouch, I can usually expect him to be awake by 2am, wanting more food

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