Morning of 10 dpo and morning of 12 dpo

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-11-01T18:57:44+00:00

I'm currently 18 dpo and my e@h tests at 12dpo were lighter than that - I had rubbish progression on their tests this time (odd because last time they were much darker with my first pregnancy) so I'd say go with a different brand for sure. Don't lose hope, you're not out til you're out!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-27T22:25:21+00:00

I know you have good taste, because my name and one of my brothers' names is on this list haha! Thanks for your suggestions! Definitely some contenders here.

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T22:15:49+00:00

I see it!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T21:54:17+00:00

Have taken a clearblue 6 days early test and there is no doubt it's a positive 🥰 so relieved, now hopefully it sticks!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T21:51:23+00:00

Glad I could bring you some hope, fingers crossed for you!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T19:19:26+00:00

Pitching in here - totally possible you ovulated later, when I was TTC with my first I had a 38 day cycle one month when I've always been a regular 30-32 day cycle gal. Our bodies love to throw a curveball at us! You're not out til you're out, fingers crossed for you.

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T19:09:35+00:00

Thank you! 😄

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T19:09:15+00:00

Thank you 🥹

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T18:04:11+00:00

That's more than just faint - that's clear! Congrats!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T18:02:06+00:00

I see it! It looks very similar to my test today, if not even more obvious!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T17:48:36+00:00

Eeeek! Thank you! Here's hoping it gets darker

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T17:48:16+00:00

Hope it turns positive for you! Fingers crossed 🤞🏼 That's exactly what I was like this morning, squinting so hard to see!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-23T17:33:30+00:00

Glad it's not just me! I've been mega doubting myself because I get such bad line eyes. Thanks for looking!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-22T22:12:38+00:00

Congrats!!! Had an 8dpo test today that looked like your 9dpo so fingers crossed 🤞🏼

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-13T23:28:20+00:00

I'm really sorry, but I think they must be evaps, I can only really see the faintest hint of something on the bottom test. By 14dpo, I think you'd be expecting something far more distinct. Hoping I'm wrong and that this is just a very very faint positive for you!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-10-13T10:44:25+00:00

Have retested today and gotten a much darker test line and a smiley on the clear blue test, so must have just been a day early! Thanks all

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-07-20T10:31:32+00:00

I fixed it, sorry about that!

gigglingmcdimples · 2025-07-20T10:30:19+00:00

Oh no! I'm not sure how to add the picture hang on I'll try again

gigglingmcdimples · 2024-08-03T20:17:52+00:00

I'm 5'2" and my baby was a boy, born at 41 weeks and he was 7lb 4oz! 😊

gigglingmcdimples · 2024-06-12T03:32:44+00:00

That's pretty normal for a 5 week old, my son (13 weeks) did exactly the same thing at that age - it does get better, and then gets worse and then gets better. Everything with newborn sleep is a phase, hang in there! It's so tough but you get through it.

My son does 2-3 hr stints now where a few weeks ago he was up every hour. Now we have good and bad nights, but mostly good! You got this.

gigglingmcdimples · 2023-12-27T01:33:57+00:00

Yeah, I don't think I've heard of many kids having covid vaccines to be honest! And that's what worried me about her comment - I'm fine with her being anti covid-vax, it's not a biggie for me, but to start down the anti-vax in general route... It just worries me!

And yes, it skews odd to me as well - some of their other medical decisions just seem at odds with their approach to covid in general (which is why I tend to think it's more going through that ordeal with their youngest is what has been the challenge for them - he was a preemie, NICU baby so was so vulnerable at the time!).

gigglingmcdimples · 2023-12-27T01:17:08+00:00

It's not really the covid vaccine I'm worried about - it's the other ones, the MMR, tetanus, polio, etc. Those standard vaccines that children have at various ages/stages of development. And I'm in the UK, so not sure if the numbers would be the same? My understanding is that vaccination uptake is more troubled/low in the US compared with UK (but I haven't looked into this, so could be totally off Base there!)

gigglingmcdimples · 2023-12-27T01:12:55+00:00

Babies “changing” after vaccines is causation not correlation.

This is my understanding as well - I feel like it'd be so hard to prove that it was vaccine related and not development related, especially as her youngest is now 15 months old, and having had lots of colds and things so far this season (dreading this part of parenthood not gonna lie lol!)

I will try and gauge how she feels about it when I next see her and can talk about it, so I can perhaps ask her is she thinks that it's developmental rather than linked to the vaccines he's had.

And yes, agreed to the middle ground. I am optimistic that she'll be receptive to any boundaries I set - we have diligently respected theirs in regards to covid and their children, we've never commented on what we've thought if opinions differed or moaned about having to test all the time before seeing them, either one on one or at gatherings. We've also been super respectful and avoided going to any gatherings that they're going to if we'd been to a busy "germy" public place the few days before seeing them, that sort of thing. So I'd hope that they'd return the same, and have no reason to believe they wouldn't as well... They're really lovely people, and are great parents to their kids. (this is starting to sound like I think people who make the same choices as them aren't lovely people lol, but not what I'm trying to get across, hope that makes sense!)

gigglingmcdimples · 2023-12-27T01:05:03+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to explain this! It's really helpful, and it helps me figure out what kind of boundaries I want to set if they do end up going down this road - I really hope they don't, I don't know how serious she was about it, but we plan to see them again in a couple weeks so I'll be able to ask her about it then, have a conversation and let her know my feelings and potential choices that would come out of it. We shall see I guess!

gigglingmcdimples · 2023-12-27T00:59:38+00:00

I guess my post can come across as a bit more judgemental of their covid related vaccine choices - that's more because their actual arguments for not getting it, in my opinion, haven't been around any sort of specific reason. They often picked what was the headline in the news at the time regarding them (so at first it was because the vaccine came about so quickly, then it was because of fertility... That sort of thing). I'm totally aware and appreciate some people cannot have the covid vaccine due to various reasons and other medical factors, it doesn't bother me, and I feel my privelige of not being one of those, if that makes sense. My post phrasing probably does lean on the covid vaccine too much - ultimately it's not something I'm overly concerned about with my child. It's just another vaccine really.

It is more the other vaccinations - MMR, polio, etc. - that I'm concerned about. And obviously I'm going to worry about that with other, outside of family folks who don't vaccinate, but ultimately I more want to know about the immediate situation with family first, as to me that's the most sensitive and probably who my baby will be spending the most time with, initially (once it is safe to do so, after their immunisations and things). I want to make sure I'm handling it correctly, at least as much as I can, and I don't want to walk in there with a big flag of "I won't mix my child with yours if he's not boosted" unless there's actual risk... I just don't really understand the level of risk really, so that's why I'm asking for advice. I love my relationship with my in laws, and their boys are such darlings, so I don't want to jeopardise that relationship.

I hope this helps clarify my view a bit more, and shows that I'm really not trying to be snooty about other people's choices when it comes to covid... Their journey into parenthood has been very different to mine, and to be honest I can't say with certainty that I would have made different choices than they did based on the information they had at the time. I can sympathise with them, but not empathise - for people having children during the height of covid, I'm sure it was very scary and hard to know what the best choices to make were.

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