What to do when your period is late....

Now, of course the obvious answer would be to take a pregnancy test.

What if your period is late (knowing this via charting and a long LP), you took a pregnancy test on the day your period was due, and you got a BFN.

Am I out this month?  I have no idea.   Could I be pregnant?  I have no idea.

So what do you do?  If you are like me, you have been doing these things:

-Search Google for anything from "early pregnancy symptoms" (which we already know from when we were 16 year olds).....to "how many DPO can you finally get a BFP after getting BFNs"......to taking "Are You Pregnant?" tests available on the internet that again, we all took probably when we were 16.

-Stare at all your elevated temperatures on your chart, knowing they were supposed to go down 4-5 days ago.  On Fertility Friend, compare your chart with "pregnancy charts" and go and look at every result it brings up.  Do this at least 5 times a day.

-Post and talk to people online about what's going on, getting excited for positive feedback and coming back down to reality with people who are sure you probably aren't KU.

-Talk to your KU friend, tell her what's going on (the only "IRL" person other than DH who you are telling), and then become immediately embarrassed of your decision to tell her this when she says something like "oohhh.....well...I guess you never know what can happen?"

-Google images of BFP tests and looking for how many DPO they were taken.

-Go to Fertility Friend and stare at your chart longingly.  Every time you open the page, look at everything that is written, because you are sure somewhere it says "YOU'RE PREGNANT!" but you just didn't see it before.

-After having horrible indigestion while trying to go to sleep, realize you didn't overeat or eat anything that would upset your stomach.  Immediately search "indigestion and pregnancy" and read several websites for about an hour.  Stay up until 2 am with your mind racing, and subsequently waking up with a migraine because you were up so late.

-Add that headache to your "symptoms" list that you have running in your brain

-In between each of these, tell yourself you are crazy and to stop thinking or over-analyzing.  Be level-headed for 5-30 minutes, and return to one of the items listed above.



......TTC turns you into a crazy person.