Worried it's Boy#4 Because Late Ovulation
Hi Ladies,
I have been on and off this site for a while now. I have three boys, 7, 6, 2, who I love so much. I really do enjoy being a boy mom, but I have always yearned to have a mother-daughter relationship too. My mom and I were never very close (this has improved over the years thankfully) and I just want to experience the shot at creating a close bond like that.
I found out Monday (23rd) with a very light BFP that I am pregnant. Here is the deal- we planned to start trying next month but this month we did a "trial run" with lime and heating pad. I think we also had a two day cut off attempt in there based on O signs. But here is the thing- it is super confusing. I always always know when I am Oing, I get pains and EWCM for a day and a half then it goes away and then dry until period. I was positive I Oed night of 4th or morning of 5th due to EWCM and pain. Welllll, my period was due last friday, and I was testing with BFNs. I got a faint BFP Monday, and then Tuesday I had a HCG draw with a 54 result, and Thursday's blood draw was 115, leaving a doubling every 36 hours. I was SHOCKED by this because I thought I was having a chemical pregnancy based off how long it took me to get a BFP and how light tests are. So I either Oed when I thought I did and it took the egg forever to implant with those betas or The ONLY other option is my O got delayed over a week (first time ever) with two non-sway BDs in there (bc i was sure i was done Oing a week ago) less than a week before my period was due one of which was a J&D. This is a possibility bc I was sick for three weeks before and during this with a horrible cold virus, very stressed, and also overexercising. I know for sure between the sway on the 5th and the nonsway JD on the 14th that we did not BD as DH was out of town. Both of these conception scenarios feel equally improbable to me and I am in disbelief about this potentially being a viable pregnancy. I am also mourning that most likely I did O super late for the first time ever, and was cheated of my chance to sway.
Since then I have been obsessively trying to figure out my O date based on the betas and darkness of my BFPs, and I am freaking out thinking the BD we had just 4 days before my period was the one that did it, and that broke all the girl swaying rules. I have cried about this as this is definitely our LAST baby and my last shot a girl. I also am worried that something could be wrong with the baby because the egg geared up on the 4th and then didn't O until 10 days later. AKA an old egg.
The only comfort I have is that I read a study (albeit an old one) that said late ovulations typically result in girls and early in boys (all three of my boys were early Os), and that the embryo would have to be pretty tough to survive implanting in a lining that was that old (making me think girl.)
Anyone have any similar experience with this kind of thing? Is there still hope? Thank you.
