Tell me about your late BFP. I need hope!

[Mochagirl]

Hi ladies. I've been posting my woes in the 2WW thread, but wanted to post here to get some more input. I had what I think was implantation bleeding just as I was going to bed at 11dpo. Today I am 13dpo and still getting a BFN with a FRER and FMU. AF is due sometime between today and Friday. I know I could just wait and will know either way in a few days, but I am going crazy wondering whether or not I could be pregnant!! I've been testing steadily since 8po and am driving myself crazy!

I have many of the usual symptoms (nausea, lots and lots of cramps - both dull af-style aches and sharp pains and a slight backache that comes and goes), but many of these could just be af on her way. I don't temp, so I don't have any other clues to use.

Has anyone here had late IB like I did, and if so, when did you get your BFP? I got my BFP at 8dpo with my twins and 11dpo with ds3...and I've never had IB before. Could it be the diet and supplements that caused such a big change (she asks hopefully)?

[Zivic-Bubac]

I've always tested few days after my af was due, worked for me 3 times - nice, obvious BFPs

I would test again on Saturday. Your symptoms are really promising, just wait a few more days

[Mochagirl]

Thanks, Z-B. I feel like af could arrive any minute and I keep going to the bathroom to check if she's here. I don't know how you ladies wait until after af is due to test - I'm so impatient (as you can tell)!

[zanacal]

I still have everything crossed for you Mochagirl. I've never had a BFP until quite close to the time AF is due - but I know I had implantation bleeding really early with DS2 (I think it was 5dpo) so it would have been a long time between implantation and bfp.

[rainbowflower]

13dpo is still early to test, 40% of pregnant women don't get a BFP until after AF was due (14dpo for most women) according to FF so presumably would get false negatives before then

you're not out yet by any means

[Mochagirl]

Thanks, ladies. I'm still praying that was really implantation bleeding I experienced at 10dpo because it would help explain the late BFP. I just don't know what else it could have been - pink cm with some streaks of red that disappeared by morning. DH and I hadn't dtd since our last attempt the day before O, so it couldn't have been caused by sex.

Darn FRERs with their '5 days before expected period' promise - it's worked for me in the past, which is why it's so discouraging this time around!

[DoulaMama]

My first pregnancy was a late BFP. I had nothing on a FRER until 16dpo. Good luck!!!

[begonia]

Oh FX for you Mocha! I don't have a late BFP to share (this is the only pg that we planned) but I just really, really hope this month is it for you!

[Mochagirl]

Thanks again, everyone. I'm just getting so obsessive about this whole thing (gee, can you tell?). I just keep hoping that if a woman who has implantation bleeding at 5dpo can't get a BFP until 10dpo, then maybe that means my 10dpo IB will lead to a 15dpo BFP or something like that. I'm not exactly a patient person, as you can tell, but I'm at least going to try to stop testing twice a day as I have been since the cost of all these FRERs is going to put me in the poor house!

[zanacal]

No way did I even get a BFP at 10dpo with the baby I had implantation bleeding with at 5dpo - it would have been at least 12 or 13 dpo (but not an early response test). Thinking of you! In fact, I was driving home from work today trying to figure out how many dpo you are - how odd is that?!