Pregnant after Lap for endo & cyst!

Hi Ladies! I can’t actually quite believe this… but we’re finally pregnant 🎉 Last summer, we were getting tests done after a year of TTC at 37 & wasn’t getting anywhere. Turns out I had silent endo & a large cyst on an ovary. Ended up having my Lap in October to remove the endo & drain the cyst. They also checked my tubes which were all good.

After the lap I decided to just fully let go of control. I stopped POAS on multiple OPKs (I was doing cheapies, Clearblue and the most expensive sticks in the world Mira). I stopped temping (this was huge for me as I have OCD with tracking everything & being able to confirm ovulation). I stopped researching.

What I did instead was I started to eat even better, only using 1 cheap OPK stick, I didn’t focus on the lack & focused on being grateful for what we had. Put it out to the universe what I wanted & just visualised my pregnancy & everything surrounding it.

We didn’t try first month after and started again in December and then again in January… so it took us 2 months after lap!

Had a scan at the early pregnancy unit yesterday as my surgeon said there’s a higher chance of ectopic pregnancy. It’s ok for now & there’s the start of a baby in the womb so not ectopic! 🙏🏼But will be having a scan again next week Just focusing on a sticky healthy baby now ♥️

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I'm so not meant to be a mother.

My kids won't listen to me get into stuff when they know they aren't supposed to. Telling me no all the time. Only listen to their dad. Laughs when I correct them. I spend most of my time yelling at them because they don't want to listen to me at all. My husband said that I shouldn't have kids. And I am believing him on it. I was never meant to be a mother now. I won't hurt my kids I just want to disappear and make everyone else's lives better without me.

One and done… or not?

32ftm. I’m starting to feel so much pressure to have another baby soon as I wean from breastfeeding so they can be close in age and be friends, but I don’t feel ready for pregnancy and newborn trenches again 😭 my husband and I are all we’ve got. Having just one baby without a village has been really tough. Am I being unrealistic wanting another one soon?

Baby #2??

I really want baby number 2 and am thinking of doing it via IUI as a solo mama!
Has anyone had any experiences with it 👀

Tests

So I had a blood test at the drs bc I keep getting positive tests when the blood test was negative what could this mean? Hubby says the tests are negative and said he can’t see anything. Negative image down below.

Am I pregnant?

I lightly spotted almost 5 days ago, which is not common for me before my period.
My period was supposed to come today. I should have tested in the morning but its 5:30pm.
Is there a second line??

Anyone have this happen before?

We were not trying to conceive, used protection and had sex on week 2 of my cycle (accidentally on my peak ovulation day). Week 3 we had Flu A. Week 4 my period did not come (it’s very regular). I tested and it was negative (2 different brands).
What should have been week 2 of my next cycle (now 6 weeks post last period), I had light red/ pink spotting for one day when I wiped. The following week, I tested again, still negative, but this time almost all the dye was in the negative space, which I’ve never seen happen before. The area where it shows one horizontal line for negative and a plus sign for positive, the horizontal line was super faded at the 3 minute mark, and the negative vertical line in the next window was VERY dark. Now I’m on week 8 of all this, period did not show up yesterday. Nothing in my life has changed (no additional stress, no other illness, no changes in diet or exercise, etc).

Has anyone gone through this and NOT been pregnant? I’m super nervous as we thought we were done having kids.

PS. I know I should go get a blood test, does anyone know if urgent care will do that? I’m past being convinced by a pee test.