I'm 35 and DP is 49, first pregnancy for me and he has a daughter 25. We stopped preventing in March and although I started tracking my cycles and keeping fingers crossed each month we weren't officially ttc. I guess we were afraid of getting our hopes up. DP was worried about his age and I've always had regular but painful, heavy period with spotting 3 - 5 before actual AF. I guess I figured I wasn't normal though reading up on here eased a lot of my fears about the spotting. My cycles were always 28 - 29 days with sore bb's starting a few days after O along with other PMS symptoms, especially fatigue. The only thing I did was follow CM, pre-natal vitamins and grapefruit juice and mucinex and try to time BD when I figured I'd O, but because of our work schedules we'd never managed to BD more than once during fertile window. Last month I had a weird cycle. Sore bb's later than usual and no spotting until CD 30. I tested and got a BFN. After a past 3 months of BFN's I got put off from testing. AF showed up CD 32. I don't know if I had a chemical or AF was just late. But I felt the disappointment keenly and I decided that if I didn't get a BFP this month I'd take a break just to breathe and then start seeing doctor. We only BD'd CD 14 when I had lots of EWCM, didn't even bother with grapefruit juice or mucinex and slacked off on my vitamins. That was it. No symptoms. In fact, was same as last cycle - sore bb's much later than usual and late than normal spotting, I thought oh well, another late/weird cycle or maybe my cycles are changing:
CD 29 - Small amount of beige/tan cm on tp
CD 30 - More brown/tan cm on tp in morning
CD 31 - One spot of bright red when I wipe in morning. I think that's it, I'm out AF is here. But no AF....no cramps
CD 32 - No spotting, no AF. Weird. No spotting even after BD. Really weird because I feel a little heaviness like AF would arrive.
CD 33 - 38 Brown flecks/streaks/ some stringly dark brown CM - only enough to leave smudge on liner. Not sure what to think. I have no nausea, nothing. Maybe a little tired. Can't bare to test but make appointment for doctor for tomorrow.
CD 39 - Spotting now darker red, heavier, with small clots in the morning. Pregnancy confirmed by blood test. I'm stunned. Scared. I'm given a shot of progesterone and placed on immediate bed rest. HCG levels to be checked monday again and possibly another shot of progesterone. By afternoon, spotting has slowed and back to just brown streaks in CM and smudging when wipe.
CD 40 - Trying to rest and stay in bed. Spotting has slowed but still had some stringy dark brown clots on tp after BM this morning. Not much spotting since.
Tomorrow I get my HCG checked again, hoping for the best but I am worried about the spotting. I also wanted to share because I am a chronic spotter and while I see lots of posts about spotting leading to BFP or no spotting then BFP I've never seen a BFP story with the spotting AFTER missed AF and BFP.