Thoughts on Chemical Pregnancies.

A chemical pregnancy is, of course, a fertilized embryo that never implants. In the days before home pregnancy tests, women never knew they were pregnant, because this type of miscarriage would be experience as a 'normal,' if slightly late, period. Now, particularly with the popularity of charting, many women find out they're pregnant at 10, 11, or 12 days past ovulation only to lose the pregnancy a few days or a week later.

Having been through one miscarriage, I don't want to go through the experience of CP. I've decided I would rather not know. I'd rather believe that I'm having a long cycle and some funky PMS symptoms, and never get my hopes up over two pink lines only to have them dashed so quickly. I also don't want to be three and a half weeks pregnant and agonizing over tiny hcg numbers at the OB's office. So I made Mr. Ibis promise not to let me test at least until my period is due. I have a nice long luteal phase, so that way by the time I know I will be at least 4 weeks pregnant and have slightly better chances of a sticky baby.