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Common Behaviors
in the Two Week Wait

Women who are in the two week wait commonly suffer from amazingly similar issues. The stress and often frustration that begins shortly after ovulation and ends only after the arrival of AF or a BFP can lead to many nutty mannerisms that make sense only to other women who are trying to get a belly. If you are in the two week wait, you can expect one or more of the following to strike at any time:

Symptom Analyzing

Every single twinge, wave of nausea (no matter how minor), and achy boob is recorded and analyzed as to whether this could simply be PMS or the real thing. You may often repeatedly poke your own boobs to see if they are sore. You think back to other pregnancies and try to remember exactly what it felt like before you got a positive on a pregnancy test.

Sign Analyzing

Signs differ from symptoms as they can be observed by someone other than ourselves. As such, standing in front of a mirror in the two week wait is very common as you search for new or darker veins. Your partner is also recruited to make observations on the size or status of your breasts in hopes that the changes that are apparent to you are totally obvious to them as well.

Pee Test Insanity

This can manifest itself in many forms:

• Taking a test WAY too early (i.e., 3 DPO)
• Taking a test more than once a day
• Looking at a test under every possible light source (including outdoors)
• Scanning or photographing the test to adjust lighting, create a negative image of the test, enlarge, or otherwise digitally manipulate the photo to make a line more clear or apparent
• Tearing a test apart to peer more closely at the strip
• Having others look at the test and if their impression doesn't agree with yours, you think to yourself that they don't know what they are talking about
• When you do get a positive you have trouble believing it!

Board/Internet Surfing

Much of your daytime hours may be spend hopping around from forum to bulletin board to website, trying to connect with other belly getters to share symptoms and exchange advice. You become proficient in TTC abbreviations and acronyms and may sometimes lapse into TTC-speak when having a conversation with your friends or family (particularly your husband or partner).

When he looks at you strangely, try to remember if you said something like, "Well, I may get a BFP at 10 DPO but if not and AF doesn't show I'll take another HPT at 14 DPO. I know that I O'd on CD 13 because I had plenty of EWCM so by 12 DPO I might have a BFP but it may be a BFN and that's ok because I know some women take awhile to produce enough hCG to show up on a FRER."