This 2ww might kill me...

Well as if the 2ww isn't bad enough, this one has been particularly frustrating.  Everything with this cycle has been just strange, so I guess it would make sense that something else would throw a curve ball at us. 

On Thursday, I noticed a little bit of spotting.  It wasn't much, so I didn't think a whole lot about it.  I did start to wonder if maybe it was implantation bleeding.  25-30% of women see some kind of bleeding/spotting when the embryo is implanting into the uterus.  It seemed a bit early for IB, but it was within the "window" of time that it can occur, so I thought, maybe...  On Friday, the spotting was still there, and it was getting heavier.  It was starting to make me nervous so I called my doctor's office and talked to one of the nurses. 

I gave her the details of where I was in my cycle, what I was experiencing, etc.  She asked questions about everything, and then basically told me that since I was still a week away from taking a pregnancy test, it didn't do any good to make a trip in to the office.  A blood test would still be too soon, and an ultrasound wouldn't show anything, so I just have to wait.  She told me that the color I was describing was a good sign, but that if it changed to call back.  She gave me a few other things to watch for as well, and to call if any of them happened.  She said it could have been any number of things.  Some women have mid-cycle bleeding, it could be left over from their periods, it could've been left over from the spotting after my IUI, there is a possibility that it would be from implantation, or it could be a new period starting, WAAAAAY early.  There wasn't any way to tell what it was. 

So basically, I had no answers and didn't really feel any better after calling, but it's one of those things that there really isn't an answer for, so I basically have to be patient.  ha!  Patient?!  Me?!  Right...

As the weekend has gone on the spotting has slowed, but hasn't completely stopped.  I'm hoping it's over soon.  I still don't know what to think about it.  A few people have told me that their implantation bleeding was a lot like what I have described, so I'm definitely hoping that's what it has been, but I'm not putting too much hope in it.  We'll see what Friday brings...