Cramps from first PP AF?

[MapleMe]

I'm getting really uncomfortable cramps. They came on all of a sudden this evening before dinner. I'm not pregnant (as far as I can tell) and the interwebs tell me that this could be my body trying to start up AF. Besides the fact that this is way to soon (it was 16ish months with M), I've never had excessively crampy periods. Is this going to be my new normal? Or is this just the weirdness of the first cycle? Has anyone else had anything like this?

[ovenrack]

My cycle is totally different after pregnancy #2 than it was before kids or after pregnancy #1. Much tougher cramps, I can't use my menstrual cup for the first 24h of my period because the pressure is all different, and generally it's just... more. Everything. It sucks.

[ovenrack]

Also I got both my PP periods super light but with cramps at like 6m pp, despite EBF and no SSTN. So, I dunno.

[MapleMe]

Mar 21, 2017 20:08:26 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

My cycle is totally different after pregnancy #2 than it was before kids or after pregnancy #1. Much tougher cramps, I can't use my menstrual cup for the first 24h of my period because the pressure is all different, and generally it's just... more. Everything. It sucks.

[MapleMe]

I mean that was totally not what I wanted to hear.

[ovenrack]

Mar 21, 2017 20:11:26 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

I mean that was totally not what I wanted to hear.

[Stringy]

oh hi. Mine arrived last week with zero warning, zero cramping, zero weaning, ZERO STTN FO SHO.

I think its all a big gamble with no rhyme or reason.

[Stringy]

Maybe if its just tonight its like...gas or something?

[ovenrack]

Mar 21, 2017 20:18:57 GMT -5 Stringy said:

oh hi. Mine arrived last week with zero warning, zero cramping, zero weaning, ZERO STTN FO SHO.

I think its all a big gamble with no rhyme or reason.

[ovenrack]

Okay, the "wrong" gif and now "pull my finger" are making me laugh so hard that I had to explain the thread to A, who now knows in detail how different my menstrual cycle and reproductive organs feel since M was born.

[sarenu]

I think the first year was bad. Like curl up with a heating pad the first day bad. Before kids I had back cramping but nothing that made me want to stay in bed.

The good news is it mellowed out eventually.

[Stringy]

And here I am just missing Hillary

[Stringy]

Mar 21, 2017 20:24:04 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

Okay, the "wrong" gif and now "pull my finger" are making me laugh so hard that I had to explain the thread to A, who now knows in detail how different my menstrual cycle and reproductive organs feel since M was born.

Hasn't he learned not to ask yet?

[MapleMe]

I love the chicken

[Stringy]

Mar 21, 2017 20:29:16 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

I love the chicken

Maybe OR's chickens will dance on poker tables...

[MapleMe]

Mar 21, 2017 20:30:24 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Mar 21, 2017 20:29:16 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

I love the chicken

Maybe OR's chickens will dance on poker tables...

Wearing bikinis on a pole.

[ovenrack]

Mar 21, 2017 20:27:49 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Mar 21, 2017 20:24:04 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

Okay, the "wrong" gif and now "pull my finger" are making me laugh so hard that I had to explain the thread to A, who now knows in detail how different my menstrual cycle and reproductive organs feel since M was born.

Hasn't he learned not to ask yet?

He didn't ask.  He just LOOKED at me and so I explained and then I decided he should know what I go through every month.  

It doesn't help that I just finished going through it again, so it's on my mind anyway.  

[ovenrack]

Mar 21, 2017 20:30:24 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Mar 21, 2017 20:29:16 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

I love the chicken

Maybe OR's chickens will dance on poker tables...

Someone's gonna have to teach them how...

[MapleMe]

[MapleMe]

[MapleMe]

[Stringy]

I'll teach them this

[ovenrack]

Just linking to make sure everyone has seen the giant chicken video...

[Stringy]

well thats what nightmares are made of ovenrack,

[Stringy]

omg there's two. wtf is happening.

[ovenrack]

It's real. It's a type of brahma chicken. I'm not getting any of those, FYI.

[MapleMe]

It's an Tauntaun!

[ovenrack]

I had to google that, MapleMe.

[MapleMe]

Mar 21, 2017 21:09:09 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

I had to google that, MapleMe.

So did I. I'm a Treker.

[ovenrack]