Still implanting?!

[Bluewings]

Talked with my mom yesterday and she said she was on bedrest for most of her first trimester with me because the doctors told her I hadn't implanted yet and she needed to give me time (as stillness) to plant properly.

That baffled me. I thought it was implantation - around the time of AF - and then... that's it. Then baby grows and grows. Anyone heard of implantation going on for weeks?!

 

[agreeksmom]

no sorry it doesnt go on for weeks but people bleed through the first trimester maybe you should get looked at incase its something more

 

[Bluewings]

I haven't bled at all but because of my wonky BFP then 3 BFNS then faint BFP again I plan on trying to get seen this week. I was just curious as to this new implantation thing she was talking about.

A baby can't grow without implanting first, I'm pretty sure!! Right? The baby needs to be "hooked up" to start receiving its nutrients. Or am I wrong?

 

[angel2010]

No, implantation occurs 6-12 days after ovulation. I have heard someone incorrectly using the term to refer to the time when the placenta takes over at roughly 12 weeks (sometimes earlier I have read).

 

[Bluewings]

I told her that sounded really incorrect and she just thinks I'm not aware of what is going on I guess. I need to find something to show her that I don't need to act like I'm on disability because I'm pregnant. Lol. She's told me to not use stairs, stop exercising, no sex, and make DH do all my chores and shopping. HAHAHAH! Not happening!

 

[angel2010]

When the baby doesn't implant correctly that is when a chemical pregnancy occurs. It is hard for older people to go against anything their doctors say.

 

[sunnylove]

If the egg doesn't implant roughly within 2 weeks of ovulation, it will die and pass. It is so scientifically wrong to say that the egg hadn't implanted the entire first trimester. I'm sure her doctor said something else and she just heard it wrong.

 

[ttc126]

Its very confusing and I am not sure if its an old way of thinking or what! But several books I have read and my gyn referred to it as if implantation is a process. Like even 6 to 8 weeks "implanting further"...sorry Im not help...but I have heard other people say this as well...

 

[agreeksmom]

lol by chance is your mom middle eastern or east asianlol they all think that way nothing wrong with stairs shopping lol

 

[Malcolm12]

It is hard to change older people's minds. My mother had an ectopic pregnancy before me and she says the doctor told her I was going to be a girl since she only had the girl fallopian tube left. There is no telling her any different.

 

[Bluewings]

Haha firstly my mom isn't actually old. Secondly we aren't Middle Eastern or Asian

I will just show her some scientific data showing the growth of a baby and how implantation cannot possibly take that long!

 

[nnynny]

Implantation doesn't take that long. However, once the initial attachment occurs, the attachment continues further which eventually results in the placenta appearance. I think the doctor was trying to explain it to your mum in lay man's terms and that's why it sounded that way to her.