Ocean Dreamer

So here’s an update on my adventures with biphobia on my lesbian moms listserve.  You can read about what happened here.  After my post on the listserve, I received many responses.  Some were from women who agreed with me (although one went back on her agreement under pressure from the group).  Most, however, were along [...]

My sweet, sweet girl is sick with a kidney infection. This is her second one in less than two years and I am really sad and worried about her. One vet told me she might not live that long, which really upset me. That was after the first kidney infection, though, and until now she’d [...]

Okay, so perhaps I had created a bubble of hallucination, as Sarah commented yesterday.  After my semi-confusing pregnancy test yesterday morning, I bought a set of 2 electric ones, so there would be less confusion.  I took one yesterday afternoon and it was negative – but, I thought, okay, maybe the HCG* hasn’t had time [...]

So today is 12 dpo* and I took a pregnancy test and – guess what – it has a *very* slight, so slight you almost can’t see it, second line.  The test and control lines are pink, and if the test line were any lighter, it seriously wouldn’t exist.  I’m posting a pic here, but [...]

Another quick update as I am currently swimming through the end-of-quarter-rush craziness.  However, I went to my regular acupuncture appointment the other day, and my acupuncturist said my pulse felt slippery – the way it does when you’re pregnant.  Whoa.  I’m still *days* away from even a glimmer of hope of having an accurate pregnancy [...]

Just a brief update, folks.  This morning my BBT was back down to pre-ovulation levels and my fertility monitor *finally* read peak.  My plan was to do a short workout, then inseminate, but as I was working out I could feel what may have been the actual ovulation.  So, I cut the workout short (yes, [...]

Okay, I just don’t get it. As I wrote yesterday, I hadn’t ovulated – at least, according to the fertility monitor and OPK I’m using. Then, this morning, my BBT had risen .4 degrees – above my cover line, though still a lot lower than any other post-ovulation BBT I’ve ever had. So seeing that [...]

So it is cd 18 and I still have not ovulated. This is the longest wait I have had in nearly 2 years of charting. I did switch antihistamines in the hopes of upping my eggwhite CM (it’s worked so far!), but otherwise I can’t figure out what’s going on. I haven’t been more stressed [...]

I’m on several listserves for lesbian moms and women who are TTC.  One of them labeled themselves as being “just for lesbians.”  It was the first one I found and I joined it because I wanted the community, even though I was strongly opposed to the exclusionary policy.  Recently, the listowner received a request from [...]

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and other right-wing pundits were [...]