Ocean Dreamer

Nope, not preggers. :(  I actually think something may be wrong.  Until I started TTC, I always had a *very* regular cycle.  Not regular down to the exact hour on the exact 28th day like one woman I know, but regular enough that my cycle was always 28 to 30 days long.  Not the past [...]

Well, y’all, I could be preggers right this minute.  (How’s that for an opening sentence, huh?)
The timing was *tricky* this time around.  For the past few months, when I wasn’t trying, my cycle was pretty long.  Last month it was 34 days.  So this month, when I called to order my spermies, I figured having [...]

So back in June when I last ordered spermies from PRS, I also preordered six samples.  (They limit you to six, or I would have ordered more.)  Last week, when I went to order more samples for my upcoming insem (hurray!  I’m so happy to be back at this), they couldn’t find my samples.  I [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Yesterday I did my first round of inseminations. All things considered, they went pretty well. Some friends had really hilarious stories about their first times, but mine went off pretty smoothly … except for the dogs.
For the uninitiated, the sperm comes in a small vile stored in a large tank of liquid nitrogen. [...]