Ocean Dreamer

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 [...]

Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted.  School is taking up so much of my time, it’s hard to find time to clean my house, let alone write on here.  But, I am coming back and have very exciting news.  I’m set to start TTC again at the end of this month.  I [...]

I’m going to be taking a TTC break until October.  If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I’m also in grad school.  I’ll be getting my Master in Teaching for elementary ed and will graduate in July.  While grad school is important, having a baby has always been my top priority.  [...]

So since I last posted, I have:

visited 4 states (not counting those I drove or flew through),
finished my coursework for the summer,
gone camping on both sides of the country,
gone to my first Single Mothers by Choice (SMC) meeting, and
found out that I am definitively not pregnant.

I saw Pam (my acupuncturist) yesterday and she mentioned [...]

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 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 [...]