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blog birthday! some reflections on 2 years of blogging & TTCing…

I started this blog two years ago today. I started it after reading a post on the old blog Uterus x2 called “build it, they will come.”  The gist of the post is that the owners of that blog – a fabulous couple whose blogs I have followed for a long time now – [...]

“why don’t you try adoption?”

Its been a year (exactly!) since I posted on here. In that year, I also haven’t been reading y’all’s blogs, and I’m sorry for that. Things got very busy with school and then life and something had to give and it was the blogging. So I apologize and do want to get [...]

busy days…

Hey Folks,
Yes, I’m still here. It’s been a busy month with school. Sorry for the lack of updates.
I’m heading in to the doctor in a couple of hours for my next insem. I’m crossing my fingers that it’s the right time. I got a very odd reading on my [...]

at least a little good news on the baby front

I just got a call from my sperm bank with some good news.  When I ordered my IUI vial last cycle, I asked about changing over my pre-purchased ICI vials to IUI vials, since I’ll now be doing IUIs instead.  At the time, they told me they didn’t have any more IUI vials!  They had [...]

First IUI! and on cd 14!

First, thanks for all your sweet comments about the homophobia and everything at school.  I really appreciate them.  I have some updates – check back tomorrow for them.
Also, sorry for not posting sooner!  Things have been crazy busy with school; this quarter is supposed to be our busiest of the year.
And now for the real [...]

cd 42: Aunt Flo Arrives

Okay, y’all.  My period *finally* arrived yesterday.  I don’t know what was going on, but this was the longest cycle I have ever had.  Perhaps my body and clearb.lue pregnancy tests are conspiring against me to get me to spend money – I spent over $30 on 4 pregnancy tests (the good ones with the [...]

not preggers :(

I took a pregnancy test last night and it was negative.  This was not a surprise, but it isn’t as easy to get the negative results now as it was earlier on.  I haven’t actually gotten my period yet either, so I suppose I could still turn out to be pregnant, but I don’t think [...]

ttc #5 – and the glories of charting

This post is a bit late, but I did my last insems on Sunday and Monday the 30th and 1st.  The 30th was cd 17 and I got my first positive OPK, so I did the first insem.  I got a second positive OPK on the 1st and did the second insem that night before [...]

the doc visit (or, small world, eh?)

School is finally calming down some and I have a bit of free time, so I wanted to give all of y’all an update.  As I said here, I think there may be something wrong with my cycles since my previous one lasted only 24 days (with only a 9 day luteal phase), and so [...]

it’s all in the timing

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 [...]