Ocean Dreamer

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 OPK last night – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the middle of last week I went to the gynecologist (not for baby-related things) and she said it looked like I would ovulate by Friday.  That was Wednesday.  I use a fertility monitor and an OPK.  The fertility monitor is great because it’s aligned with my body chemistry, but unfortunately it can only be [...]

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. Here’s [...]