Tag: TTC

I was going to say TTC cycle 10 then I thought wait, wasn’t it 9? 8? Is it bad I’ve lost count?! We’re now on day 17 of cycle 10 & I realized I hadn’t posted the chart from cycle 9 yet. Is anyone still paying attention to these charts? At this point, I’m posting them so I can keep track too.

So cycle 9, I tried it all~ prenatal vitamins, 100 mg vitamin B-6 daily, green tea until O date, POM all cycle, pineapple core during days 5-8 (without eating the rest~ waste of a good pineapple I say!). Only wivestale/thebump recommended thing we aren’t doing is PreSeed. We weren’t fans. Well all that said, it didn’t help.

I was so excited with the CD7 dip (implantation dip anyone?!) that I POAS before we went to the NCSU/FSU game. It was negative. I drank & had a great time at the game. I was then elated when temp went back up on CD8. I was busy in CLT with my Papa’s surgery when the temps went down & spotting began… But on the upside, I’m thinking that some might have worked. {tmi alert… oh wait isn’t this whole post tmi?!} My CM was more pronouced than some prior months (thanks Lipton diet green tea?), I lasted to cd11 (thanks B-6?) and my last 2 periods heavier than normal (thanks POM?).

It seems like somethings been in the twitter water recently, so maybe it’ll get sent our way soon.

I’m not quite halfway through cycle nine, but just realized I hadn’t done a cycle 8 TTC post {anyone else like wow, it’s already been 8 cycles?!}. Here’s my chart:

We were both really confident that this past cycle could have been the ONE! We felt like we were in a really good place relationship-wise. We thought we’d timed the “baby dancing” pretty perfectly. So much so that the girl {me} who swears by the “drink til its pink” motto actually didn’t drink that much during the 2ww. Of course that proved pointless {minus the fact that I didn’t have a hangover after a wedding for the first time maybe ever} when I started spotting on the way home after our beach/Wilmington wedding weekend. Oh well, there’s always this cycle…

So I mentioned on twitter last week that I’d written a blog post down on paper at work because I just HAD to get it out of my head. The readers digest version~ it was about feeling like a failure while TTC; the stress & pressure we put on ourselves etc. It was brought about after our attempt at scheduled sex last cycle. I talked over posting it on here with my husband & we agreed it might be better to keep it private. But I wanted to at least let it be known that I don’t always fart rainbows, sunshine & puppies!

My chart this time looks a little different becuase for some fun reason Fertility Friend gave me 5 days of the VIP version the day I got my period. Random? I thought so too. But I took advantage of it. I checked out the different cycle graphs & analyzing tools. {EDIT I saved my VIP version chart as a pdf & it wouldn’t upload. You’re seeing the normal/free version. If you can tell me how to convert a pdf to jpg, you’d be my bff!}

Notice that there are a few days where I didn’t take my temperature or there are open circles. Those days, I was either sleeping in/lazy or woke up late which skews your temps. You might also note that I had mutliples days worth of temps at the same time. I thought my thermometer was broken. It wasn’t. I took my temp at different times & it worked. I guess my body was just being weird.

What ended up coming out of the kind of tough time we went through this cycle is that we’d *try* to stress less, that I wouldn’t throw out all the details of CM & pee sticks; over all we’d try to make it happen this month less stressfully.

For those paying attention to our TTC saga, here’s my chart from last month. Random ups & downs, especially after my supposed O date.

I think this cycle’s O date is my earliest yet (day 13). Temps (kinda?) & OPK matched up for it though. At first I was excited with the dip on day 18 (maybe implantation dip?!). Then after the super dip, I realized AF had to be on the way. Total cycle length of 22 days with 9 day LP.

Getting my period did work out well for being able to party it up at a wedding this past Saturday. Of course, I’d rather be pregnant, but lots of wine added to the great time with my family. I’ll be making another post on that when I get the photos from my Dad.

Now that I’m 10 days into cycle 6, I just realized I never posted my cycle 5 chart. Clearly it wasn’t too exciting. I also discovered I had a {let’s just say a not-so-fun TMI} infection at the end of that cycle. I’m better now thanks to antibiotics!
But I digress. We connected & are still having fun trying at least! Being out of town one weekend together (but with a lot of family) then the following two weekends apart made this cycle tough. I was actually at the beach with my work girls the last weekend. I peed on a stick on 7 DPO ~ it was negative. I knew that was early to test, but I was off to the beach with my work girls & still planning to drink it up so I thought I’d check. I drank & had a great time! When my temps dropped on that Sunday morning, I knew my period was coming & this cycle was a bust.No real travel or vacations planned during this cycle so maybe that’ll help. Oh & when I went to the gyno last week, I mentioned charting & my short LPs. She wasn’t so concerned with that, but did recommend we have sex more often! She said every other day starting around day 10 & keeping that up til CD 20! Jason starts his new round-the-clock work schedule next week, so we’ll see how those two things will go together! Guess we’ll see! Here’s hoping for a end of Apr or beginning of May ’11 baby!