CD 14 - Temp dip

Had a great sleep last night, I think I slept all night.  Got up went to the bathroom, actually remembered to pee in a cup to take my OPK this morning, but forgot to take my temp.  So I went back to take my temp and it was 96.6.  I woke up to a cold house, so I was kind of expecting a low temp.  Did not think it would be that low though, even after I got u walked to the bathroom and back it was still that low?

I have not had any EWCM yet this cycle, but I checked my CP last night before BD and I am pretty sure it was high medium/soft and open.  It wasn't as soft as it has been in the past but it was close.  Maybe I am ovulating today but I am not sure.  I will have to wait a few days to tell.

On another note, I have been thinking about starting a new blog.  A Pregnancy/Baby wish list blog.  There are a few things I have found online or seen in the mall and thought to myself, I am going to buy that when I am pregnant.  I do not want to forget anything so I thought I would start a blog about it and see if anyone else has used them, heard of them, and their opinions.  Here is the first thing that will be on my list:

A bando that goes over your jeans if you can't button them up, lol.  I think it's great, I want one now! 

Tanning and TTC

The weather here has been nice enough for shorts the last few weeks which means people see my white legs.  At the start of every summer I like to go for a few tans (tanning bed) to get some colour.  I went once last week then DH and I went on Saturday for another tan.  I only tan maybe once or twice a week for about a month.  Now I am wondering does tanning in a tanning bed effect TTC at all?  I am curious if it is bad for males because I read that heat is not good for the sperm, should I ask DH to stop tanning?  I googled it but mixed reviews.  It can lower sperm count according to some people.  Anyone else tan while TTC?

Preseed Not Working For Us, and Ovulating Early?

Today is CD 11 and according to our SMEP schedule we should have BD last night, but I was studying for my exam all night and was too tired when I finally went to bed.  Since it was only CD 10 last night I figured we still had a few days until I ovulated anyways.  When I woke up this morning, I took my temp right away and it was 96.8, which is my usual temp right before ovulation.  I was so upset when I realized that I might have missed our chance this month, even though we BD on CD 8.  So DH and I decided to quickly BD before my 9am exam lol.  He is a morning person, and I am a night person, but apparently sperm count is higher in the morning?  I decided to give the Preseed another chance, I used a smaller amount than last time, no bigger than a pea.  DH was not enjoying the BDing, it felt too wet to him (and was taking forever) sorry for the TMI.  I am honestly no longer a fan of Preseed and will not be using it again.

It is now 9pm on CD 11 and I have been having some pains in my right side on and off for about an hour.    I typically ovulate on CD 17, and I always have EWCM before ovulation.  So far this cycle I have not had any EWCM.  So again, I am not sure what is going on with my body.  I do feel a little more relaxed this cycle knowing that DH is here and we can actually BD around my fertile period.  I did take an OPK this morning, and it was negative.  This cycle is going by fast... looking forward to seeing if the cycle never ends :)

Stephanie

CD 8 - Let the SMEP begin!

Today is CD 8, first day of our SMEPing plan.  I also started using my OPK this morning as well since I have quite a few of them.  There was a faint line there, but negative for sure.  I am hoping that I ovulate a little earlier this cycle, maybe around CD 15ish, because I am impatient lol.  Found out today that DH is heading back overseas for work on June 19.  So we will definitely get to go through this whole cycle together.  Tonight when we BD we tried preseed for the first time... I am not sure if we are fans of it.  I do not think we needed it, but I wanted to try it anyways.  I used only a very little amount but it felt weird down there as if I used too much.  I have not had any EWCM so far this cycle so I am not in my fertile days I know that much, but practice makes perfect right? lol. I find it very odd that we are planning and scheduling sex according to my cycle, but we are willing to try the SMEP this cycle so we will see how it goes.

I wanted to track my CP everyday of this cycle but I find it so hard to tell recently.  I have not been adding it to FF as it feels like it is all over the place each day.  Temping I have been doing, most days.  I do find temping a little stressful though.  When I am sleeping I find myself looking at the clock every few hours so that I dont miss 6:50 when my alarm goes off and it's time to take my temp. I think that most stressful part is knowing that I have to have a solid 3 hour sleep before taking my temp.  I have not been sleeping well at night for the past few months.  I think since I stopped working out.  Sports are picking up now so I hope I can start to sleep well at night again.

On another note, I finished my first bottle of prenatal vitamins (100 pills) this week, so I hope that means that my body is ready for a baby now :)

CD 4 - Roller Coaster Weekend

I have had a very long weekend filled with an emotional roller coaster ride.  It all started with a stressful day at work on Friday.  Friday's at work for me are always a very busy day.  That is the day that all of my financial reports are due for work to be reviewed by the president.  Everyone else in my office gets to enjoy a Friday afternoon and look forward to the weekend, but I never do.  So anyways Friday was not going well for me, just felt like I was running out of time all day long.  Then at 5pm, when I was leaving work for the weekend I decided to check my facebook quickly as I walked to my vehicle. And what do I see... my cousin announces her pregnancy (12 weeks, 3 days).  I was happy for her, but for some reason I was so upset and had a few tears.  I felt like whoa hey isn't it my turn, she already has a little boy.  I know I shouldn't feel like that, but it is hard to see others get pregnant and not me.  I thought for sure that we timed it perfectly last cycle, but obviously it didn't work for us.

When I got home from work, my husband had a really good supper (pork tenderloin) ready on the table.  So we ate dinner and sat down to watch some tv together.  We decided to go to Toronto Saturday morning for some shopping so we went to bed early Friday so that we could get up really early to drive to Toronto.  At this point I was still only spotting very little before we went to bed that night.  Later that night, the AF cramps came so quickly and painful i couldn't sleep.  I tossed and turned for an hour then got up.  I find that if I sit up on the couch sometimes it relieves some of the pain, but that was no working.  Then I had the hottest bath ever and had some advil then got some sleep.  So that was how my Friday night went.  Then came Saturday morning... we did not leave early for Toronto since I was up all night, I slept in late.   On Saturday the temperature was supposed to be around 30 degrees C, so for the first time this year, I needed to take out my summer clothes.  That was a bad idea.

Last summer I got married so I worked out like crazy, had soccer twice a week, and baseball twice a week, and was on the treadmill everyday, so I obviously lost weight and was a size 6-8.  After a full time job and school work all winter and spring... I am no longer a size 6-8.  I am more like a 10 (tight) now.  So trying to fit into my summer clothes from last summer was very depressing.  I knew that I have been slacking in the workouts (more like not doing them at all), and eating un healthy, but I didn't realize how much my weight had changed until I tried on my summer clothes.  It took me about 2 hours to get dressed Saturday morning, and of course every outfit I tried on I would ask my husband if it made me look fat, and he would say no, but I knew he was lying.  So i ended up wearing black yoga pants (sweat pants capris) and a black long sleeve shirt.  Then we drove to Toronto, we always decided that since it took my so long to get dressed that we would get a hotel room in Toronto for the night because I hate to drive at night.  When we got to Toronto it was sooo hot, and me dressed in all black was even hotter.  So I decided to try on shorts and tank tops so that I could change.  That didn't not go well either.  Nothing was fitting well.  So we went into Lulu Lemon and I spent $150 on 1 workout tank top, a pair or shots and a headband.  That was all I bought that weekend pretty much.  We decided to go to Red Lobester for dinner.  I never drink, but i decided to order a Mango Mai tia, or whatever it is called, and I ate shrimp.

Well today is my first day of soccer practice and I am excited to start my workout for the summer.   Shoot, this post was long and now I am running late, lol.

Cd 2

Well the witch got me good this month. Had some bad cramps yesterday night and AF showed up same time. Was up all night with bad cramps. Had the hottest bath ever at midnight to try to knock me out so that I could sleep a little. Worked for a bit then started eating my multigrain tostitos chips and cranberry juice. Then I googled to see if someone found a cure for cramps yet... No such luck. Maybe tomorrow there will be a cure for it. New cycle anyways. Going to try really hard this whole cycle to get pregnant.

14 DPO... Still only spotting

I am still only spotting very little.  When I enter "spotting" in FF, it still does not give me a new cycle?  Should I enter it as light, so that my new cycle will start?  Now I just want to start another cycle so that I can count down to ovulation again.