(cycle 11, day 7)
well in my wait for a baby, i've decided to do something to help pass the time (as if i don't already have enough to do) and help me get in shape and help attain a goal of mine that i've been wanting to accomplish for the last 2+ years.
i've been hearing a lot about this "couch to 5k" program that helps get people active. little did i know that i've actually been doing a very similar technique already. its easier than i thought it would be and i hope to continue with it and actually be able to complete the full 9 weeks without quiting. hopefully i also some of the weight i've put on in the last 6 months. i hope i don't have to abondon this endevour in the event i do get pregnant in the near future, but i should at least be able to stay active so i don't turn into a blob...
so far i've finished week 1 and i think i'm going to try and finish the 9 weeks before its actually been 9 weeks by going out more than 3 times a week. i have until september 30th to finish this (i know that's actually 10 weeks, but i'll be in new brunswick for a week so i'll take that week off or at least not track it if i do get some in while we're there). i hope i can finish by the middle of september, but we'll see. i'm just glad i'm finally doing this!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
date nights
(cycle 11, day 6)
i love date nights, especially random ones that just kinda happen.
it was so nice out last wednesday and there weren't any misquitoes out yet, i suggested we go golfing since we have yet to do that just us, let alone me go again since my first time out on the course. turned out to be ladies night so golfing was out. i suggested a bike ride because of the nice weather and hubby suggested renting a move (harry potter and the deathly hallows pt1). so we got out the bikes and went out.
it was nice cuz we got to talk the entire time and just enjoy being out doing something together. it was like we were back in mexico (which i still have to blog about...) when we biked around the Coba ruins. as we got closer to the movie store, all hubby could smell was KFC so we decided after getting some movies, we'd go have KFC for supper and then bike home to watch the movie. it was just a nice relaxing night and i loved every minute of it : )
i love date nights, especially random ones that just kinda happen.
it was so nice out last wednesday and there weren't any misquitoes out yet, i suggested we go golfing since we have yet to do that just us, let alone me go again since my first time out on the course. turned out to be ladies night so golfing was out. i suggested a bike ride because of the nice weather and hubby suggested renting a move (harry potter and the deathly hallows pt1). so we got out the bikes and went out.
it was nice cuz we got to talk the entire time and just enjoy being out doing something together. it was like we were back in mexico (which i still have to blog about...) when we biked around the Coba ruins. as we got closer to the movie store, all hubby could smell was KFC so we decided after getting some movies, we'd go have KFC for supper and then bike home to watch the movie. it was just a nice relaxing night and i loved every minute of it : )
Thursday, July 21, 2011
so much for being hopeful....
(cycle 11, day 1 ???)
well my temp has dropped each of the last 3 days to the point that i'm now basically back to pre-O temps. so i'm pretty certain that AF is going to show up any time now. i'm not sure how to feel since i knew that cycle was a long shot but i wanted to be hopeful only because it is taking so long for anything positive to happen and i want to be genuinely excited about something. the only other times i've been that excited was getting HayHay, when we were getting married (like the whole process, from engagement to wedding day to the san diego honeymoon), and winning that lottery. buying my first car and my first neice being born are close, but not the giddy exictement i'll have when i see that first BFP.
so i'm not sure what to do now.... we really are getting close to that infamous one year mark but our problem isn't that one of us might be infertile, our problem is a lack of BDing because of a lack of sex drive (i know it's probably not what you want to read about, but its a fact). i think i might book an appt with my doctor to get my physical done and if i'm preg by then i'll turn it into a prenatal appt, if i'm not, i'll be asking questions about our issues and see if there is anything they recommend to help us get that baby sooner. it sucks that i'm even thinking about resorting to a doctor when it should just be a matter of letting it happen and it happens. it's almost like a knife to the heart.
this cycle, i'm pulling out all the stops i can as well as getting some OPKs and continuing BBT charting in hopes that this is our last month of trying and i don't have AF while on holidays in new brunswick.
ETA: i finally found a website with cheap tests!!! do you have any idea how excited that makes me? any kind of test is crazy expensive to buy in stores and at this site they're a fraction of the cost and i can get a combo kit that has OPKs (which i want to try out this month) as well as HPTs and they'll show up before i'm even close to Oing this cycle and cost me next to nothing to ship : )
well my temp has dropped each of the last 3 days to the point that i'm now basically back to pre-O temps. so i'm pretty certain that AF is going to show up any time now. i'm not sure how to feel since i knew that cycle was a long shot but i wanted to be hopeful only because it is taking so long for anything positive to happen and i want to be genuinely excited about something. the only other times i've been that excited was getting HayHay, when we were getting married (like the whole process, from engagement to wedding day to the san diego honeymoon), and winning that lottery. buying my first car and my first neice being born are close, but not the giddy exictement i'll have when i see that first BFP.
so i'm not sure what to do now.... we really are getting close to that infamous one year mark but our problem isn't that one of us might be infertile, our problem is a lack of BDing because of a lack of sex drive (i know it's probably not what you want to read about, but its a fact). i think i might book an appt with my doctor to get my physical done and if i'm preg by then i'll turn it into a prenatal appt, if i'm not, i'll be asking questions about our issues and see if there is anything they recommend to help us get that baby sooner. it sucks that i'm even thinking about resorting to a doctor when it should just be a matter of letting it happen and it happens. it's almost like a knife to the heart.
this cycle, i'm pulling out all the stops i can as well as getting some OPKs and continuing BBT charting in hopes that this is our last month of trying and i don't have AF while on holidays in new brunswick.
ETA: i finally found a website with cheap tests!!! do you have any idea how excited that makes me? any kind of test is crazy expensive to buy in stores and at this site they're a fraction of the cost and i can get a combo kit that has OPKs (which i want to try out this month) as well as HPTs and they'll show up before i'm even close to Oing this cycle and cost me next to nothing to ship : )
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
come on BFP!!!
(cycle 10, day 30)
i'm still not sure how many dpo i am. i'm either 11, 13 or 15 dpo but i'm inclined to ignore the later O date so i'm either 13 or 15 dpo. which means i either should have gotten a BFP or AF by now, neither of which have happened. maybe FF is right and i did O on cd19 so AF would be showing up on thursday, but that still doesn't seem right to anyone.
i ended up testing on saturday, but not to my surprise, it was a BFN. however AF hadn't arrived like she would on sunday if my O date was cd15. so i tested again this morning and as far as i could see, it was another BFN and still no sign of AF which would be bound to happen today if my O date happened to be cd17. sorry for all the numbers, i know it can get confusing...
i'm unusally non-irritable this month unlike other months ahead of AF and so far in the last 9 cycles, she's only completely caught me off guard and unprepared (though i always had supplies, but had to secretly obtain them and go back to the washroom right away) when showing up a handful of times. other times i either had a huge temp drop while charting or i had at least some spotting for at least a couple hours before so i knew to be ready and had supplies in place instead of only in my purse or in the cupboard. so far, nothing. i have had a couple days where i felt slightly nauseous or anything else related to pregnancy, but today, not much of that or anything else really. just a small temp drop but no where close to my coverline and still high enough to be considered triphasic if sticking with the cd15 O date. actually right now, my left mipple is sore, odd....
anyway, that's my rambling for today and i hope i have something to update in the coming days and i hope its good news and that evil wench coming to town again. man do i hate her : P
i'm still not sure how many dpo i am. i'm either 11, 13 or 15 dpo but i'm inclined to ignore the later O date so i'm either 13 or 15 dpo. which means i either should have gotten a BFP or AF by now, neither of which have happened. maybe FF is right and i did O on cd19 so AF would be showing up on thursday, but that still doesn't seem right to anyone.
i ended up testing on saturday, but not to my surprise, it was a BFN. however AF hadn't arrived like she would on sunday if my O date was cd15. so i tested again this morning and as far as i could see, it was another BFN and still no sign of AF which would be bound to happen today if my O date happened to be cd17. sorry for all the numbers, i know it can get confusing...
i'm unusally non-irritable this month unlike other months ahead of AF and so far in the last 9 cycles, she's only completely caught me off guard and unprepared (though i always had supplies, but had to secretly obtain them and go back to the washroom right away) when showing up a handful of times. other times i either had a huge temp drop while charting or i had at least some spotting for at least a couple hours before so i knew to be ready and had supplies in place instead of only in my purse or in the cupboard. so far, nothing. i have had a couple days where i felt slightly nauseous or anything else related to pregnancy, but today, not much of that or anything else really. just a small temp drop but no where close to my coverline and still high enough to be considered triphasic if sticking with the cd15 O date. actually right now, my left mipple is sore, odd....
anyway, that's my rambling for today and i hope i have something to update in the coming days and i hope its good news and that evil wench coming to town again. man do i hate her : P
Thursday, July 14, 2011
2 posts in 2 days? wha???
(cycle 10, day 25, 10? dpo)
well FF has kind of failed me. i'm sure i O'd no later than CD17, possibly CD15 (thanks to the ladies on MH who mostly all believe it was CD15 when they've looked at my chart). due to the BBTs i've had the last two days, they've decided that i O'd on CD19 in which case there is no shot at a baby this month...
because all my temps after CD17 are above any temps i had before that, i don't believe what FF has given me. i want to say i O'd CD17 because of my CM pattern, but my temps point to CD15. if i overide FF to either of those days, they give me 'good' odds at a pregnancy this cycle, not 'great' due to lack of BDing, but at least i'm getting 'good' this month. that's only happened 1-2 times since i started charting last december (which is incredibly frustrating when all i want is for us to be parents).
so now, here i sit at either 6, 8 or 10 DPO. that gives me a testing date of either next monday, wednesday or friday depending on which O day you go with. my gut tells me i Od on CD17 so i would be 8dpo right now, but i'm also favouring what the girls in MH are saying and go with an O date of CD15 and 10dpo. i want to test on saturday along with some of the girls in the 2WW thread on MH (who are all so supportive and i'm thankful to have them to talk to since no one i personally know is going through this same thing) but i don't want to disappoint myself if its a BFN. there are 2 reasons that can happen: #1, to early to test or #2, i'm not pregnant. tests aren't cheap here so i don't want to waste them! this time, however i will buying a first response (pink dye test) instead of clear blue (blue dye test) since it looked like it would never be positvie because of the very obvious BFNs and didn't look like there was even a space for the second line to show up.
well FF has kind of failed me. i'm sure i O'd no later than CD17, possibly CD15 (thanks to the ladies on MH who mostly all believe it was CD15 when they've looked at my chart). due to the BBTs i've had the last two days, they've decided that i O'd on CD19 in which case there is no shot at a baby this month...
because all my temps after CD17 are above any temps i had before that, i don't believe what FF has given me. i want to say i O'd CD17 because of my CM pattern, but my temps point to CD15. if i overide FF to either of those days, they give me 'good' odds at a pregnancy this cycle, not 'great' due to lack of BDing, but at least i'm getting 'good' this month. that's only happened 1-2 times since i started charting last december (which is incredibly frustrating when all i want is for us to be parents).
so now, here i sit at either 6, 8 or 10 DPO. that gives me a testing date of either next monday, wednesday or friday depending on which O day you go with. my gut tells me i Od on CD17 so i would be 8dpo right now, but i'm also favouring what the girls in MH are saying and go with an O date of CD15 and 10dpo. i want to test on saturday along with some of the girls in the 2WW thread on MH (who are all so supportive and i'm thankful to have them to talk to since no one i personally know is going through this same thing) but i don't want to disappoint myself if its a BFN. there are 2 reasons that can happen: #1, to early to test or #2, i'm not pregnant. tests aren't cheap here so i don't want to waste them! this time, however i will buying a first response (pink dye test) instead of clear blue (blue dye test) since it looked like it would never be positvie because of the very obvious BFNs and didn't look like there was even a space for the second line to show up.
i guess i'll wait for my next two temps to decide what i'm going to do, but i think i'll be buying some tests tomoro incase i decide to do one on saturday. if they are still quite high, i think i may have a triphasic chart (a very good pregnancy sign, not definate, due to increased progestrone, the pregnancy hormone) if i O'd on CD15 like the case seems to be. we'll see.....
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| ovulation crosshairs on CD15, overiden from FF |
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
It's Been A While
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| my sisters birthday cupcakes |
(cycle 10, day 24, 7 dpo)
i'm getting terrible at updating, lol.
not much has gone on, well actually that's a lie, its been very busy lately, lol.
first we had my sister's bday supper, just the 4 of us and my mom. i made cupcakes with my cousin Hanna that weekend and got to try out fondant. i mostly did it so i could try it out for when i do my mom's cake this week. that stuff is awesome! it tastes so yummy, just a very thick version of buttercream icing. but i think when i do my moms cake, i might need to make it a bit thicker cuz it was pretty flimsy on my first attempt.
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| HayHay swimming |
since that weekend, its been a little less busy, not much, but a little. now we're in full planning/prep mode for my moms bday party this weekend. we've got most the supplies except the buns for burgers/hotdogs and cheese. i'll be glad with this over because a certain family member has kind of ruined it for me and my sister. i'm not planning another family bday again that's for sure. only for sean and my future kids. this week i still have to bake and decorate the cake (which i can't wait to do) and then help my aunt set up saturday morning. i'm looking forward to next week when we won't be so busy....
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