round 3, day 8

so... no luck last month. obviously. we're at day 8 of my cycle and this time around i'm using my now-pregnant friend's ovulation monitor. hopefully it will lessen the uncertainty around the peak days. of course another wrinkle in things is that i'm interviewing for a new job, and i'm not sure how thrilled i'd be to be pregnant when starting that (if it happens). but i guess we'll just see how it goes. the trying should start in a couple of days...

cycle 2

today -- day 14 -- wraps up our realistic chances of conceiving this cycle, and i'm feeling a bit better than last month's go around on all fronts. first of all, the hubby and i didn't have any arguments or tense moments this time, and secondly we hit almost all of our critical days... at least as far as i can tell with my own observations.

what was integral in this, i think, was my more relaxed attitude... particularly because it made me not feel the need to drag the mister into my hyper-anxious brain every second and suck all of the romance out of our sexual fun. i didn't even mention what day of the cycle it was or when i thought i ovulated this time. figured he'd do better without the pressure, and i was right. i know he's most likely aware that these past few days were "the" days -- he's pretty good with numbers and besides, it's not so often that i'm clamoring for sex every day. but we didn't talk about it. this may sound like avoidance, but for us i think it made sense.

next cycle, unless we get lucky this time, i'm going to hedge my bets a bit by starting to take my waking temp again and borrowing my friend's ovulation monitor. while this month was stress-free, i'm thinking this uncertainty and guesswork will take its toll pretty quickly. mgynecologist told me the same thing when i saw him last week. i took my temp this morning and -- based on when i used to do this consistently -- i am pretty sure it indicated that i ovulated, which i had already suspected happened sometime yesterday.

so here's what we're dealing with for round 2:
ovulation estimate: day 13
attempts: day 11, day 12, day 14

would've been nice to hit day 13, i suppose. but we're in the ballpark at least. and now for the waiting game... which will hopefully not turn me into such a complete lunatic at last time.

Round 2, Day 11

the next few days are our critical ones this month... and, i have to say, i'm so much more laissez-faire about it this time around. not sure if it's just because it doesn't feel so crazy and foreign anymore, or if i just have so much other stuff going on right now to take my mind off of it. in any case, our peak days happen to fall on the weekend, which makes "trying" frequently a much more relaxing endeavor. :) fun, fun, fun...

Round 2

Today is Day 7, and I'm gearing up to start Round 2 of our pregnancy project. I went to the gynecologist today for my yearly check-up and all seems to be in order. He recommended an ovulation monitor to decrease the pressure and uncertainty involved in the trying, which I may borrow from a friend, and said that he'd give it six months before worrying that something may be wrong. Six months seems like an eternity, but I know that some people have had to try for that long... or longer. Of course I'll hope that we're on the shorter end of the spectrum, but who knows?

So, here we go again...