this was our first cycle, post-surgery, to TTC again. it has been sort of exciting to feel hopeful and optimistic, though i am definitely keeping myself under control when it comes to expectations.
i've been using the clearblue easy ovulation monitor for a long while, now. even before we were TTC i was using it for birth control, and to let it get to know my body. while it's very well-reviewed and my ob-gyn and even the fertility doc said it was a great tool to use, the fertility doc said we shouldn't take it as law. he said, given that my cycles are fairly regular, that we should just starting trying around day 10 from now on.
so i went back and looked at my charts from previous months, and i found a couple of cycles that didn't make much sense. of course there is some variation expected in everyone's cycle, but typically (from what i've read) the luteal phase (time between ovulation and getting your period) is generally consistent in each woman, even if the time of ovulation and cycle length varies a bit. over the past 14 cycles that i've charted, my luteal phase is almost always 14 days. but last month, for example, the monitor said i ovulated on day 12/13, yet my cycle was only 24 days, meaning my luteal phase was only 11(ish) days long. that seems way too short for me, indicating that i probably ovulated earlier than the monitor said. this happened two other times over the past 14 cycles, too, and i know there were months when i was caught off-guard by the monitor's timing. so, as it turns out, i'm glad i tried to get back in touch with my body this month.
truth be told, it wasn't an intentional TTC try that got us going this cycle... it just so happened that day 9 fell on the first weekend since my period ended and we were allowed to have sex after the surgery. so that wasn't too difficult. by yesterday i was having serious ovulation cramps, the worst i've had in a long time, and i definitely felt ovulatory... but the monitor still said low fertility! sure enough, today it jumped to ovulation mode, completely skipping the "high fertility" day that usually precedes it. so i guess it's possible that i ovulated today, but i actually feel like it happened yesterday and that the monitor dropped the proverbial ball this month, somehow.
in any case... here's what we've got:
cycle 1 of phase 2 (post-surgery)
O Days: 11? 12, 13
Attempts: 9, 10, 11, 12
and maybe we'll give it a shot tomorrow, too, though it's going to be a busy day and night, so that might be it for this round. but it was a late afternoon try today, so even if today/tomorrow are the actual O days (according to the monitor), we hit them right in the middle, which is perfect. i feel really good about this try... we definitely did our best. and now the two-week wait begins again! i will try not to obsess this time around. we still have a plan in place, and i like plans. plus there's so much going on these next couple of weeks... i'm sure they will fly by!
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