Round 1...RESULTS ARE IN!

Round 1 failed...maybe. The spotting was indeed the first sign of my period coming. I'm now on my period, I think which means I have to go and pick up my 2nd round of Chlomid from the pharmacy so that I can start Round 2 on Day 3 of my cycle. Its too much brownish blood though. Could it be bleeding from anything else? I'm so sorry guys. I'm confused. I thought we were going to have a PPT on Christmas Day. Pray for me and my hubby who cannot understand what went wrong...

BUT, my husband just sent me this information from Google: "The irregular bleeding or spotting that can occur during pregnancy is often a dark brown or a light pinkish color. It should not be enough bleeding to fill pads or tampons over a few days. If you are bleeding enough to fill pads and tampons, then this would be a good indication that you are probably not pregnant."

He just told me to keep hope alive and observe over the next few days! 

Such a wonderful partner!!!

Spotting! Either Implantation or a Period!

TMI Alert: So i'm using the restroom and I look to see what the cervical mucus look like and this time it was brown. It looks like old blood. And so I wiped again and it was a piece of blood, like a small clot. But not a big piece is a tiny small piece. So the question is…could this be the beginning of my period Or could this be Implantation bleeding? 

My BBT spiked FINALLY

So last Wednesday, I showed you a positive OPK. The first thing I thought about is confirming the ovulation through the BBT test. So what is that you say? 

Well, everytime you ovulate, your body temperature at rest rises. So every morning faithfully at 7 am, like a job, I took my temperature. It's ALWAYS 97.7...EVERY Time! But today I saw 97.9 but I woke up an hour earlier. You supposed to take your temp at the same, so I'm assuming it probably would have been 98.0. This spike confirms that I ovulated at least 3-5 days ago! Now back to the waiting period!

The longest 2 weeks of my life

Well I got a solid positive ovulation test on both Dec 8 & 9 so I'm assuming I ovulated either Dec 10, 11 or 12. I told my husband to just make the deposit, we didn't need all the theatrics of music, candlelight and all that stuff! This week was business transactions only! I asked him if he was ok with being a "piece of meat" this week and he was more than happy to be a participant on this show! Now on Dec 13,14,15 I need to see a rise in my BBT to confirm I actually ovulated. And then, the wait!

Now, its the waiting period. Maybe the longest 2 weeks ever but I believe this is the only round of fertility meds we will need. I can start testing with First Response on Dec 25th...what an AWESOME GIFT that would be...And bitter sweet. WHEN I do get pregnant this cycle, this would mean another third trimester summer pregnancy. But remember how the last pregnancy ended? I will have almost the same exact due date as the previous pregnancy (plus or minus 7 days)! How's that for coincidence? Or serendipity? 

Anyway, if so, I know exactly when my cervix started to open, at week 19, which means, I will intentionally seek out a cerclage (stitch my cervix close until week 38) at week 14. I will also need to do bed rest from week 20. I got this now!

This post started off sad until....READ WHAT HAPPENED!

I'm so confused as to how this thing works. This is the seventh day in which I have seen high fertility on the clear blue digital OPK monitor but when I took a pregnancy test the test was negative. I wanted to get things off my mind so I rejoined LA fitness and just want to focus on getting my health together, so that I can be prepared to have a healthy pregnancy. So instead of focusing on the negative, I will focus on obtaining and maintaining optimal health and fitness and sound of mind. As I watch the news tonight, I see a story of a woman in Compton, California who threw her newborn baby in the sewer! These types of stories make me question God and ask Him why does He allow people like that to have a baby. But then I know better than to start questioning!

OH SNAP!!! This just in!!! Literally, as I was typing this blog I had just Peed on the stick to see if the ovulation test was still going to show high fertility (flashing smiley face). And to my surprise the FLASHING HAS STOPPED!!! I have officially reached peak fertility, which means let me get off here and um YOU KNOW!

5 days of Smiley faces!!!

I am growing more and more frustrated with this body of mine! Today, I took another Clearblue digital OPK and the smiley face was blinking for the 5th day in a row! The blinking smiley face mean high fertility or high estrogen and SUPPOSED to mean you are about to have a LH surge for ovulation to occur. Well, I have had no signs of ovulation either from cervical mucous or basal temperature. But I have to keep focusing on the fact that I HAVE been pregnant before and that thought of "maybe you can't get pregnant " no longer works! Now, the thought is, how many cycles is this gonna take? If I am not either ovulating or positive pregnancy test (remember Thanksgiving week when I was out of town and couldn't test or temp?), well its very possible I ovulated that week and if I did, I should have a positive pregnancy test (PPT) by Dec 14th. If its not, I will restart the chlomid cycle and here we go again!

After 10 months, I back!

So I took a break from ttc (trying to conceive) to focus on my foundation and get my head right. So I am going through a pretty tough time right now. I restarted Chlomid on Nov 13th which was CD5 for me and took 💊50mg for 5 days. I use Clearblue Digital OPK to get a more accurate reading. The 1st after my last pill I had a solid smiley face which means peak fertility. Well, thats too soon so I disregarded and BD every other day until the week of Thanksgiving happened!

So we went home for the holidays and which was the most critical week of all! I was supposed to ovulate any day between Nov 22nd - Nov 29th. Thanksgiving was Nov 24th, so we had to find creative ways to "make the deposit." And guess what, I left both my Digital OPK AND my thermometer do I could confirm ovulation. We arrived back home and I immediately tested. My digital OPK was blank face. My BBT was normal. I am left only wondering...