Hello all,
I'm on cycle #5, cd 15 and am trying to figure out when I ovulated,
if I did already. I expected to O on Thursday but no pain, no temperature
shift. So then I figured I'd O yesterday and I did actually see a tiny
amount of eggwhite cervical mucus but didn't really feel the pain. I had
moments of feeling pain in my right side but usually it is a constant
stabbing pain and this was intermittent. But my temp did jump this a.m. so
I think I did O yesterday or last night. We'll see. We "did it" Sunday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, so I think we covered all our bases.
I have been thinking a lot about this next year, lately. We will
only be living here in NY until July of 2000 because that's when Larry's
residency is up. At that point we plan/hope to move back to Maine. I will
be graduating in May, (16 weeks YAY), and that would give me a year to work
before we move. The plan was that I would get pg and not work for that year
but now that it's taken us this long I am starting to think about working
after all. If I got pg this month then the baby would be born in Oct so I
prob. wouldn't work because I doubt anyone would hire me if I were
noticeably pregnant and I wouldn't feel comfortable concealing it. If I get
pg next month it would be born in Nov. and I prob. wouldn't work for the
same reason. We plan to take March and April off from ttc because we don't
want to have the baby in Dec. or early Jan. because we want to travel to
Maine for Christmas. So that would make our next attempt in May which would
be when I would graduate and in that case I would definitely find a job.
This train of thought has helped me with my yearnings because part of me
would really like to get a job in my field (social work) and get some
experience before having a baby. Of course the bigger part of me wants to
be pg NOW so we'll see. I've been thinking though that if I don't get pg
this month or next I can concentrate on finding a job and that will keep me
busy and make it less awful to wait for pg. (Does that make any sense?? I
hope so). So I figure either way, pg or not, I'll have something to look
forward to and to keep me occupied.
The only other news since last I wrote is that I made an appt. with
a Naturopath (check out www.naturopathic.org for more info) for February
18th. I just got the paperwork in the mail and they ask a lot of questions,
which I think is great! I'm excited to see what she can do for me and I'll
let you all know as soon as I do. I have been taking 3000mg. of evening
primrose oil and also red clover capsules (can't remember the mgs.) to help
stimulate ewcm. I think it helped a little. You only take it until you O
or it can interfere with implantation, so I'm done with it for now. I've
also been drinking green tea because it's supposed to do something or other
that you want to have happen :-). I have been reading so much stuff and
trying this new stuff and sometimes it gets jumbled together and I forget
what I'm doing and why.
School starts on Wednesday :-( But it has to start in order to
finish so I'm ready. Did I ever post that I got a B in that awful, hard
policy class? Well, I did and boy was I thrilled!!! Ok, this is really
long so bye for now. Maybe I'll have some good news to report in a couple
of weeks.
|