Maybe He's Right So after LOTS of thinking, I have come to the conclusion that maybe Brad is right about waiting to try until after the first of the year. By then we should have the majority of my maternity leave saved up and then some!!! Hopefully we will actually get a tax refund next year too so that should make up the difference!! We should then be able to go shopping and get some of the "baby essentials"-I don't want to be too dependent on our families to buy us that type of stuff. Also if we conceive in January, we will be due close to our 4 year wedding anniversary-(9/2008 will make 10 years all together). I think that would be SOO sweet!!! I have the basal temp thing downpat now and hope my cycle returns to normal this month the way they were when I first went off the pill!! I think being so late last month was just a fluke!! This is all for now, just wanted to update : )
2007-10-15 (0 weeks)
More waiting! Okay, remember before our vacation when Brad said we could start trying after we got back? Well, now he is saying that is not what he meant. He said he meant that we could talk about trying when we got back. He also said that the Holidays are coming up and that it is going to be stressful, etc. and he wants to wait until the first of the year. Yeah, the Holidays are a generally stressful time for everyone, everywhere but I am getting a little weary of this waiting to try until he is ready business because he keeps putting it off. I am charting my basal temp. and taking prenatals every single day and I feel like I am doing it for nothing. If he does not get ready soon-really soon, I am going back on the pill!! Sorry I am being such a bear about this!!! I just had to vent a minute!
2007-10-04 (0 weeks)
Consultation Appointment
We went today for our Preconception Consultation. It went pretty much the way I had expected. He gave us a Basal Temperature Chart to use once my period is over. Oh, yeah, my period started today! I am so glad too! We did not really want to be pregnant just yet. I think I was late because of a few things: our recent vacation, I have lost a few pounds and have been working out harder and I work with a bunch of other women and our bodies are probably getting on the same cycle and the hormones that have been in my system from taking the pill for 9 years are probably almost gone, causing this to be my 1st cycle with little to no pill hormones to effect it.
2007-09-29 (0 weeks)
What? So I am confused! For those of you who have been keeping up with us in our journey to become parents, you know that since I went off of the pill in June, I have had 2 consecutive, regular 32 day cycles. That is why I am confused that I am now on day 36 and still no period! Gross, I know but I have been VERY slightly spotting. I have taken 2 HPT's and both were a BFN!! We have been careful because we have not been ready to start tyring so I doubted I was pregnant anyway, I just wanted to make sure. I did read that travel could effect your cycle and we just went on a trip to Gatlinburg (3 hours away from home) for our 3rd wedding anniversary from 9/22-9/26 (our anniversary was 9/25; my period was supposed to start 9/24). I am not used to starting late and yes, I have been a bit stressed and I know that can also delay it. I do feel like I am going to start it though. I just hope that this delay will not have an effect on us conceiving next month. I hope Brad is still ready to try then like we had talked about. He was so happy that we were not pregnant when I took the test! He said he wanted it to be planned and to know that we were actually trying to conceive when we conceive; confusing I know!! Our preconception consultation is Tuesday and I am so excited!! If I do not start by then I know I will want to know if it is normal for a woman to skip a period every now and again and if so, does she ovulate? I know we cannot get pregnant of I am not ovulating.........I also know that we just need to trust in God that it will all be okay and that it will work out for the best!
