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Proudgrits is Preggers

Hoping and hopping

You should've seen me today, hopping around and praising God for THIS!!



I honestly cannot believe it. I peed in a cup and dipped the thingy in there and before I even laid the darn thing down, the control turned blue and low and behold...a second line began to emerge! Like, instantly!!

I said, "No way," and was looking back and forth between the instructions and the test. It is so surreal, thinking you'll see another negative, yet hoping upon hope that your suspicions are right...and then there's this second line. A really obivous line.

I had to leave the bathroom and come back again, just to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me!! I held that thing up and analyzed it and blinked and grinned...and went running for the camera, saying, "This can't be happeneing!!"

For the pictures, I wrote 9-2 on the sticks and as I did I said, "I wonder if the date is significant."

All the sudden it hit me...

9 + 2 = 11

Eleven is our number.

I said, "Lord, you are too funny!!" And then I just praised Him and praised Him.

I still can't believe it. It "took" on the first try TWICE!

I'm a bundle of emotions. I'll keep writing soon. For tonight, I'm achy and tired and so happy!!

Hoping still

Based on my loose calculations, I'm about 14 days post-ov and no period yet. Feeling tired and crampy but that can be pregnancy or impending period, so that's no help. No spotting, though. I'm betting I ovulated later than I think I did.
I took a $1 test this a.m. and it was clearly negative. I'll give it a day or two and test again but after that, I'll know it didn't "take."
I hate waiting.
But God's plan is best and I'm OK with whatever. Really.

hoo-eee!!

Wow, I seemed super-duper-fertile yesterday. Like, needed a mini pad fertile. I had shooting pains in my pelvis, which was odd, and a dull ache on my right side, like ovulatory pain.
THEN, there was a teensy bit of blood once when I went to the bathroom. That's a sign of the hormones shift associated with ovulation--the estrogen dropping before the progesterone takes over. I hope so, at least. Our "timing" should've been just right, although unless I've totally dried up, we'll try again tonight, just in case.
Oh, last night I woke up burning hot, too, which could also be a clue that I ovluated.
Yes, I need to start charting again. Sigh....
**ADDED LATER**
I do seem dry today! Weird!! I bet I ovulated yesterday!!
OR...my estrogren tried to peak and release an egg but didn't quite make it. So either we did well or we'll get another chance--either way, it's good!!
**ADDED EVEN LATER**
I did end up with some white, sticky fluid--definitely not dry. Maybe I didn't ovulate yet.

Try, try again

Well, yesterday was our first time "trying" since the miscarriage. We're only about 20 days into this cycle, which is fairly early for me to ovulate, but maybe I'm functioning more normally now. I certainly seemed fertile, but that's been known to last for a week or more. I figure we'll try the every-other-day technique until the weekend, when I'll be gone. We've got to at least give God a fighting chance!!
I sent out a plea to pray today, too, for health and protection, even this early in the game. It's really more important now than ever. Those early weeks are so, so fragile. So...we'll see, as always, how it goes.

Cycle starting July 30

So I'm aiming to lose 15 lbs.
Maybe before getting pregnant...maybe not. If the goal gets interrupted, that's fine, but if I don't get pregnant, I'll push ahead and shoot for the 155lb. mark. I've already dropped 2-3 just within the week or so since I started cutting back and I feel better already, too. A LOT less fast food, junk food and sugar. No wonder I feel better!!

In other news, this is looking like a fertile cycle. I'm a little over a week past my period ending--12 days into this cycle, total--and the fluid is on the rise!! Yesterday, it hit me in the leg again, but it was the beige, stringy kind--not truly fertile. But still. Maybe my hormones are normalizing.
So we'll take it a day at a time. I'm thinking we'll do the "not trying, not preventing" tactic this cycle. I've been known to plan for that, then know I'm fertile and TRY anyway. It'd hard not to, with as well as I know my body.

I like to keep track of this, too:

Conceive in Aug...due in May
Conceive in Sept.....due in June
Conceive in Oct...due in July...

and so on. Approximately.

With Monkey, I got pregnant on or very near to Feb. 27 and gave birth Nov. 26. Almost 9 months to the day from conception to birth.

Best-case scenario and IF we got pregnant this cycle, I doubt I'd know I was pregnant before September, but I probably would conceive in August. May would be nice!! A summer due date...yikes. But after a miscarriage, you know I'll never be picky again!!

Recommendation

"There really isn’t a magic number when it comes to how long to wait, but most doctors and midwives suggest waiting at least two or three menstrual cycles after a miscarriage to allow the uterus and endometrial lining to become healthy again."

Well. Mine isn't back to normal yet, I'm afraid. Lots and lots of clotting. I think I'm still purging. I'm not done yet. Not healthy enough. Not getting pregnant this cycle.