And we're off

We'll it finally looks like I ovulated. Hubby breathed a sigh of relief when I told him. It seems baby making has been less exciting and more of a drudge than he was expecting.

I'm now in what they call the '2 week wait' period or 2WW. I'm not that patient though and there is no way I can wait two weeks. I've already been googling the earliest possible time that you can get a positive result from a pregnancy test and the answer seems to be 7 days. Pregnancy tests detect HCG levels which your body does not produce until after implantation occurs. The consensus seems to be that the earliest date for implantation is 6 days but for most women it happens between 8 and 10 days. So to avoid just completely throwing money away, I need to wait until Monday at the very least - every day after that is a bonus..

Whoever invented the early pregnancy test is an absolute genius. Instead of waiting until your period is late and taking the test to confirm what you already suspect, you get to buy dozen of tests over the months of trying to conceive (and I know I'm not the only mad women out there that goes test crazy!!)

It was Mother's day on Sunday. I feel a little strange about celebrating mothers day. I associate it with my mother and women of my mother's age. I feel too young to go for Mother's day lunch - with a 3 and 1 year old it would be too crazy anyway! No, we'll be leaving that one until the boys are old enough to organise it themselves - maybe I'll feel mature enough then... It was a great day though. I received two very cute hand made cards from my little boys which had their hand prints painted on them. Oh, and my not so subtle hint was picked up and I received the changing bag that I was after as a mother day gift - Yea!! It arrived a little late (Mental note- next time I blog my wish list, I must give more notice!!!). Love it though - it looks better than I expected.



Well must get back to google - need to check if 6 days dpo is reeeally the earliest possible date for implantation...

Getting started

Today I'm CD (cycle day) 4. This is the boring part - waiting. In the meantime, I have just signed up to Fertility Friend. As this is my first month charting in awhile there is not much information but you can see my chart here: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2d4dc3.



I've also signed up to some discussion groups so that I'll have some company when I get so obsessional my husband will no longer talk to me:
http://www.babyandbump.com/
http://www.rollercoaster.ie/
http://www.justmommies.com/

Here we go again...

I started planning for my first baby almost 6 years ago. We were supposedly not so much trying to conceive as just not actively avoiding pregnancy. I was completely relaxed, loads of time, if I found out that I couldn't have a baby it wouldn't have been the biggest tragedy (or so I thought...)

Hmm, that didn't last long. I stopped the pill and I think I secretly expected that I would get pregnant straight away. When that didn't happen, I went from completely relaxed to completely obsessionional. I starting reading up on everything to do with ovulation and conception and I started using Ovulation Predictor Kits (OPKs). When the OPKs started giving inconclusive results, I started to expect that I had PCOS - the joys of self diagnosis over the web!!! It took another few months and for my periods to completely stop before I could convince my GP to take the blood tests. The blood tests confirmed I did indeed have PCOS. I was referred to a Gynaecologist who recommended drugs to bring on a period and to stimulate ovulation but just as I was about to start I found out that I was pregnant!!!

Unfortunately, an early scan at 10 weeks detected that I had a blighted ovum (the pregnancy sac was still growing but there was no embryo). At this stage I was starting to lose it a bit. I was convinced there was something wrong with me and that I wouldn't be able to have a baby naturally. Hubby was much more relaxed but completely horrified when I told him we were being referred to a fertility clinic. He hated the idea of having to give samples and wanted to give the natural route a bit more time. Lucky for him, it took a couple of months to get an appointment and in the meantime I fell pregnant again. This time everything went ok and I gave birth to a cute baby boy 9 months later.

Baby two was much easier. I assumed it was going to be as difficult as the first time so decided I was going to actively try and not think about it and have no expectations for the first few months. It worked - a couple of weeks later I found out I was pregnant.

So, now we are about to start again. I'm feeling relaxed (let’s see how long that last this time!!!) I think trying to conceive, pregnancy, childbirth is all a very nutty time but as this will likely be my last time trying, I'm just going to succumb to the madness....