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Well, AF held of the entire vacation. We arrived home Friday at 2 am and as soon as I did a HPT AF was here. I am glad though that she held off till we got home and didn't spoil our vaca.
So another cycle starts. I started back on my prenatal vitamin and supplements and think I will use the Clear Plan Fertility Monitor this month.
Also, Josh took his test from the Fertell couples test kit and he "passed" :o)
We keep hoping and praying!
Friday, September 28, 2007
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Waiting game!
We are in the wait, yet again this month. Luckily I have been focusing so much on WDW that it is now the time that AF is due...we will see. I am feeling great aside from some cramping. We are praying, but I do have the supplies I need packed in case she (AF) decides to show her ugly face on our trip, grrr! On that note, we leave tomorrow for DISNEY!!!!!!!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
WDW
We are leaving for Walt Disney World in 12 days, wahooo! I am so excited, I have never been. We are flying out with my sister and Bil. Staying in different hotels, meeting up at times and both celebrating our anniversaries their 2nd on 9/17 and we are celebrating ours early, our first anniversary is 11/4. We'll be in Disney till the evening of 9/20 and they will leave the next morning.
I can't wait :o)
I can't wait :o)
A little about us
Jill is 3o years old (31 in 3 months). I have type II Diabetes (since 2000) . I worried that having Diabetes will make it harder for me, but have since found a great web board of Diabetic Mom's who prove otherwise. I am also overweight and know that can sometimes make it harder so I exercise and watch what I eat (fun to have to count carbs everyday of your life and then to count calories and fat too, lol!)
Josh is 33 years old. When he was 19 he had surgery to remove his colon, he has something like Familial Polyposis. He remembers the doctor saying that he had a 15% chance of having children (which he told me when he met me). That scared me at first because I always knew I wanted children, but we said, well if we can't have them together, we will adopt. That is when I knew how much I loved him. His mother has since told him that the doctors said that everything went well with his surgery then and that he shouldn't have any problems conceiving a child.
So I think we both do the back and forth worrying, is it me?
Hopefully it is neither and the right moment just hasn't happened yet. If we get to a year of trying, we will do further testing.
Right now, we are just having fun :O)
Josh is 33 years old. When he was 19 he had surgery to remove his colon, he has something like Familial Polyposis. He remembers the doctor saying that he had a 15% chance of having children (which he told me when he met me). That scared me at first because I always knew I wanted children, but we said, well if we can't have them together, we will adopt. That is when I knew how much I loved him. His mother has since told him that the doctors said that everything went well with his surgery then and that he shouldn't have any problems conceiving a child.
So I think we both do the back and forth worrying, is it me?
Hopefully it is neither and the right moment just hasn't happened yet. If we get to a year of trying, we will do further testing.
Right now, we are just having fun :O)
Our TTC journey
Our TTC (trying to concieve) journey began around January 14th. We just decided to start trying!
February rolled around and my cycle that month was the longest cycle I probably ever had (over 55 days) which encompassed March as well. I tested this month thinking wow this would be great if it happened this quickly, but the tests were all BFN (big fat negatives). I even had a HCG blood test too, that confirmed it as negative.
I finally started another cycle and another and another. Each month I felt different "symptoms", but nothing.
Around the third cycle ttc I started using the Clear Plan Easy Fertility Monitor and that first month it showed a couple low fertility days then all the rest were high days, no LH surge. Then the next month I got a surge, I was so excited. That showed that I was ovulating. I have since learned my ovulation signs.
Along the way I started taking a Prenatal vitamin and Folic acid. Then I had added in some supplements, like Vitex, Evening Primrose oil, Vitamin B6, baby Aspirin, progesterone cream (I am sure there were one or two other).
I also began doing BBT (Basal Body Temperature) each morning before getting out of bed and recording that and the results of the fertility monitor on Fertilityfriend.com. I felt like I was always testing something and charting, etc...
So starting 2 cycles ago I decided I'd take a break from that and just relax as best I could and enjoy our time together and our ttc journey. I stopped taking the supplements too due to the fact that each day when I took them, that was all I cold think about...ttc.
I found a great product along the way, Fertell. It is a couples fertility test you do at home. I did an FSH test on cycle day 3 and all looked well. Josh tried his test, but it was faulty so the company quickly sent another. He still needs to complete his test.
I was getting obsessed with ttc. I still think about it a lot, but have come to realize that obsessing about it (it's so hard not too)will not help.
I believe in good time, when God feels it is time, our miracle will be created.
Now, while the months move by, we have talked about things as a couple, about how we want to raise a child, names etc... We cleaned out our spare bedroom to be a nursery someday. We have accumulated some baby things and they sit waiting in the "nursery". Some people say they think that having a room ready or baby stuff will jinx it. I don't believe that. This is what gets me through the waiting. I have already decided the room will have a ducky/farm animal theme. When we first started ttc I bought a little Carter's ducky outfit that says "I love my mommy" I have that outfit set aside waiting for the day the our little one will come home in it. I just have to believe it will happen.
We have done our share of worrying and what ifs, but we have decided together, that one way or the other we will be parents.
It has been 8 months, but about 6 actual cycles of ttc. So I researched OB/GYNs in the NH area instead of the Boston area and have found a few. I don't think anything will be done without a year of trying and even then I'm not sure about our insurance. So I am giving it a few more months and keep praying.
February rolled around and my cycle that month was the longest cycle I probably ever had (over 55 days) which encompassed March as well. I tested this month thinking wow this would be great if it happened this quickly, but the tests were all BFN (big fat negatives). I even had a HCG blood test too, that confirmed it as negative.
I finally started another cycle and another and another. Each month I felt different "symptoms", but nothing.
Around the third cycle ttc I started using the Clear Plan Easy Fertility Monitor and that first month it showed a couple low fertility days then all the rest were high days, no LH surge. Then the next month I got a surge, I was so excited. That showed that I was ovulating. I have since learned my ovulation signs.
Along the way I started taking a Prenatal vitamin and Folic acid. Then I had added in some supplements, like Vitex, Evening Primrose oil, Vitamin B6, baby Aspirin, progesterone cream (I am sure there were one or two other).
I also began doing BBT (Basal Body Temperature) each morning before getting out of bed and recording that and the results of the fertility monitor on Fertilityfriend.com. I felt like I was always testing something and charting, etc...
So starting 2 cycles ago I decided I'd take a break from that and just relax as best I could and enjoy our time together and our ttc journey. I stopped taking the supplements too due to the fact that each day when I took them, that was all I cold think about...ttc.
I found a great product along the way, Fertell. It is a couples fertility test you do at home. I did an FSH test on cycle day 3 and all looked well. Josh tried his test, but it was faulty so the company quickly sent another. He still needs to complete his test.
I was getting obsessed with ttc. I still think about it a lot, but have come to realize that obsessing about it (it's so hard not too)will not help.
I believe in good time, when God feels it is time, our miracle will be created.
Now, while the months move by, we have talked about things as a couple, about how we want to raise a child, names etc... We cleaned out our spare bedroom to be a nursery someday. We have accumulated some baby things and they sit waiting in the "nursery". Some people say they think that having a room ready or baby stuff will jinx it. I don't believe that. This is what gets me through the waiting. I have already decided the room will have a ducky/farm animal theme. When we first started ttc I bought a little Carter's ducky outfit that says "I love my mommy" I have that outfit set aside waiting for the day the our little one will come home in it. I just have to believe it will happen.
We have done our share of worrying and what ifs, but we have decided together, that one way or the other we will be parents.
It has been 8 months, but about 6 actual cycles of ttc. So I researched OB/GYNs in the NH area instead of the Boston area and have found a few. I don't think anything will be done without a year of trying and even then I'm not sure about our insurance. So I am giving it a few more months and keep praying.
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