WOOHOO!!! I Oed!!!
Well guess what! Those were ovulation pains I was feeling yesterday!!! I am so happy!!! So, I either ovulated on CD 16 or 17. Either way, we have a good chance of conceiving because our last insems were done on CD 14. I had really good mucous and sperm can live in fertile mucous some say up to 6 days! I am hoping for our own little miracle!!! In about 10 days we shoould be able to test using a FRED. I will wait and see how I feel that day and decide whether or not I will test. I may wait until 14 days post ovulation because I hate getting a negative. Not too much longer now!!!
Today is CD 16!
Well, I woke up at 5:30 this morning and figured I might as well pee on my monitor stick since I had to go anyway. Well, when I turned on my monitor, I discovered that it was too early to insert the stick as it wasn't calling for it yet. So, I placed my monitor back into the cupboard and decided I would feed my monitor in the morning. Well, guess who forgot all about her monitor in the morning! Yup, me... So I may have peaked today-I'll never know. I kind of felt a twinge today but I am never sure if that is just gas or ovulation. I figure if I peak tomorrow morning then it probably was ovulation pains today. I hope my insems from CD 14 are still alive and well in me! I had really good mucous so there is a good chance they are. I want to be pregnant for my guys!!!
second day of insems-woohoo!!!
Hi! Well today was CD 14 and we did our second set of insems at 4:30 am! My IFs had to be back in TO for an event this morning to take place in their restaurant so we had to get crackin' bright and early! Everything went smoothly! So, now all I need to do is ovulate! I have had excellent CM the last couple of days and so the sperm can hang out until my egg is released. I am betting we will have a girl because of the timing. I can't help but to think it will work for us this time because I have always envisioned having a baby girl for my IFs but a baby boy would be most welcomed too. I am crossing and praying that we will be pregnant this cycle! Please God if it is your will!!! Please! Let it be so!!! I am willing it to be so too just for good measure! Hee hee! So anyway, I am officially in the 2WW now. All I have to do is keep myself busy so that I don't lose my marbles trying to analyze things and predict whether or not I am pregnant. Oooooo, was that a twinge in my left breast? Gee...I am feeling a little bit nauseated this morning. Hmmmm... Uh oh... Is that lower back pain I am having? Oh wait! Maybe it is implantation cramping! Do you know how many times as a surrogate that I have started my period and have had myself convinced for a few hours each time that it was implantation bleeding? It is too embarrassing to admit really... All I can really say is that we will all just have to WAIT AND SEE.
my very first post!
Today is Monday, April 24th, 2006. My IFs were down today for insems!!! Woohoo!!! My monitor has not given me even a high reading yet let alone a peak. However, I do have very nice, fertile mucous as of yesterday and I read recently that it is good to insemminate 4 days before ovulation so that the sperm is in place and will be ready once the egg is released. So, that is what we did today! I am on day 13 today and I am hoping that I will ovulate in the next 4 days!
Both of my IFs are giving me samples so the bio Daddy will be a surprise! Neither of them care who the bio Daddy is as they will both be the baby's parents. I will be known as Mama to the child so that he or she will always know he or she has a mother. That was important both for my IFs and for myself.
I am so very excited for this to happen!!! I so badly want to pregnant for my IFs!!! They are such beautiful men and I know they will make very good fathers. Let this be the cycle i conceive for them!!!
Just an added note... We did conceive prior to this cycle. I made it to about 12 weeks gestation and miscarried. It was such a devastating blow to have gotten so far only to find out it had ended before it really began. I went to my 11 week ultrasound to check the nuchal cord measurement and it was determined that it was a "blighted ovum pregnancy". I had a gestational sac and a placenta but there was no baby. I felt so sad. My IFs felt so sad. I feel so joyful and honoured that my IFs want to try again. I hope I can redeem myself this time around and give them the baby they are dreaming of.
