4 weeks 1 day pics

Due date estimation

Per my temping app, my due date is May 20th.

I couldn’t be more excited. We’ve already scheduled the gender ultrasound for November (15 weeks) and am already anxiously awaiting knowing what we are having!!! 

My friend, Jax, is 7 dpo today... would be so cool if she gets a positive this month.  Our babies would be due like 4 days apart!! 

9 dpo... guess I was wrong

Holy shit... I’m pregnant.... I mean... I Hadn't has a cycle in three years... then I had a period in June (thanks to fertility doctors giving me a medication to force a period), skipped a period in July and was about to schedule our next fertility doctor appt when I felt like I was ovulating... got positive ovulating test strips and my temps were right so we did what we needed to do and shockingly got pregnant.

And apparently my test from 8dpo WAS positive but I just didn’t wait long enough for it to finish.

I took 8 tests on Friday and ALLLLL of them came back pregnant!!!!

Per my calculations per my ovulation date, I’m due around May 20th.  Send “boy” thoughts!

8dpo pregnancy test

Negative.... but it’s still early 

8 dpo

8 dpo? Maybe.  I’m still skeptical that I ovulated on my own even though the OPK and temps confirmed it....Only a few more days until we “should” be able to find out if our efforts worked....part of me really doesn’t want to get my hopes up but then part of me is really hoping we were successful and I feel fairly confident in our efforts...

But this wait is horrible!! I am so impatient.  I just want to know if we did this on our own or if we need to go back into the fertility doctor....

Where had my period gone?

My guess is that my amenorrhea came from years of struggling with an eating disorder.  I’m still not sure if eating better has made a huge difference (will find out in two weeks!) but I think that treating myself better makes at least somewhat of a difference.  And in spite of the weight gain, I feel great.  Onward to better!

Fertility struggle

So for the last 3 years, my cycle has been nonexistent.  And we’d like a baby.  See the problem?  So did we.  We decided to see a fertility specialist to see if we could normalize my cycles and conceive with as little outside assistance as possible.

I got a pre-menses ultrasound and blood work/what they call “no menses” studies...they didn’t find anything glaringly wrong.  Weird, though, because supposedly I have endometriosis.... but I guess from what I understand, this dx can only be made from a surgery, which I had a few years ago.

We did the testing (Mitch has super sperm!) and they couldn’t find anything obviously wrong with me!! As a result, I started a round of provera, which was supposed to make me have a period. It did (which was promising considering that the last round of provera, that I did with my regular ob-gym a couple years ago, failed to yield a period....) and I felt hopeful. However, my period never seemed to show 28 days later and I started feeling frustrated yet again....

Buuuuut......last week, I woke up one morning with familiar ovulation pain and fertile cervical fluid.  I couldn’t believe it, so we got some opk strips to check and sure enough, on my second day of testing, my LH began to rise and peak and so we continued BDing each day... but that’s where the easy part ends.  The opk strips said “peak” for several days though the Clearblue fertility monitor said “not fertile” - so now  second guessing my symptoms.  

That being said, I guess we  will know in two weeks......