What a difference a day makes...

So I was all cool with my charting and glad to see that both charts I was using said I'd be Oing this Thursday/Friday (depending on which chart I referenced) and that we were on track. However, after inputting three high temps from Saturday, Sunday and today...one of my charts suddenly and completely changed it's tune. It went from saying I would O this coming Thursday, to saying I had O'd this past Friday (the 25th) and I'm now 3 days past ovulation (3dpo for the abbreviation lovers out there!)!! What the heck! So now I'm in the 2ww (or two-week wait) as they say on the TTC boards - ha ha. I am still sticking with the TCOYF chart and assuming I'm going to O this week (Friday) and we'll see what happens with the temps. If they stay up...that's a good sign. The FF chart (that has me at 3dpo) says I should test at 19dpo (8/13) if AF doesn't show again on 8/9. More waiting. Great. I hope AF stays away though!! We shall see...

Hooray for TCOYF & AF!

So, I've been using a website, "Fertility Friend" (FF), to chart my temp and such since going off of BC. I even went back and added a couple of months of info to "help" it provide me with more info as to when I'm O'ing. After one month of using it, it has yet to "determine" when I will "O" or get a visit from AF (though it did list next week as my most fertile days).

Over the weekend, we got the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" (TCOYF) and found out it happened to come with a CD to chart your temps and such for free (for 15 days - but my FF subscription is for 90 days). Last night, Monday night, after filling in one month's worth of info, the TCOYF software tells me that AF should arrive Tuesday, and my most fertile days will, of course, be in two weeks after. HA - I say to the computer last night. We'll just see about that.

LO AND BEHOLD AF arrives today just before 5 pm!! HOORAY! I told Shawn that this will be the one time, in a long time, that I will be happy to see AF. Now we have a jumping off point -- and I can start using my OPKTs after AF leaves! YAY! So I could be KU (knocked up) in the next few weeks! But again...we'll just have to see about that!

Say a prayer and keep everything crossed! :)

Baby Fever!

Okay so no less than half a dozen women in our church are in various stages of pregnancy, with several births in recent months as well. It's like our church has the baby fever too! lol! I hope it's contagious! ha ha!

We bought the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" because it is the "bible" of the TTC websites I'm finding out. I skimmed through the book last night - - it's almost like homework...LOTS of info! Shawn and I looked at the DVD that came with the book, and you can use their online program to chart as well. After filling in everything since going off of BC 6/5, it apparently estimates that AF should arrive today. Which would be great - - a starting off point to figure out when I will O and then we can go from there! :) We shall see though... As of right now, I am not enjoying the cramps I've had over the past day and a half. But if it means AF is coming, then let's just get it over with already. We have the OPKTs and I'm ready to start POAS!

81 days until we leave for Italy! Woo hoo!

Still no word from AF...

Well, since going off BC 6/5, AF has decided not to show as of yet. We did buy an OPTK and I'm sort of waiting to see what happens before I start using it. I'm still charting (though I'm not sure quite yet if I'm understanding it or not. I'm unsure about the CD and DPO dates and which I'm at because of the last AF being 5/10 and not having AF in June, and now being July...oh there is so much to know. (And this is TTC stuff, and not even all the other stuff that comes with being pg!) Okay, as you can tell - once again, I'm spending too much time reading this stuff on the internet - lol. But I'm enjoying it!

I'm also looking forward to going to Italy in October! I can't believe we're less than 90 days away from our trip! Time has flown by, and I'm so unprepared!

Until later...or ciao for now! :)

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Okay, so in a few days it will be the fourth of July, but we are going to be out of town so I'm posting this greeting now! m'kay! We're going to Myrtle Beach for four days and three nights! woo hoo! Should be fun, hopefully not as much rain as Florida, and a relaxing get-away for both of us. I'm hoping we'll get to see fireworks on the beach - they have several events there on the fourth and throughout the weekend - it should be very cool! I'm looking forward to the hotel ;) oh, and golf on Sunday, of course. :)

I think sometime this week we're going to try an OPT (ovulation predictor test) kit to see what they do and if they could be of any benefit. I've been charting online but none of those sites are free if you want to continue to chart beyond 30 days. So at this point, we'll try the OPT kit out and then decide if we should continue charting online. I can always keep my temp records on paper at home or on a spreadsheet on my computer too. It's been almost 28 days off of BC and no AF yet - and she's supposed to visit again on 7/11, so we shall see. It would be nice to have AF visit and then figure out the next O cycle and fertile days from there. Although, I did see on one chart that if I did get AF on 7/11, then I'd be fertile from 7/22 through 7/27, and if we got pregnant during that time, the due date would be 4/17. But that would also mean I'd be almost 3 months pregnant in Italy. OY VEY! (And my dad's b-day is 4/21 so it might be close!) Only God knows (but I'm sure Shawn would like to convince Him to make it happen sooner than later!)! We'll keep ya' posted!

Hope you all have a safe and happy fourth and holiday weekend!