Ovulation Calendar (7) - try No.3 and BFP

This period was a very exciting one. First the 'busy bee project' (we did our very best!!), then the signs and little symptoms which made today's outcome possible, the BFP!

Probably many of you know the feeling that you want to shout it out to the whole world and to keep it in secret at the same time. I want for the whole world to know and I want to hide and cherish my precious little secret.

The signs were unmistakable. After ovulation on the first Sunday (one week) uncomfortable breasts, which from the second Sunday (two weeks) are constant, plus the occurring 'spotting' 9 days after ovulation. I did not have 'implantation bleeding' in January, so I took it as a very good sign.

I DID NOT expect my period today, and after this morning's arisen temperature I couldn't help and I did a HPT, and it was a BFP straight away!! It was a confirmation what I already knew, I am pregnant again.

There was the question, should I call DH and tell him the long awaited sweet news, or just send him a text message with a + sign, or just wait impatiently until he comes home and let him discover the wonder. Eventually I chose to wait. I left the test in the bathroom so when he comes home and goes in to wash his hands he will find it.

When he arrived his first question was Did you pee on a stick? I did not answer, said something else. He asked me few more times but I couldn't hide the smile on my face. He knew then that the answer is YES and POSITIVE.

My original EDD...

...is today, 11th of October. How do I feel about this? I am still angry. Angry to my GP for that flu jab and angry to myself for letting it happen. With a categoric NO I could have a baby by now. But who is to blame nobody knows.

Ovulation Calendar (6) - try No.2

Measuring and recording the Basal Body Temperature (BBT), plus observing and recording the Cervical Fluid/Mucus (CF or CM) and the position and texture of the cervix are the ways to keep an eye on fertility signs. Watch for the signs and you will get a good chance to get pregnant (read more on FertilityFriend).

To reach my cervix (same position, same time) I never tried. It's too uncomfortable, besides it took 3 or 4 tools to reach for the GP herself when she took the smear test. She said there is a bend, a curve in it. Fertile when it's open, high and soft), non-fertile when it's closed, low and hard.

But observing the cervical mucus is much easier. There is a pattern throughout a cycle: it is dry after the period, then gets sticky, creamy, watery and becoming eggwhite like at ovulation, and dries up again afterwards. When ovulation is approaching it increasing in quantity and becoming more clear and stretchy, and it is a good host for sperms. The eggwhite cervical fluid is the fertile one.

The lifespan of the egg after ovulation is just around 12 hours, not much huh! Fertilization must take place within this timeframe. A very short window! But sperm deposited prior to ovulation can survive for 3 to 5 days, hurrah! So baby making intercourse not to be limited to that 12 hour only but upto 5 days ;-)

On cycle day 10 and 11 my cervical mucus was sticky. I looked on the tissue for consistency, it was thread like. We made some Baby Dance (PM-AM-PM) on day 11 and day 12...

Looking at my temperature curve I thought the day 8 or day 10 is too early but the day 12 is sure. The automatically detected ovulation day is on day 19. Well, with the cervix position and texture and the cervical fluid could be more precise, now just looks for the temperature shift, but day 19 is too far I think. In the past months it was on day 14, day 18, day 11, day 13, and now on day 19. There is a long distance between 11 and 19. My period length varied from 25, 25, 25, 27, and 26 only. There is not much of a difference in the length, so it cannot be much difference in my ovulation days from month to month. The length of the follicular phase may vary but the luteal phase length is generally constant from cycle to cycle for the same woman. But clearly day 12 wasn't my ovulation day either as I am not pregnant.