One Line

Only one line this morning. No AF but I guess she is expected soon…

Passed Out

I still haven’t been able to convince R to POAS. She will in the morning though. Tomorrow is R’s birthday and AF was due today. No signs of her yet. We did have a scary thing happen this afternoon though. R started feeling dizzy in the shower and got out. She passed out as she was walking in the bedroom. She was only out a few minutes and luckily she missed the bed and the dresser as she went down. She called me as soon as she came to and I rushed home from work. I got her something to eat and set up a fan to cool her off.

Has anyone else passed out while TTC? Were you pregnant?

Put the Stick Down and Back Away Slowly

I really want R to pee on a stick. She is the patient one this time. So far we have only had one cycle where we both were obsessive and impatient and have found out that it is much better if it is just one of us.

R is feeling OK. She has been tired this week. Her b00bs are sore, especially her nips. We wish we had taken a photo of them earlier in the month because I swear that her b00bs are slightly larger and nips darker. Not that we would have posted the photo, it would have been just for us to make a comparison. She also says that she is very “aware” of her uterus. That is the best way she can describe it. It is not real cramping or pain, just that she knows it’s there. Sounds crazy I know, but I’d never tell her that

The anticipation this time is killing me. R is just sailing through the TWW convinced that it has worked. Her reasons it worked are:

• We didn’t obsess during insem or leading up to it (downside with no temping we can’t stare at her chart looking for an implantation dip and won’t get the temp drop that says AF is just around the corner)
• R lost her health insurance this past week (we’re looking into extending coverage since my new job doesn’t allow me to add her to my insurance)
• We still don’t have a place of our own (there is one place that may work out, we should know in a week or so and then closing would be another few weeks)
• R still hasn’t found a job (She has sent out lots of resumes and has had a few phone calls for interviews. Also, a local PD has agreed to sponser her for the state specific training but that doesn’t start until January)

The Deed is Done

We insemmed last Tuesday. We are 6 days into the TWW. R says she has a good feeling about this one. I am slightly worried that we insemmed a day or two too early. The OPK says we didn’t but we don’t have any other signs to compare it to. We haven’t seen the thermometer since we moved. R has missed almost a week when I noticed that there was no annoying beeping each morning. I am a really heavy sleeper. I asked her what her temps were doing and discovered that the thermometer ended up in storage. All our insem supplies also ended up in storage. Our specimen cup was made by Rμbbermaid. Our sterile syringe was a medicine dropper. We didn’t have any Prε-Sεεd so hopefully we didn’t need it.

We went to our donor’s house and did the deed. Then we waited and went out for Mexican food. It is funny to think back to our first insem. We approached it with such reverence.  Now it’s just blasé . We sat there watching W0rld Trαde Center waiting until it we could go get a burrito. 

We want to think we can actually wait until R’s birthday (the 28th) to test.  R will officially be 1 day late if AF hasn’t shown up by then. We will be going out to dinner that night and a test will let R know if she gets to have wine with her birthday dinner. A BFP would be a great birthday present. It is also the same day that I will get my first real paycheck since February.

Back in the Game

It is day 3 of Cl0mid. We have tentative plans with our donor for next Wednesday. He is free from Monday through Thursday if Wednesday isn’t good. It feels so good to be back in the game.

Things are really up in the air on the house front. We didn’t get the rent/purchase option house. Apparently over 50 people applied and they were able to narrow it down to 4. Then they chose the first person that saw the house. We were number 2. I am upset, but maybe something better will come along. One of my dad’s friends is a house fl!pper. He has a few houses now. He is willing to do a rent/purchase option with us. He is going house hunting in the area this weekend for us. He knows we want at least 3 bedrooms, a big kitchen, and a good sized yard, preferably fenced in, but we could do that ourselves if we needed to.

I am still loving my job. I did more work today than I did all last week. They are trusting me to work on my own now. R was supposed to transfer down here with her company. She went through all the proper channels and the manager for this area was supposed to call her last week to let her know when and where she was starting. She never called though. R has left messages for her daily and nothing. R did find 5 jobs this week that she has applied for, but we’re really worried since both of us are relying on her job for our health insurance.

R is finally down here with me. Our furry kids are here too. It is really cramped at my mom’s house and we hope to find somewhere else to live VERY soon.

Hopefully something goes right for us soon…