I just added a few more things to the site! Firstly, you'll notice that I changed the design a bit. Post a comment to let me know if you have problems with it. And, you'll see my BabyMood indicator to the right. It is just a cute little thing that will let you know how I'm feeling! (As if the several paragraphs of text that I type aren't enough!)

Next, I've added a new thing that will allow users to comment on my posts! You see the little "comment" link at the bottom of each entry? Click on that and you can post a comment! Everyone should post something! =) I will test it now myself...

And lastly, I've also added a page view tracker to see how many people view the site. (It's at the very bottom of the page.)

By the way, I just added a link to my fertility chart in the left navigation menu, so you can access it easily!

The Fertility Friend software that I use to chart my cycles gave me a coverline today (meaning, it automatically put a red X on the day that it thinks I ovulated, based on certain signals, like temperature). I asked around, and some women said that they never get positive LHs also, or they'll get positives on some months but not on others. So, the theory now is that I ovulated on CD12 (Cycle Day 12) and I just didn't get a positive LH for whatever reason.

Given that I ovulated on CD12, our BD timing is really great. (In fact, a few women on my fertility web site even commented that it was great timing!) There's always a chance that you don't get pregnant in a given cycle, but we did everything we could to increase our chances! If we don't get pregnant this cycle, I'm going to try a few tricks to increase my cervical fluids. I never really did get the good fertile kind like a lot of women get.

Now we go into what's called the "Two Week Wait." Meaning, you have to wait about two weeks before you really know if you're pregnant! I will probably start testing in a week or so, since I have like 15 pregnancy tests and I might as well use them. ;) However, given my record with the ovulation predictor (LH) tests, they might not work on me either!

In other news, yesterday I had a headache so bad that I pretty much slept all day. I'm sure it was like a sinus headache, probably caused by the fact that I haven't been taking my allergy medication (I stopped taking it because it dries up cervical fluid). So, I started taking it again yesterday, though I'm trying Singulair instead of Zyrtec. I feel a LOT better today already. I did wake up long enough to watch the Oklahoma football game with Kevin. OU beat North Texas 37-3 (I think). It was a fun game!

Temperature stayed high, but still no positive LH test!

Either I've got a strange chart where I'll test LH positive after a temperature spike, or I missed the LH surge somehow. Or maybe there's a medical problem? From what I understand, you can have an LH surge with no egg, but you don't have a pogesterone surge (indicated by the temperature spike)with no egg, though I could be wrong.

Well, we've been BDing every night since the middle of my cycle. So if a egg snuck by, it should have some little guys waiting for it! LOL.

So, I got a temperature spike today, but no positive LH test yet. So, I'm hoping to get one today! Usually the positive LH test happens before the progesterone-related temperature spike, but it's also very common that it happens on the same day. If I don't get a positive LH test today, I'm not sure what that means! Either my test strips don't work, or I missed it somehow, or... I'm not sure. I also haven't really gotten any fertile cervical mucous yet. Though, the truth is I'm not exactly sure what amount or kind I'm capable of making. Many women don't make the really obvious fertile kind. I haven't been paying attention to myself long enough to know!

It looks like today will be an important day though. Stay tuned! =P

Hmm... no temperature spike this morning. Hopefully tomorrow? We're going to keep BDing until the day after that temperature spike. =)

I have a meeting at 8:30 am this morning (yuk!) so I gotta go!

So, if you look at my chart, you'll see that my temperature dropped this morning. That usually means a surge of LH is coming into my system, and ovulation is soon. When you see a temperature spike (I anticipate one tomorrow), that means that a bunch of progesterone came into my system. The progesterone tells the uterus to prepare for pregnancy by building up the lining of the endometrium (the inside of the uterus). The progesterone stays high until either a fertilized egg is implanted, or it isn't. If an egg does implant, the progesterone stays in the system and thus your temperature remains high (so, if my temperature never drops, that's a good sign of pregnancy). If no egg is implanted, the progesterone levels plummit, as does my temperature. With no progesterone to keep it up, the uterus sheds the inner lining, which means I get my period. =( On my fertility tests yesterday (one in the afternoon and one at night), both showed small levels of LH in my system, but no official "surge." But, it looks like today will be the day before ovulation, and tomorrow should be ovulation. We went ahead and BDed last night even though it was a low % chance of pregnancy night, but you can never be too sure! We will BD every night until the day after my temperature spike.

After we BDed last night, I put my hips up on a pillow to ... uhh, how do I say this politely?... make sure nothing was lost. I stayed like that for two hours, and then went to sleep. There's no real scientific evidence that this helps, but it just makes sense that you'd want to keep as much in there as you can. =P

It looks so far like my cycle is going to be extremely regular, which is really good. This is only my first month after stopping birth control pills, and usually doctors recommend waiting 3 months after you stop the pills, in order to regulate your cycle. But like I said, so far it looks like I'm really regular. I only took BC pills like a month though, so they must not have screwed up my system like they do to women who take them for years.

Oh, and also, Kevin and I saw our house last weekend! It was just the foundation (with dirt floor), but that's a good start! There was an empty mountain dew bottle in our house! We haven't even moved in yet and it's already a mess. =)

It was funny because it looked so small. I guess because of perspective. There's also some power generator or something (I forget what Kevin said it was... it was a big green box) right on the border of our backyard. Kinda sucks. What if it is dangerous for kids?

Good morning! Well, ovulation is coming soon! I got my test kits yesterday, and I actually used on just for the fun of it. No LH surge.

The Lutenzing Hormorne (LH) is the hormone that tells your body to release an egg. So, these kits test for it. When I see an LH surge in my urine, that means that the egg will be released soon! That, in comination with my charting, will really give me a good idea of ovulation - practically to the hour! As you may know, the egg may live only a few hours, so sometimes BDing every day is not enough. You may have to BD at a certain TIME of day! So, from now on, I am going to test LH twice a day until I see ovulation.

So I was in the library the other day, and this lady was there with her 10-week-old little girl. I felt so uncomfortable because I kept staring at the baby, and I couldn't help but smile! I know mothers are used to having people going ga-ga over their babies, but I didn't want to look like a stalker or something. It's OK to look and smile nicely, but don't stare and grin and drool! When I was leaving the library, the mother whispered to me "fertility monitor!" I realized she saw that I had checked out some books about how to get pregnant and that was her advice. I told her that's exactly what I was doing! ("Fertility monitors" are basically $200 ways to do what I'm doing for $13).

Well as you can see from my charts, I ovulated on day 12 last month, and I'm on day 8 this already this month. I still haven't gotten my ovulation test kit yet, so I'd better get it soon! If I don't get it, we'll just have to start TTC the old-fashioned way. =P

Kevin and I bought this new game called Shadowbane but it kind of sucks. Supposedly the part of the game where you fight other players is fun, but it is so boring building your character up to get to the point where you can fight other players that I'm not sure that we'll make it that far. We'll see. =)

Hey it just sunk in that it's Friday today! That's always great news! =)

Sorry for no update yesterday, I got thousands of angry e-mails from my hordes of fans, and I apologize to each and every one of you.

No baby news - except my period is over now. Just waiting to ovulate, then we can start TTC again. =)

Dentist went ok... he did both cavities at once, so I ended up with THREE shots to numb me. (Usually they just do one.) The whole side of my face was dead! It sucked trying to eat lunch with no feeling in my mouth, hehe.

Diet was ok yesterday, I ate a little more that I should have last night. But, we got a few items from the store, so I should do better today. I still feel more tired than usual... like last month I had the energy to come home and exercise almost every day. But, perhaps it was BECAUSE I was exercising every day that I had that energy. That's something to think about!

I'm almost done with a big project at work. I've been working on it for like 2 weeks because I'm basically creating and compiling all the content myself. I will link to it when I'm done. =) (Hopefully today!!!)

Talk to you later...

Today I talked to our realtor, and she says our house will be done in about 90 days. That seems like a long time away. But, from now on, we should start seeing a lot of pregression. We'll have a lot of things to choose and buy and lots of decisions to make. Hopefully time will fly until we move in. =)

I did good on my diet today, except I'm really hungry! But I stayed on my points, maybe a little lower even. I need to do some grocery shopping to get some more filling foods. Today I had a sandwich for lunch and it just didn't cut it. I also did an hour of yoga tonight. It was actually a prenatal yoga video that I borrowed from the library, it was really fun! I would love to be able to wake up and do it each morning when I'm pregnant. I'll see if I can buy the tape later on (I just checked on Half.com and it is only $6. So I should be able to afford it after a bit.).

I'm going to go clean out the litter box (while I still can, since it is off limits when pregnant) so Kevin doesn't have to do it and then take a long bath as a reward. =)

Tomorrow I get my cavities filled. Hooray....

No baby news, of course. =P

Went to the dentist today and I have two tiny cavities. I told them I was trying to get pregnant, so they want to fill the cavities now (or, "weak spots" as they called them, not quite yet cavities), since I shouldn't get cavities filled while pregnant. So I have an appointment for this Thursday to get them filled, which will be before we TTC again.

Also, they started digging our house today! Supposedly they're going to try to actually finish the house by the end of September, which is just a few weeks away! It is so fun to get married, get pregnant and move into a brand new home! I'm soooo excited! I really, really hope I'm pregnant as we're moving into our house! How neat will that be? Then I don't have to lift anything as we move. =D

As for my diet, I didn't do well again today! I've been trying to follow Weight Watchers again, but today I ate too many points. I end up so hungry by the end of the day that I have to eat something so my stomach stops growling. So, I need to save up more points earlier in the day. I'm still too sick (coughing a little bit still) to exercise, or else I'd be able to burn off the extra points I ate. Oh well, there is always tomorrow! I just need to get my eating back on track before getting pregnant - the doctor doesn't want me to gain any weight at all during the pregancy, and I'll have to be really careful to make sure it happens that way.

Kevin and I did go for a 3.5-mile walk last night, which was really fun. I was actually able to walk quickly the whole way - I felt really good. Kevin said it was because I was pumped up on steroids (the medicide for my cough!). =P I would like to get my treadmill fixed though, so I can walk like that every day (it is broken right now).

Also, did I mention that I bought some fertility tests and home pregnancy tests from a web site (this one here)? They were like $15 for a package of 15 ovulation and 10 hpt tests or something (honestly I forgot which package I bought). In the store it costs like $15 for ONE pregnancy test! Of course, these are just strips of chemical paper, no fancy plastic coverings or anything. But hey, if they work, they work. Right? With the ovulation tests, I will be able to test twice a day and make SURE of when I ovulate, so we can BD right then. (BD means "baby dance" which is another term used in the internet "fertility circles" to describe the act of making babies =). That will give us good chances for a boy, which Kevin will be happy about. Then, if we have a boy, I will try hard next time for a girl! Then the third baby can be whatever it wants to be. =)

Hmm... I wonder if anyone reads this blog anymore. =P

Still coughing a lot today, so I actually stayed home from work. I don't feel bad other than the asthma/coughing, so I hope I will be able to do a lot of work from home.

If you're interested in seeing my temperature tracking chart, it's here: http://circles2.fertilityfriend.com/home/291e9

I'm starting my second cycle now, but in truth, it appears that we got the "greenlight" to TTC a day too late. We probably missed my ovulation by HOURS. When you look at the chart, the big red X is when ovulation occurs.

Well, I started my period today, so all hope is lost. =P I already went ahead and took my predisone (by the way, predisone is the WORST tasting pill I've ever had the misfortune to take!!) and Flonaise, which I'm happy about. So hopefully I'll start feeling better. I think this whole time I really just had a cold, which made me feel kind of crappy. That's another reason why I knew I wasn't pregnant, because I've been feeling BETTER these past few days than I did last week, as opposed to having worsening pregnancy symptoms.

Knowing that my period was imminent yesterday, I went to the library and borrowed some fertility books. I'm also going to buy some ovulation predictor strips, to make sure we time everything right.

Wish us luck! =)

Still no period, but my temperature dropped to below the red line on my cycle chart, which just about assures that my period is imminent. I am really suprised it hasn't started already, in fact, even though it is only the 25th day of my cycle. I need a really irregular temperature spike at this point (and no period!) in order to be pregnant and I doubt doubt doubt I'll get it.

I guess it is good in one way. I have been having asthma problems, and actually had to go to urgent care for breathing treatments yesterday. The Emergency room doctor prescribed predisone and Flonaise, which are both steriods. They are Class C drugs, which means they are not well-tested in pregnancy, but the FDA has still approved them. Basically it says they're not TOO bad, but they're not sure of the long-term impact on the baby.

The ER doctor was really pressuring me to take them, because he said that lack of oxygen is much worse that one dose of predisone, which is surely true. Also, they prescribe these drugs to pregnancy women all the time, with no problems.

However, I asked my OB doctor what she thought, and she said no, don't take them! Get another treatment! Honestly, I'm not even sure there is another treatment that actually works. Predisone will just whip me into shape in a few days, and I'll stay good for several months. It's that powerful.

Anyway, so I've been putting off taking the medication. If I start my period, I can take the treatment and be feeling better before we even start TTCing again ("Trying To Concieve" for all you non-TTCers out there). If I don't start my period and end up being pregnant, I may have to suffer with bad sniffles, coughing and frequent minor asthma attacks for quite some time! Actually, if I am pregnant, I may actually take the predisone in the second or third trimester, when there is less development of the fetus. That should be a little safer. I'll have to talk to my OB about it in a little more depth though.

The other good thing about starting my period TODAY would be that it means I have 25-day cycles, which is really short. That's great for TTC.

Here's hoping for a miracle, temperature-dropping baby! =)

Well, my temperature is slowly dropping, and I am starting to feel cramps, which means I will probably start my period today. =(

Next month I will continue charting my temperature, as well as using an ovulation test kit to determine when I ovulated.

I guess I will go through these 2 weeks of hope each month. =P

Had a temperature drop last night. That could be a good sign of implantation of the egg in the uterus. I took my temperature again today and it went way up, which would be a really good sign for pregnancy if it stays up.

No real pregnancy symptoms except I'm still really tired.

I wouldn't be so lucky to get pregnant on the first try, would I? =)

(Don't worry, this optimism will fade as the months go by with no pregnancy. A bit of failure may make me more realistic.)

I was reading this book last night called "From Conception to Birth" and it takes a scientific approach to pregnancy.

One thing that it said was that immediately after fertilization, the body recognizes the chemical change in the egg, and begins gently contracting muscles in the fallopian tubes and moving tiny hairs called cilia which push the egg down towards the uterus.

It also chronicles the sperms' journey up through the uterus to find the egg. There are an incredible number of hazards along the way, including white blood cells, which see the sperm as outside invaders and hunt them down and kill them. Out of hundreds of thousands of sperm, only a few dozen make it to the fallopian tubes. And then they must choose the left or right tube. Half of them will make the wrong decision. The neat thing about this process is that it ensures that only the strongest - and luckiest! - sperm survive.

Monday blahs. No real news to report. Eight more days until I can find out if I'm pregnant. I will begin a countdown. =)

Went to the fair. Ate corn. Bought many pies. =D

When asked if I "looked" pregnant, my mom said, "Yeah! Maybe. Well, I don't know." So, with that vote of confidence, I am logging off for tonight. =)

I felt really lazy today so I took a long nap. I think it was more of weekend relaxation rather than pregnancy tiredness.

I also read today that it takes 7 - 12 days for the actual implantation to occur (before that your body doesn't even know you're pregnant) - it hasn't even been 7 days yet! Hrmph. So I guess whether or not I'm pregnant, all my so-called symptoms have been in my head anyway. =)

I've decided that I'm going to try to do better in terms of eating healthy food. I've been off-plan almost every day this week, except maybe two. Haven't gained weight, but haven't lost any either. If I'm pregnant, I'm worried that I'll use it as an excuse to eat poorly. I find myself doing it already. So I just need to psych myself up more to be healthy whether I'm pregnant or not.

I grabbed a cat and swaddled him in a blanket tonight, and the paraded him around like he was a newborn. Kevin even held the "baby" for a while. I also went on babiesrus.com and looked through baby items. I actually started a baby registry there. In order to start a registry, I had to lie and say the baby was due on July 8, 2003. That would actually be close to my due date if we get pregnant this month. =P The online registry thing is cool though, that way you don't end up with 52 blankets or 5 of the same toy. I just wish I had more friends to buy me stuff. ;)

Tomorrow I'm meeting my mom to go to the Indiana State Fair. I'm not a fair person really, but we're going to get some of my aunt's delicious pie, which is being sold there. Kevin is addicted to it. I asked my mom to look at me and see if she can tell if I'm pregnant or not. Sometimes moms can tell supposedly. =P It's bullshit, I know. But it's still fun. =)

I've got about 2 more weeks to wait and see...

So, this morning I woke up with my back just killing me. It was so stiff I could hardly bend over. I also felt a little sick to my stomach while eating breakfast. Hmmm... neither of which are outside the realm of normalcy however. Sometimes I just have a sore back for no reason. =P

I should change the name of this blog to be "Complaint Blog," don't you think?

Well, this is my first experiement with a blog. If you're reading this, you're probably part of the family and you'll forgive me if I spell something wrong or do something against blogg etiquette.

So, I little bit of history first. First, I've been married to a wonderful guy, Kevin, for hrmmm... well, since May. I was going to say 3 years, because we've been living together that long, but we weren't married the whole time, though it seems like it. =)

Now that we're married and moving into a great big new 5-bedroom house, we've decided to fill up those five bedrooms with babies! And, as you probably know, the cheapest way to acquire a baby is to make one yourself.

For the past year or so, I've been getting ready for momhood. I've been trying to lose weight, going to the dentist, blah blah blah. Around the same time, I went to the OBGYN to get on birth control pills for the next year or so (since I have more weight to lose, I thought it would be a good idea). I ended up going to Planned Parenthood to get the pills because no one could get me an appointment fast enough, and I wanted to have the pills by the time we went on our honeymoon. =P

During the appointment, the doctor was digging around, and she says to me, "Hmmm... your cervix is very firm. I can feel lots of pressure. I think maybe you have a fibroid." I was horrified. What is that? I remember my mom had a fibroid, and she had to have a hysterectomy. So then she finished things up, and said, "Okay let me think about this fibroid thing a minute" and left me to get dressed.

While getting dressed, my heart was beating like it was going to explode out of my chest. I wished Kevin was with me. Yet, I was remarkably optimistic. It's kind of like when you get run over by a car, and you have the adrelaline rush enough to lift the car off yourself. She didn't seem that concerned. If it was sooo serious, she would have blurted it out so casually. Err, wouldn't she?

After 456 days waiting in the office and biting off almost all of my nails, the doctor comes back. "Well," she says, "I think you just have a retrograde uterus. If you had a fibroid, you'd have more painful periods, and extra bleeding. As it is, you say your periods are fine. So, I think the firmness I'm feeling is just because your uterus is tilted."

Well there you have it. A tilted uterus. When asked about the affect on fertility, my doctor said, "If the sperm get in there, they will find their way to the tubes regardless of the angle!" When I got home that night, I did lots of research on the internet. Some Web sites say that a titled uterus can affect fertility. Other Web sites say the first set of Web sites are liars. Whatever, I just know that if I'm different, that's not ideal.

Anyway, I decided to have a second opinion. Mostly because the Planned Parenthood doctor was so wishy-washy about the whole thing. It was like she pratically tossed a coin to decide what was up with my uterus.

So after our honeymoon, I found an OBGYN at the nicest hospital in the area. During her appointment, she immediately said I had a fibroid as soon as she started feeling around. "Yep," she said. "I can feel it right there." This time I wasn't so sad. I guess because I'd done some research on fibroids by this point. Most women have them, and most time they're not dangerous. But still, an abnormality. =(

But when I went home and told Kevin, I was sad all over again. The problem is that if I had a fibroid so large it caused doctors to think I had a retrograde uterus simply because this giant watermelon was pushing my uterus forward, that's not a good thing. If the fibroid is too big, it can interfere with fertility. And the fibroids actually grow during pregnancy (they thrive on estrogen) so they can become problematic. Also, if the fibroid is big enough AND inside the uterus (most fibroids grow on the muscle layers on the outside of the uterus), it can actually block the birth canal. I'm sure you can imagine the trouble with that.

If the fibroid is large, they will need to operate before I can get pregnant. The problem is, sometimes during this operation, there is scar tissue that damages the uterus so much that you can't have children. So in order to have children, I have to have an operation that could leave me barren.

Next step, an ultrasound to find out how big these suckers are. How sad that my first ultrasound is not during my 15th week of pregnancy. =( The nurse who does the ultrasound won't tell me any results, either good or bad, so I was rather miffed. Since I wanted to get the results right away, I immediately requested personal copies of the ultrasound photos for myself. They have to give them to you, ya know. So a few hours after my ultrasound, I get my copies. Kevin and I tear them open in the parking lot outside the hospital. Even without the years of medical training that is normally required to make any sense of ultrasound photos, Kevin and I can immediately discern... pretty much nothing. We can tell there are some globs inside of me, but who knows what they are. They could be pelvic bones, for all we know. I already knew that I had pelvic bones.

So again, I get on the internet to do some research. Amazingly, I was able to find a site which had an ultrasound of a fibroid displayed on it. That was helpful, so I could compare my ultrasound to that one. What helped most of all, however, was that I figured that in the ultrasound itself, the nurse had made little tickmarks to measure items in the view. One item measured 15cm. That's like the size of a grapefruit. That's bad. =( But, I notice another item that's also measured and it appears to be a long tube. Hmm! So, maybe my internal organs, like tubes and uterus, are some of the items being measured! Ah! That made me feel better.

Alas, I was right. My uterus was 15cm, which is actually enlarged (the size of a 12-week pregancy). My largest fibroid (I have several) is 2.7 cm. Like the size of a marble. Not big enough to operate on. Hooray!

Now, the interesting part of this whole thing is that our whole attitude toward pregnacy changed when faced with the possibility that I might not be able to have children. The fact is that having children is one of the most important things you can do in your life, and Kevin and I both felt that we wanted to make sure this happened - and happened SOONER rather than LATER. You see, I've been waiting many years for the perfect situation to arise in which to have a baby. I wanted the perfect man (I admit that's an important factor =P), the perfect house, the perfect income, the perfect body. But the fact is, my life is NEVER going to be perfect. While waiting for all of those things, I developed fibroids. If I wait another year, who knows what could happen during that time? Both Kevin and I came to the same decision independantly - we no longer wanted to wait.

So, when my doctor was telling me that my fibroids were not big enough to operate on, I immediately told her that we wanted to go ahead and have a baby as soon as possible. We set a time for a pre-conception appointment.

During the visit I got a diet plan, a perscription for prenatal vitamins, and some bad news - she wanted another test before we actually tried to concieve. I had to have a HSG - I won't try to spell it. =P Basically, they stick a tiny tube in your who-who which goes deep into your uterus. Then they inject some liquid through it and watch the liquid on an xray. The liquid flows through your uterus and fallopian tubes. It really hurt. =( It felt like the worst period cramps I'd ever had. Like someone was standing on my uterus. One of the assistants noticed I was wincing, and she asked me if I was OK. I said I was very uncomfortable, but I wasn't about to scream and cry or anything. Then I asked, "So, how long does this pain last?" "Hmm, just 48 hours or so," she said. Wow, THAT sucks. I certainly wasn't going back to work! Luckily, after I went to the bathroom and walked around a little, things felt much better.

The radiologist at this procedure was very nice, and she actually told me that my xrays so far looked pretty good, she didn't see any blockages or abnormalities. I asked her if she saw any submucosal fibroids (the kind that are inside the uterus and interfere with pregancies) and she said no, but she would have to look more closely during her official study of the xrays. She did add though, that if they were a big problem, she probably would have seen them by now. So I left the hospital pretty upbeat about the whole thing.

Even though I had gotten good news, I broke down outside of the hospital while waiting for Kevin and started to cry. I'm not sure why. It wasn't like a happy crying either. I just felt uncomfortable, irritated and dirty (it wasn't a clean procedure, let's just leave it at that). I wanted to go home BADLY, and Kevin was taking his own sweet time to come pick me up (OK, it took like 6 minutes, but it was 6 minutes too long!). Kevin was, of course, happy to hear my uterus got good reviews from the radiologist.

The HSG was done on Wednesday, and by that weekend I felt like I was about to ovulate (based on temperature and other signs). So, if we didn't want to miss this cycle, we would have to get busy pretty soon. My doctor was out sick, so again I requested copies of my xrays. This time I lucked out and got my radiologist report too! Here is what it said:

"The uterus is normal in morphology and is anteverted in positioning. No abnormal filling defects or adhesions are seen. There is filling of both fallopian tubes which are normal in caliber. There is free spillage of contract material from both fallopian tubes into peritoneal cavity."

And also:

"IMPRESSIONS: Normal hysterosalpingogram with free spillage of contrast into peritoneal cavity. The fallopian tubes are uterus are normal in morphology."

Before you get a dictionary, "morophology" is basically the shape of things. "Anteverted in positioning" means NOT retrograde (so, my uterus is tilted normally). "No abnormal filling defects or adhesions are seen" is probably the best part - no fibroids inside the uterus! "Filling of both fallopian tubes" means that I don't have a defect or problem that fuses the tubes together, making it impossible for an egg to travel into that side, or for a fertilized egg to travel to the uterus. "Free spillage of contract material from both fallopian tubes into peritoneal cavity" - honestly, I'm not sure about this one. The Peritoneal cavity is basically your body cavity... it seems I wouldn't want anything spilling from my fallopian tubes into my body cavity! But, I gather that this is a normal thing.

So, after reading the report, Kevin and I are so happy that we go ahead and do the deed. Note that this is the 13th day of my cycle. Right on time!

The doctor called me the next morning and said that everything was great and we had the green light to go ahead and try to get pregnant. Little did she know that I had stolen the test results and we had already ummm... gone through the intersection, so to speak. =)

Now the waiting begins...

So, the day after our first attempt at getting pregnant, I was tired! That's a good sign, right? I also felt a pang of sensation in the spot where my right ovary would be. Most women that say they can feel their ovulation say it feels like a quick stab of light pain. I've never thought I could feel myself ovulating before, but now I was paying REAL close attention. Or, perhaps it was just a normal feeling that just happens for no reason now and then, and I was assigning it extra value because I WANTED it to be ovulation.

The whole day, I felt like a sensation in my reproductive organs area. It reminded me of the feeling I have when I'm about to start my period. Like very, very slight cramping. That day I came home from work and went to sleep right away because I was so tired.

So far, all good signs I think!

But the last two days, I've really felt nothing. No twings or pangs or sensations, and honestly I'm not that tired. I HAVE been going to the bathroom a lot... but I've been drinking a lot too! Is thirst a symptom of pregnancy?

Oh, well, I will keep you updated on all my little theories for the next week or so until my period is due, and we get the REAL story. Am I pregnant or not? =)