Category Archive
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Round Three
Today was my first day back at work after the four week staycation. It was a really rejuvenating time. I wanted to blog more, but the days just merged into each other with plenty of sleeping, reading, viewing (we overdosed on re-watching the L word collection) and exercising.
It was really good to be free from the clinic this month. We did the DIY approach with DDY last week. We did three inseminations timed over a two day period. We felt our timing was spot-on. The spec-o-cam provides such useful and concrete indications and I have been faithfully inputting data into fertility friend. We did the first insemination early on Wednesday evening when my cervix was wide open and there was plenty of fertile cm, by the time we did it my OPK had turned positive also. We did the next one Thursday morning when I had ferning on the fertility lens (I have all the gadgets these days) and my cm was equally abundent and the last one later on Thursday night. The feeling of inseminating at home is so different to the clinic experience. We really created a sacred space. It was pretty magical and it was the first time I felt embodied in the process. In the clinic I always leave my body and focus on lamp above my head rather than what’s happening inside me. Whereas now I am really in my body. My Preparing to Conceive CD has all this stuff about breathing golden light into my ovaries and I have been doing that, not just while listening to the CD but also while at the acupuncturist, in the bath or whenever I have a few moments.
We said to ourselves at the time that even if it hasn’t worked this time, we’ve had a lot of fun doing it, which is more than we can say for the previous attempts. It was really good for our intimacy. But I am hopeful. We both are, of course. But it’s far too early to tell. My nipples felt very slightly sensitive a few days ago and I was incredibly tired on Sunday and needed a long afternoon nap, but at 5DPO I really can’t tell.
I think one of the reasons I have resisted blogging these past few weeks is that I was pretty affected by the BFN that last month offered up, particularly after the few days of hopeful signs. With my parents around it was hard to process my feelings about that. And I felt cautious approaching this attempt, and not quite sure what to say about it. But it’s been a good month for us, whatever the outcome.
