cd1

blood with a vengeance, yo, just in time for halloween. whee!
so if you’re looking for word substance, you’ll have to wait a day. because right now i’m ridiculously hungry, devoid of whiskey, and did i mention the ghoulish cramps?
but tomorrow? tomorrow is nablopomo (too lazy to link.) and it’s on. i [...]

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15dpo

spotting today. dipping temp. raging pms with requisite anxiety, inflamed body image issues, and whininess. this isn’t the month, y’all. i’m anticipating tomorrow being cd1.
bring on the clomid check, ie getting felt up all up in my ovaries.
bring on the liquor.
but here is some levity. best photo ever of my beloved [...]

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14dpo

all apologies to those of you who were hoping for some sort of news on monday. we were traveling home monday and yesterday, and i was altogether away from teh interwebs. but now i’m back. with no news. as recently as this morning, i am testing negative. my temps are [...]

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7dpo

temps are nice and high in a consistent sort of way now that i’m breathing through my nose again. beginning yesterday, a blanket of nausea has taken me over in the morning. it’s a familiar nausea, one i learned to live with for 17 weeks when i was pregnant with jude. my [...]

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mouthbreather.

charting one’s temp is shite when one has become a congested mouthbreather.
peep this beast:

gah.

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update.

so, i am home sick for a second day, as i try to rid myself of the green goo residing in my head. jude had her mmr shots yesterday, and is seconds away from cutting her bottom molars. this combination has resulted in a cranky, contrary, tantrum-y toddler, who has taken to biting [...]

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hey you, charting master! over here!

[note: for those readers who have no desire to know about charting cycles, you may want to skip this post entirely. it will be very boring for you.]
so.  yesterday.  cd12.  i had a significant temp shift.  i did temp at 5 am, instead of the usual 7:30ish. opk was negative. i [...]

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ohchicken is:

sick. again. she had way less sinus infections when she smoked a pack a day.
cd12.  negative opk. twingy in the right twingy places.  soon.
the proud parent to a child who can sing (only intelligibly to her mothers) “twinkle twinkle little star”, but only the first bar.  and it sounds more like “kle kle [...]

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clomidia.

day 3 of clomid, and my body is angry with me. not only am i experiencing a hefty dose of ppms (that’s pre-pms, for those of you playing at home), today i am as nauseous as the memory of myself 8 weeks pregnant.
someone please pass the saltines.

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of note

today begins clomid challenge 2009! whee!
i have a new ob/gyn who was recommended by my midwife as being “midwife-friendly”. i don’t know that she is especially friendly towards them, as much as less hostile. she reiterated the party line about taking my unborn child’s life into my own hands by [...]

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