I Haz a Plan

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It's not an evil plan, but look at that kitteh! I wuv it.

Anyways

My temp spiked, which I'm ignoring, because that's what you do to things who only want attention. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt only because my cheap-o HPT's haven't arrived from Amazon yet. When they do, if my temp hasn't indicated O, I'll test, get a little weapy over the BFN, and fill my prescription for Provera.


That should start Cycle 4, and with it, implementation of The Plan. The Super Awesome Cherry Bud Pregnancy Attainment Plan.

The Plan

1. Ordered 40 OPK's from Amazon this morning. I figure I'll start using them around CD 14 and go from there. I'm still a little confused about these. Do you use them as soon as you see fertile CM? Or do you just pick a day and start POAS-ing? It's a confusing world.

2. Green Tea. Drink it. I have a bunch at home, I just forget to drink it. Always.

3. Vitex. I'm buying the smallest possible bottle tonight and crossing my fingers that it doesn't turn me into a crazy person. I mentioned awhile back that Provera turns me into Ted Bundy. What I didn't mention is that I wasn't surprised. My emotions are apparently in a very rickety balance, and a hormonal difference one way or the other turns me into a kaleidoscope of nuts. The point of this is that I'm giving the Vitex a chance, as it is (apparently) a fertility wonderment. We'll see how it goes. If my posts become mentally unbalanced in the next few weeks, you'll know why.

4. BD-ing. We're ok at this, actually. So I guess we'll just keep up the good work and stuff.

Sweet Thing Mr. Cherry Bud said this week: "So....you said your temp went up...or down...something good...how did....how did that work out for you?" He's trying so hard, and I love him for it.

Green Tea and Waiting to O

This entry is going to have something startlingly like ADHD. I apologize in advance.

Still waiting on O. Le sigh.

On the bright side, watery CM yesterday, which I gave the total side-eye to. What is it doing here so early in the cycle? Not that I'm complaining, I just have the relationship with my reproductive organs that other people might have with a younger brother that is prone to pranks. He may seem genuinely and innocently trying to offer you a cookie, but if said cookie turns out to have crushed cockroaches in it, you can't say you shouldn't have known better.

I'm not sure that analogy made any sense. The connection seems shaky, even to me.

In GP (kind of) news, I've found the solution to green tea. For those of you who didn't know there was a problem with green tea, there is. It tastes like something is missing. FYI, it's mint. Green tea tastes like the absence of mint. But, one stop at the grocery store and I am swimming in green-tea-minty-yumminess. Delish. And good for baby making. Allegedly.

I'm very sorry for the incoherent-ness of this entry. I'm a bit frazzled at the moment and my brain is going in ten different directions. But I still love you all.

Mad as a Loon,
Cherry Bud

You know you are TTC when

you have all these goodies...

Opks, Pregnancy Test, BBT (walgreens & my new BBT from Target), Green Tea, Crinone Progesterone, Prenexa Prenatals, and Amazon Opk's.

When I arrived home after this post I wanted to put everything together and see what I was missing. Good thing I did this, because I still had some of the cheap OPK's that I completely forgot about! These will come in handy today and tomorrow before using the Clearblue Opk's.

Just hanging out & hanging in there...

Today I'm on CD 9....still taking the B6, drinking green tea & just hanging out...waiting to O. I would really love it if my LP would correct itself, but I'm so impatient that I do NOT wanna wait for that. If you remember in my last post I was trying to figure out whether I should try to go to another GYN & get a 2nd opinion on waiting it out 3 more months before going in about my short LP, or if I should just wait it out & hope hope hope my GYN was right. Well the day after I posted that & after much thought, I decided to go ahead and call my PCP to go in for my annual physical & try to see if they would give me a few blood tests I wanted. Well when I called to make the appt. the receptionist asked if I needed a pap smear & I said no, but I was surprised b/c I either: a) never knew my PCP also provided GYN services, or b) I forgot. So I told the receptionist that I'd like to speak with the Dr. about reproductive concerns though & she said that I could absolutely talk to my Dr. about that at the appt. My appt. is October 9th & I can't wait! When I go in I am going to ask that my progesterone, iron & thyroid levels be checked. I am hoping that whatever the problem is, it is something that can easily be fixed & that I get a BFP soon. Please pray for me that my Dr. is proactive & doesn't want to make me wait the next 3 months out like my GYN does...I would love to get a BFP before the end of this year, perhaps around the holidays - what a Christmas gift that would be!

In other news, my fellow 1WW (1 week wait) sistah on the internet message board I frequent - we joke about our 1WW b/c we have both had short LP issues since being off BCPs... hers have not been quite as bad as mine, but short nonetheless - just got a very faint line this morning, but I saw it in the pic she posted...it was faint, but there & you know what they say: "A line is a line"! We are all 99.99% sure (waiting on a blood test to confirm) she got her BFP this morning after several months of short LPs & recently being put on Prometrium to supplement her progesterone levels. I was SOOOO 'effing happy to see that from her b/c it seriously gives me hope! Congrats woman, you know who you are! OH how I hope it's that simple a fix for me too & I get whatever drug I need to fix my LP & we get KU soon!

Also, I went to watch the season premiere of Desperate Housewives last night with my 19 weeks pg BFF (they all seem to be new mommies or KU except me of course....or maybe it's just how I feel right now)...she finds out what the sex is this Friday! I am so happy for her & she has had such a rough time with being sick thru out the pregnancy that this is actually the first time I have seen her since early June (before she even knew she was pg). And of course, she is starting to get a little bump, which is so freakin' adorable! This is not her, but a good example of about how big her bump is:

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I am so happy for her, especially since she had some early spotting & was worried about m/c, but I am a little sad for myself since she & I had always said that we wanted to get pregnant together. It's not completely out of the question, but we would be pretty far apart even if I got KU in the next few months...and I guess God had other plans in mind for me, so I am just praying that he blesses Mr. Worry Bud & I with a baby soon. In the mean time, I will keeping hoping & praying with everything I have in me that God sees fit to bless us with a little one soon! Stay tuned...hopefully the next few weeks will bring good news!

This cycle can bite the dust....

Mr. Bud came home from a business trip feeling under the weather and ended up with having a fever all Sunday and Monday. He was so sick, boogers were flying everywhere the poor thing. All I could do is spray Lysol on everything!

This cycle my chart was following the exact pattern from my last BFP cycle so I knew I was going to O either on Sunday night or Monday. Plus I have been drinking Green Tea which I noticed an increase of cm around my O date.

Here is my chart overlay, The green line represents the BFP month and the Purple line represents this month. Its following the exact same pattern...

We BD On Friday, but I do not think his little guys survived all the way until Sunday/Monday.

I have been waiting for this day for a while and planning it out and already hoping that the 2ww would hurry up and pass so that I can poas and hope to see 'Pregnant', but since Mr. Bud was out sick we would have to wait for the next cycle.

Truthfully I was really sad and down all Monday that we were not going to try but I had snap out of it really quick and realize that Mr. Bud is not my Sperm bank/Sex Machine/Baby making tool. Right now I had to put this on hold and take care of him, don't get me wrong the thought of tying him down and jumping on him did cross my head but this is a special moment for both of us.

Sometimes we get baby making in our heads and do nothing but think of this and want this and if something gets in the way destroy it and I was doing this all Sunday night and Monday. I even realized that I was giving him an attitude on Monday, which was so wrong of me... Its not his fault that he got sick.

Now when I think of Mr. Bud all I can think about is him being my...

Off to the next month!

I think I'm "there" again...

...in the 2WW that is. I got a + OPK last night & I'm happy to report lots of EWCM - I think that the green tea I have been drinking daily helped with that! This morning when I woke up my temp jumped up above where I believe my cover line will eventually be. So now I'm just waiting on FF to confirm what I think was my O date - yesterday. I'm excited because I know our timing was awesome & I O'd way earlier than last cycle when I O'd on CD 29 & had a 'effing 3 day LP. So I'm just hoping and praying the B6 I have been taking will help with my LP & it'll be up to or at least closer to a normal length! I am feeling optimistic about this cycle & I think it has to do with my new approach to TTC - a more laid back one. Hopefully this 2WW will go by quickly & I am even more hopeful it'll end in a BFP, woo hoo! That's all for now...nothing much going on, but I'll be sure to report back later on to let you know how my 2WW is going.

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PS - many on the TTC message board I belong to were asking what about the green tea I was drinking, so here is the info:

• I drink about 1 cup per day, the hot tea
  
• I drink the decaf version (caffeine makes me loony/hyper) & also because caffeine is not necessarily good for you when TTC
• I use a little honey and 1 packet of sweet & low
• I haven't decided if I will continue to drink it during the 2WW or not, but I most likely will every few days or so