mcknight88

I concieved on Dec 3rd(same as my 1st!) and tested positive on the 13th but didn't know it until the 14th! When I took a test on the 14th and it looked positive, I got the one I took on the 13th to compare them(to make sure I wasn't seeing things) but the 13th was positive too! I guess I didn't wait around long enough to look for a line on the 13th. The one I took on the 12th was neg, I double checked ;-) I've taken 4 total positives so far, but don't think I am done yet lol With my first baby I took 10 total tests in the first week of finding out. I plan to do a digital later. The reason for my crazy test taking is that the lines are too faint for my liking.

 I feel like I should make an acceptance speech! lol Like I just won the big pregnancy prize! This is my fourth month trying, 1st month with soy. Soy, I love you! I owe this pregnancy to soy I know it. I want to be the official spokesperson for soy. Also, Ingender, While I didn't post as much as I thought I would during this process, reading for hours on end has helped me to no end. Reading about other peoples BFPs, and soy, and everything else, ugh, I just love you all! Thank you thank you! And thank you for continuing to stick it out with me while I wait for gender sonograms, that will be the longest wait ever! I am a proud Gold member, I recommend even if you never use a Gold feature to join because supporting a group that is this beneficial and supportive is well worth while. Thank you again!

So my first month I was so consumed and crazy about concieving, and let down when it didn't happen, that I was just mentally exhaused from it, so they following 2 months I didn't really try at all, in fact once we used condoms just because I didn't want to try. But now that I've had a few months off, I am back in the game. I think I had a good sway this month, and I took soy, so I just think I have a really good chance. It seems like a large majority of people who use soy get preg on thier first month trying with soy. I didn't use an opk, but there are times based on CM that I am sure were ovulation. Either I ovulated twice, or one was 'fake', which has happened to me before, either way we dtd on both days that seemed promising. The only reason I would think it would have been a 2nd ovulation is that maybe the soy made be kick out two eggs? Does that sound crazy? Also, I only took the soy for 4 days, days 4-7 I think. First ovulation seemed to be on 10 day of cycle, the other seemed to be 13 or 14 day of cycle. I really hope the first one was real and took because that would make the same conception date as my 1st baby, which seems a little special. Can I get some soy stories please! :)

I hate being the person who analizes every detail of my life wondering if its a sign of pregnancy. sigh. but here I am. I wish I could know now, but I am only DPO 6. Time is crawling by.

Hinesight is always 20/20, now that everything is over, I am confident that I had a 2 day cut off and I think I had the best attempt I could do being that I threw my attempt together as it was happening. I mean, this month was 'supposed' to be our practice month and we just decided to go for it the best we could. Now I am 2 days post ovulation. I feel like there is no way I got pregnant with a 2 day cut off, but it happens right? I mean people successfully use cut offs all the time and get pregnant. I know I am hoping for alot. Some version of the bible puts it 'Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists'

If you happen to read this and got pregnant using a 2 day cut off with an opk let me know(and your girl/boy result!) oh or someone who got pregnant the first month trying after removing thier IUD. I'd love to know, but any one who wants to say anything or give thier story feel free, the two week wait to depressing. Why can't it just be a 2 hour wait? lol

Ok, its probably less dramatic than it feels, just because I feel like Veruca Salt, 'I want my girl and I want her now!' So I've still been testing for ovulation even though I thought it passed by, just incase I was wrong, and I was! So yesterday I got dark lines but they weren't 'as dark or darker' but yeah, just about. I was freaking out because we haven't BD'd in 5 days. So of course now that I'm freaking out, NOW I read about the mysterious 'fake O', which would make sense in my situation cause i absolutely thought for sure I O'd on Sun the 13th, but here we are on the 17th and I am Oing! So last night in a 'the line is dark but not too dark' panic, we bd'd. he released as they say ahead of time in a hot shower to do abstenience damage control. We had still been taking our vitamins and sticking loosely to our diet. All I drink at all is Crystal light. we did missionary/shallow. Today the line is confirmatively darker, so if we did it last night and we have the darkest line today does that still give me a 2 day cut off? One day at best? Sigh. What do you think? I just didn't want to waste the month by just waitint til next month after using all these opks and all these vitamins and diet restrictions and crystal light. For what its worth, I think I'm now, finally in the 2 week wait.

 

But geez does it feel like it! I have absolutely convinced myself that I ovulated yesterday even though 4 OPKs have said no. I am sure if you are on ingender you know more about your CM then you ever wanted to know just like me, and I am here to tell you I was at peak CM yesterday, and today nada. nothing. So I know it was yesterday. I don't know why the tests don't work for me, but I am glad I was paying attention to my body since I am trying for a girl, I hope BD the day before ovulation still gives me a chance. I suppose we all have a chance even if we do nothing. I want to get pregnant quickly but yet.....with a girl! eh. I'll keep you posted. :)

We decided that we will not BD tonight because I am really really sure tomorrow is my ovulation, if not then it absolutely has to be the next day, which since we bd'd last night, should give me a 2-3 day cut off. Thats what we are hoping. based on CM and my calender that I am charting everything on, it should be tomorrow or the next day. I really hope so. I know its a long shot but I'd love to be the one who gets pregnant on the first month trying. We'll see. I'll let you know if we predicted ovulation correctly and of course if my pregnancy test turns out the way I'd like :)

We had a perfect baby boy on 08/18/08 but as time has passed by we both have become very excited at the idea of having a girl as well. At first I did feel so desperate to have only a girl(because we don't want too many kids) that I only wanted to do high tech, but as time has gone by, I feel giving a good At home sway attempt can give us a good chance, so here we are. This is our first month trying for #2. I got my IUD out on 08/31/09 I'm 31 and DH is 29.

 ~My period started on 09/02/09 so once that was over we have been BDing everyday. ~I am checking my ovulation twice a day with OPK and it should be coming extremely soon. I have the signs, cm and all that. ~Since 09/01/09 we have both been on the girl diet, not very strictly, however it feels very strict because it just so happens our normal diet is very much like the BOY diet! lol ~We have both been taking calcium and magnisium, and I've been taking a folic acid as well. ~He's been wearing Tightie Whities(but in more stylish dark colors! ) ~Missionary position/shallow penetration no female big O

BD time is seriously lacking during this time. We are doing it much more often then before, but its so boring compared to before. I told DH that once I get pregnant, we are doing all kinds of positions and I am definately getting tons of big Os! lol

 We do so badly want a girl, however for self preservation I tell myself how cute it would be for Liam to have a brother, and we will give him a completely different bedroom decor, etc. SO I hope I won't be depressed if it comes out that way. But oh for a girl. Dresses. Pink. Pink and brown! Ribbons and bows and dainty things. Playing dress up. I really want all the things that come with having a girl. and having a minature me would be adorable. Seeing everyone gush about how much DH looks like DS all the time makes me want that too. But even if she looks like Him in a dress, she will still be the prettiest girl ever to me.

 I will probably write randomly about life during this time, feel free to read, comment, whatever.  I've attatched some pictures incase you'd like to put a face to the story during our Journey. (sorry if they are annoyingly large, I tried to size them down but it didn't look like it worked) Thanks for reading.