The stars have aligned!

Can you even believe what you're seeing? I almost couldn't.

Not only did I get my first peak reading since using my monitor, but I also got it the same day I got a seemingly positive OPK. I thought I'd gotten a positive yesterday while at work. I took an OPK first thing yesterday morning and noticed it was darker than it had been. So I decided to take one to work and take it mid-day to see if it was getting darker... which it was. So I took another one when I got home from work around 9:30pm. And it too was darker than the previous ones. So, I think, since this one in the photo isn't 110% positive, that I probably had the peak of the LH surge overnight. BUT. My monitor still caught my peak reading this morning! It's so good to see that little egg on that screen. I was beginning to think it wasn't possible. And, even more surprising... this was only CD 23 (*according to the monitor it's only CD 22, tho). Ovulation came a week earlier than I was expecting.

Which is fine since we'd BD'd day before yesterday when I started getting my high monitor readings (just in case) even though I didn't expect to see a positive OPK until almost CD 30 like last cycle.

This just goes to show how sporadic my cycle/body is, tho. I've ovulated as early as CD 16... and as late as CD 30... with some in between. I'm sure some people think I'm going to extremes with the testing and monitoring and such (I know the husband does at times)... but, with a cycle that makes as little sense as mine, how could I not do all I can to try and pinpoint ovulation? It's not as simple as tracking it once and going, "Ok, I ovulated on CD 15 my first cycle... so I'll just try and aim for that day from here on out." If I'd taken that route, I would have missed ovulation the following 2 cycles by 2 weeks. With O-Day changing every cycle, I have to stay on top of monitoring... or I'll never know what day is what and when to expect my next cycle, etc...

So I'm going to assume I will ovulate tomorrow or even maybe later today.

I have a doctor's appointment not this coming week but next week for infertility counseling with my OB-GYN. I'm really, really, really hoping I have to cancel that appointment because I'll have already found out that I'm pregnant and no longer need infertility counseling... but it might be too early as I'll only be 10 DPO (give or take a day). So, if I am pregnant with this cycle... and haven't gotten a BFP by then, maybe I can get him to give me a blood test on that day while I'm there.

Anyways. I have a yard that needs mowed. Thanks to all the rain (and a bad backache this past week), it's a bit outta shape.

Stay tuned!

*A bit of an explanation as to why the CD's are off from the monitor to FF. The monitor gives you a 6 hour window within which you test. Mine's at 7am. So I can test as early as 4am and as late as 10am. So on my actual CD 1 this past cycle, Aunt Flo showed up later in the day after my 6 hour window was over. So I had to wait until CD 2 to restart the monitor... which puts the monitor a day shorter than my actual CD of 23. :)