:(

Negative.

Bring on Clomid cycle #2. 100mg this time.

:(

Calling in the big dogs.

Look what came in the mail today! :)

I wish I had started today so that I could start playing with it tomorrow morning. I mean, don't get me wrong... I'd rather not start because it'd mean I was (most likely) pregnant. But, I pretty much know I'm not... since I don't think I ovulated until today or maybe even tomorrow. Which, brings me to my next point.

Look at these two most recent OPK's:

(No, I have not perfected my ability to travel into the future (yet). This one above, which is marked May 29th, 2010, should actually read May 9, 2010. I'm just too lazy to go back and edit it to the correct date. )

Okay. So. I know they are both technically negative. But. Hear me out. These are the closest ones I've gotten to a positive this cycle. I think, if I had gotten up in the middle of the night to take one, I'd have gotten a positive OPK last night in the wee-morning hours. I think these two were the "in" and "out" of a positive one.

So. I'm going to say I ovulated today.

(In all honesty, I have no clue what is going on with my body this cycle. It's all guesses.)

But it doesn't much matter. Husband is sick... and has been all weekend. So we won't be sexin' it up tonight.

But that's okay. I feel really positive having my new tools. I feel like I'll have a real handle of my cycle next time around... which, if my guess is right, should be showing up around May 24th-ish.

Cycle day 1... again.

Well, my original plan of waiting to test until Saturday was a bust. I actually ended up testing from 8 dpo until this morning at 13 dpo... all being negative, of course, since Aunt Flo came to visit me at work today. Which I almost expected, really... I had seen a trace of blood yesterday, but I had hoped it was implantation bleeding. But when I started feeling really crampy around lunchtime today, I knew what to expect when I went to the restroom shortly after that.

So, in addition to the OPK's this month, I'm adding BBT charting as well. Also started taking baby aspirin (81 mg) and Vitamin B6 (50 mg). Even though I don't have a luteal phase defect (at least not to my knowledge) nor a clotting disorder, I figure it still can't hurt.

I have to admit, though, I'm bummed. Had I gotten pregnant with this past cycle, I would have been due on my birthday... which would have been neat. But, I am going to accept that it happens for a reason... and that everything has a time and place in the grand scheme of things. It's just tough waiting for it to tick around to that time occasionally.

OPK Adventures

Lately, I've peed on a lot of sticks.

(In all honesty, that's a lie. I don't actually pee on the stick. I pee in a cup... one very special cup used only for this purpose. Then I dip said stick into said cup... well, it's actually a mug. But whatev. I digress.)

So yeah. A lot. At least one OPK a day since basically CD 5 (which was March 18th, 2010). Most days, two tests even... because I worry about missing the LH surge.

But each day that passed, I kept getting negative results. Very negative results. The test line barely registered, in fact (see photo below for CD 13).

Then on CD 14, the test registered darker than it had so far this cycle. I got excited. It was still a negative, but it was starting to get darker. Maybe I was one of the women that had the lead in to a positive OPK.

So, Sunday morning while getting ready for work, I decided to test for my surge. I peed, dipped and continued to flat iron my hair as the test "developed." Without much thought (almost forgetting about it, in fact), I glanced down a couple minutes later to see a positive OPK! I grabbed it, ran into the bedroom (where Husband was still sleeping) and shouted for victory!

See?

(Sorry about the yellow on the positive OPK test tip... but, you know, it is what it is.)

SO.

Yeah. We took care of bizness. Now I just wait. I'm going to try and force myself to not take a HPT until at least April 10th... which will be approximately 12 DPO (since I figure I ovulated yesterday). I'd even like to wait until about April 13th, if I can, in case I didn't actually ovulate until today or even tomorrow... or later. But, if any of you have been or are TTC, you know just how impossible it is to wait to test. So, we'll see.

Anyways... here's spreading baby dust... .·:*¨¨*:·.