If I'm going to post every day, I'm going to give up trying to gloss over the fact that I'm hoping to be pregnant by Thanksgiving (or Christmas, or Valentine's) and just write about it. I briefly considered keeping a non-public journal, but if I do manage to get pregnant this cycle, I can't imagine writing every day and ignoring weeks of nausea or exhaustion. So if you're related to me or I know you from school or the neighborhood or whatever, try your best not to mention pregnancy-related stuff to the general public for the time being.
I have short cycles. They've never averaged more than 24 or 25 days and this year I've had a few under 20 days and most are under 24. The only benefit to this is that I fly through TTC cycles. My luteal phase seems to be long enough, and that's the critical part of cycle length. If you're a charter and like poring over others', feel free to comment and leave your email and I'll send you my FertilityFriend link. This cycle my mucus-based peak day and temperature rise were mismatched so today I'm either 8 or 9 days post peak day. If you're a believer in triphasic temps, mine jumped considerably 2 days ago and I woke up this morning with sore nipples and an even higher temp. So I tested because I couldn't help myself and those Dollar Tree tests are just so darn cheap. It was negative. As probably 95% of even pregnant women would get at 8/9 dpo. Every cycle of the four or so we've been TTC, I've been fairly convinced I'm pregnant around this point, and then my temps start dropping and I realize I've been overly optimistic. But sore nipples were my first symptom with Peter at 7dpo and I haven't felt that since, so I feel slightly more justified this time. Peter was still nursing a lot when I got pregnant with Leo -- that time my first indication was that a cheese sandwich seemed to make me nauseated from 9dpo to 12dpo when I finally got a clue and tested positive. My positive test with Peter was at 11dpo, so I have reason to think that by the weekend, I'll know one way or the other.
