I feel like I need to give an update, even though I don’t have much to update. So with CFA, the mock cycle is part of the screening process. Which means we won’t do legal until I’m done with the mock cycle. They need to make sure I'm a suitable oven for someone else's bun. So I was told to email the clinic when my period starts. Aaaand guess whose period still hasn’t come, more than two weeks after stopping BC pills? Yep. I've had some greater than normal stress at work (shaky job situation, uncertainty of the future, you know same ol’ same ol’ for the corporate America workforce), and then got hit with the mother of all stomach viruses. Our whole family was hit. D recovered after two days, I’m still recovering after 4 days, and the girls are still getting sick. This is day 6 for Bubs, who got it first. So, the point of all this is, I’m pretty sure that completely messed up my cycle. It was already messed up because I had basically a period in the middle of my last pill pack, but I kept taking the pills. I don’t know why. I guess I kind of suck at changing course.
Soooo, every night I go to bed thinking I have to start temping so I can figure out where I am in my cycle! And every morning I wake up and completely forget to take my temp. For those of you scratching your head, I was BIG into the fertility awareness method about five years ago. There’s an awesome book on it, and it should be a required read for all women! If you want to look it up, it's called Taking Charge of your Fertility, by Toni Weschler. Seriously, I learned so much about my body! And I credit it to getting pregnant so quickly with both girls. Granted, I have no fertility issues so that helped too. Your temp tends to run lower from the start of your cycle to ovulation. Then once you ovulate, your temp skyrockets up, then stays up through the luteal phase until your period comes. Then the temp drops back down. I pretty much know my baseline temp, which I don’t think has changed. So if I could remember to take my temp, I’m sure after a few days I could figure out if I’m pre or post ovulation. There’s also cervical mucus to check (yeah it’s as lovely to check as it sounds) but I’m out of practice so I can’t rely on that. If I were to guess, I’d say I’m around ovulation though. Which means at least another week. I hope I’m wrong! I started bleeding on the 18th of January, and before BC pills, my cycles were about 26 days. So, that would put AF at Feb 12. Um, yesterday. haha. So maybe it’ll be a 30 day cycle, and come Monday.
But I have gotten some things done for the process! Took the PAI test (personality assessment something or other; a looooong test to see if I’m BSC), and Derek & I went to the pysch screening, first met with the counselor by ourselves and then with IM. It was slightly awkward, but mostly good. And I only say slightly awkward because I randomly started crying about something totally irrelevant to surrogacy, and Derek was thrown off guard and got all flustered. Yeah, me and my stupid overactive tear factory! But I’m pretty sure she put in a good word about us.
So, who wants to pray my period comes? Haha okay, I guess there’s no rush. It’s going to come in the next two weeks, and then things are going to get really real! Oh and one more update that’s not as happy. Well, I guess it depends on how you look at it. My IM is taking a job offer that will put her in another state! Boo hiss! I thought it was awesome that we lived so close, but she won’t be across the country, just a few states away. And good for her, it seems like a better position. Work is such a big part of our lives, so it’s important to find something you can enjoy or at least happily tolerate. I mean, come on, I live in the real world. Not everyone LOVES their job. There's too many mediocre jobs out there that need to be done. But anyway, I hope she really likes the new job and hometown.
So that’s all for now. I literally won’t have anything else to update until the mock cycle starts, since everything else is done. Well, unless someone comes to the door to take me to a loony bin after interpreting the results of the PAI test. :) And since I feel like a picture makes such a nice ending to the post, here's the bubs (and Sateen) taking a nap in the sunshine spot of the house. I used to do this before I had kids, even when I WAS a kid I did this at my parent's house. She's my mini me. :) And excuse the random clutter. That's how we roll!
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