I’m older and wiser now…by a month. (I also wrote wizer and had to correct it…so yeah. Thank you auto-correct for not making me seem like an idiot, and for making it impossible to remember how to spell anything.) So definitely much smarter the second time.
My spouse and I are in month 2 of TTC. That stands for trying to conceive, in case you, like I, didn’t know. Last time we went into it with no knowledge…well except the general understanding of how babies are made. If you read my earlier posts, you know I based my fertility window on what my Apple Watch told me. I also didn’t know what a fertility window really meant.
Wait, when is my fertility window?
So this time around a friend clued me into the app Ovia. And thank the goddess for her, and she was using it to not get pregnant! Ovia is fucking awesome. It has all sorts of symptom input options. Because I was entering them every day, it noticed the change in my cervical mucus, and changed my fertility window! The Apple Watch did not do that, and it turns out it predicted my fertility window as way later than it actually is!
I did notice my vaginal fluid turns to egg whites every once and a while, and I get a lot of it. Well, it turns out that can mean you are ovulating. I logged those stringy suckers in Ovia, and it was just short of being like HAVE SEX NOW! I confirmed that shit by peeing on an ovulation stick, and it was like yup, today, on Samhain, you are ovulating.
The Long Wait
So we did it on Halloween, and now we are in the long wait again. This is still painful. But last time I went into it not knowing there was a two-week wait between ovulating and taking a pregnancy test. Now I know it is a little longer of a wait for me, but I was expecting that.
I am also not overanalyzing every little thing I feel as a sign that I am pregnant. Don’t get me wrong, I want to. But I am reminding myself that the things I feel could just as likely be other late luteal phase symptoms, even if I am not pregnant.
Another thing I love about Ovia is it gives you a fertility score, and forecast. What day and stage of your cycle you are in. How many days you have until your next fertile window. And most importantly at this point…how many days until a pregnancy test!
If you are/were pregnant, did you struggle to wait to find out? If we are pregnant, how jealous are you that they were conceived on Halloween? Let us know in the comments!