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I’m a little late in writing this but it is currently CD 32 and I finally ovulated on day 25. Now I am 7dpo and I’m waiting until 10dpo to start testing at all. I’m anxious and optimistic but still cautious. I will update after my first test in a few days.

This week was rough. It started with a strep throat diagnosis which had me in bed for three days. Luckily, no one else got it. I continued to test this week and did up my fluid intake but not by as much as I wanted to. My tests are still negative as of today, which is CD 19. This is usually the day I ovulated on all my cycles before my last miscarriage, but it seems my cycles are still a bit wonky. I’m sad about it a little bit. I’m going to keep on trucking and keep testing twice a day until I get a positive. Fingers crossed it happens within the next few days.

Today is the end to the first week of us officially trying for another baby. A week ago my period ended and I started taking daily ovulation tests at 4pm every day. They have all been relatively low but it does seem like they are starting to get a little darker. I may be wrong though. I also started my prenatal vitamin back up and am taking generic Zyrtec. Yesterday I also started adding vitamin c and Musinex to my nightly regimen. I’m a little worried because I woke up with a very sore throat and just not feeling good at all. I’m worried if I’m sick this will affect our ability to actually “try” if I am about to ovulate. I want to start trying to drink more water and add in some kind of stress relieving activity every couple days or so. I know it’s important to keep my stress levels pretty low so maybe I will attempt meditation or something like that. This next week I’m going to continue to do my OPKs and taking my nightly regimen but I want to add in drinking at least two large cups of water a day and three “relaxing activities” for the week. Hopefully my sickness isn’t anything too bad and will go away quickly. I will upload this weeks OPKs after I take the last of the week at 4pm. Hoping for baby dust and that somehow we will hit the jackpot on our first cycle!

I want to start this blog out with a bit of background. I have decided to document this journey through blog posts for myself to look back on but also in case anyone else is interested in other peoples journeys. I am 26 years old and have a 27 year old husband. We have two kids, a six year old that I did not grow in my own body, but came into my life along with my husband a little over 4 years ago. We also have a three year old son. We got pregnant with our son unbelievably quickly and without trying at all. We were actually actively preventing pregnancy but life has other plans and I’m grateful for that. Then in October of 2020, while we were also actively preventing pregnancy, I got pregnant with twins who we unfortunately lost at just 6 weeks gestation. After that we decided to wait to try until after our wedding in January of 2022. I started preparing to try by going off of my birth control in early December and when January rolled around I started taking a prenatal, vitamin c, a decongestant, and taking daily ovulation tests following my period until they were positive and back to negative. I did this for four cycles with no luck and decided to take a break and that cycle I got a positive pregnancy test about 10 days before my period was due. Unfortunately again, this time after many doctors appointments and ultrasounds we were diagnosed with a missed miscarriage and on May 17th 2022 I had a D&C that officially ended that pregnancy. After a little over two months of mourning and trying to get back to normal we have decided to start trying again. I am hopeful that we will get a baby out of this eventually and hope that happens sooner rather than later. I will be documenting my cycles here along with how I’m feeling about how things are going. I hope to be able to look back at this time and be thankful for the journey and appreciate all of the emotions that go along with trying to have a baby.