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Ant, AF, Vitex, and TTC

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Our Christmas was AMAZING and Ant was completely spoiled. Ant is doing much better.  We are down to just a few nebulizer treatments a day and he is finishing up his antibiodics.  His sleep if FINALLY starting to return to normal.  While he was sick he was waking up every 2hrs to nurse!!!  This equaled a VERY tired mommy.  Last night though he slept through the night.  I woke up at 6:00 wondering why he hadn’t woken up yet.

Well, AF has come and gone again.  It seems the vitex helped this cycle because ovulation was on day 15 and my luteal phase was 14 days long!!  Win for vitex and normalizing my cycle.  The plan is to stay on vitex as long as it lengthens my cycles.  As for cramps they weren’t nearly as bad as my previous cycle.  I am still confused as to why that cycle was so painful but who knows.  If it happens again I will call my OB if not, I will just wait for my annual appointment.

After having a rough month emotionally about TTC, I have concluded that temping is NOT my friend.  During my cycle I am constantly checking my chart and analyzing every temp.  It was very exciting making it to a 14 day luteal phase but it also gave me hope that we could have conceived.  So, for my sanity it is time to stop temping and just enjoy this next year with DH and Ant.  Big guy upstairs, I am leaving it up to you!

So much more to talk about but DH is waiting for me to watch a movie!

So Far, So Good

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Sorry, I have been MIA this past week and missed last weeks Tasty Tuesday.  After the holidays settle I will get back on track.  Right now I am just surviving and getting prepared for CHRISTMAS!!!  So very excited and can’t wait for Ant to open his presents.

Here is my chart so far:  I started taking Vitex a few days after AF left.  According to Fertility Friend I ovulated on CD 15 (GREAT!) and so far my Luteal Phase is 12 days long.

Yoga on the other hand has not been going so good.  I have opted to just walk for 30mins each night at this point do to an shoulder injury (I trip over a curb).  When I was doing the Yoga on a regular basis, I was starting to notice a few changes in how I felt.  As soon as my shoulder is better, it is time to get back to Yoga!

Emotionally, I am doing ok.  During the week things are great but the weekends are hard.  Maybe it is do to all the contact I have with other mothers.  My new focus is staying positive and not going to “the dark side.”  The last thing I want is to fall into a depression. Secondary Infertility is hard to explain…I am so deeply greatful and loving being a parent but there is a part of me who feel incomplete.  There is just something missing.

What do you think about my chart?  Getting excited to see how long my luteal phase is going to be!

Vitex and B6

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This week I started taking Vitex and B6.  I figured lets give it a go and see it it lengthens my luteal phase and a double bonus of shortening my follicular phase.  Who know is this will happen or how long it will take to happen.  Also, I have decided after the holidays to see if I can swing going to my acupuncturist twice a month.  I miss her and it would be nice to get my body back in order again.

On top of the Vitex and B6, I started my Fertility Yoga DVD.  The first time I tired it after just 10 minutes my arms were shaking.  Today was the 4th time and my muscles are getting stronger.  I haven’t been able to complete the whole DVD yet but today I made it through the hard part.  My goal is to be able to do the whole DVD by the end of next week.  The only downside is I will have to wake up earlier to squeeze it all in.

It is weird to be at this point again, where my desire to have another child is so strong.  After Ant I figured 1 would be enough but now that he is getting older the desire is getting stronger again.  At times the bitter infertile sneaks out and I have to reel her back in.  Now that Ant is in my life I can’t let my infertility isolate us.  It is time to be strong, I wasted enough time while TTC Ant.

I will keep you posted on how this cycle goes.  Who knows what is coming: Pain? Longer cycle?  Shorter cycle?  Longer luteal phase?  Shorter Follicular phase?  Time to wait and see!