CD13

It’s day 13 today and I have absolutely no idea if I’ve ovulated. I started using the OPKs, but it doesn’t seem to be telling me anything. First one was done on Sun 3 Jan, which was CD10, one day after taking the last Clomid pill. It was decidedly negative. So since I started, I had to continue it daily right? So the next day, did one more after getting home from work – I stared at it for a really really long time, because I just couldn’t figure out if it was positive or negative! On hindsight, I should have taken a photo of it and posted it so I could get some opinion from more experienced OPK users, but I didn’t think then. Obviously. Anyway, it was weird because the left hand most part of the test line was darker than the control line and it just faded out from there. I don’t know if that means positive, or if I just didn’t do the test correctly. I’m pretty sure it was right because I took extra care to make sure… after all, these things are expensive! I figured I should just take it as a positive even though it’s only CD11 and wait to see what my temps say. Alas, no temp rise :( so nothing happened. Chances are, my body was just gearing up for a surge, but nothing actually happened. It’s probably too early on in the cycle and it could be the Clomid effect creating false positives. Tested the next day again, but it was a clear negative… very very faint line, but that was it.

But despite all that, we dance the jig on CD9 Saturday (spontaneous) and CD11 night. We did try again last night, but consecutive days proved too much for us both and nothing came of it. So we’ll try again tonight, and probably every other night for the next week or so until I see a thermal shift on my BBT chart. 

Starting from yesterday morning though, I’ve been feeling rather awful. Bearable, but awful. Lots of painful cramps and twitches coming from my lower abdomen. Yesterday it was all concentrated at my right ovary area and today it was all across and mostly on the left side. I’m hoping that this means my little soldiers are gearing up for deployment in there and ovulation will happen soon. Feels like what ovulation pain would feel like, especially since I’ve got that many of them halfway ready to go in there, but I just don’t know. Feels like I’ll need to get a degree in TTC to figure all these out! I’ve also been having massive headaches, backaches and sore boobs. Not too much, bearable, but annoying nevertheless.

In the meantime, I’ll keep testing on the OPK and charting as accurately as I can. I’m hoping that CD14 will be the right day for me and tonight’s baby jig will seal the deal for us. But one can only hope right?

Come on little eggs… ripen and come meet hubby’s swimmers!