Ovulation is Officially Over
52Day 17 (Day 26 of cycle)
Temperature, 97.2
Ovulation is officially over. Is it weird to be sad that I didn’t get knocked up? It’s only practice right? We aren’t trying yet, so why should it be a surprise that I’m not pregnant? Yet I can’t shake the melancholy. It probably doesn’t help that I secretly convinced myself that the nausea after last week’s kickboxing class could be morning sickness.
Sure, Morgoth had the lot of us running laps, doing military push-ups and holding a squat while she ran around punching us in the stomach. Any out of shape 34-year-old can handle that. Right?
More ramblings about my uterus:
Wine and Sushi and Coffee! Oh, my!
Don't look at my reproductive parts like that...
Just some random thoughts:
Menstrual Cycle
Did you know that some women have a 35-day and even 40+-day menstrual cycles? What the HELL! Who are these freaks of nature, and they’d better damn well have a two-week period to make up for it.
I've been blessed with very regular and timely 28 day cycles, 21 day cycles, 16 day cycles, 12 day cycles. There have been times when I wasn't sure if it was a really long period or a really short cycle.
I’m finding out all this stuff about our reproductive system that really should have been explained to me when I hit puberty. I wouldn’t have spent so many months thinking something was wrong with me and treating yeast infections that probably never existed. I’m about to break out “Cycle Savvy – The Smart Teen’s Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body” and start from scratch. It’s not that I’m been mal-informed. I was never informed in the first place. I can’t even blame my mother, as it turns out she didn’t have a freaking clue either.
Birth Control
Why are there hundreds of forms of birth control for women, when we are only fertile a couple of days a month, and men, who are fertile 100% of the flippin time, only have to choose between regular or ribbed? Birth control for women cause infections, infertility and death and men’s can’t even give a guarantee.
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Nanny J.O.A.T. says:
6 months ago
Oh sweetie- I'm just now catching up on my reading and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read this.
I know that melancholy feeling of not being pregnant when you are hoping so hard.
But I about snorted my soda when I read your birth control comment- regular or ribbed indeed!!
I remember the outcry when viagra was first introduced and was covered by insurance while women'e birth control was not - amazing how that quickly changed when enough angry women bombarded the insurance companies. LOL!!
Just remember, practice may not make perfect - but darn you can have a whole lot of fun learning ;)
Just relax, it will happen - don't put too much pressure on yourself - hmmmm?