kcmb0886
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My husband and I will start TTC in September. I'm really excited and look forward to beginning the new adventure toward motherhood. I stopped taking the pill in January for a lot of reasons, including the fear that my body would take awhile to go back to ovulating normally.
Instead we've been using FAM and I've been charting my temperatures and observing my cervical fluid. My first two cycles post-pill were 41 days and 46 days respectively, and I'm 100% certain they were annovulatory cycles. There were no temperature shifts and there was nothing in the way of fertile quality cervical fluid. I should mention that I did have gummy cervical fluid in both cycles and then the cycles ended two weeks after the gummy stuff.
My third cycle post-pill was 38 days, but I had a temperature shift and actual egg-white fertile quality cervical fluid right around day 25. Now, the fourth cycle that just ended yesterday was a tricky one.
First off, I started off with a colposcopy in the first week of the cycle right after my menses ended, found out I had moderate to severe dysplasia, and then had LEEP at the end of the second week of the cycle. So I've been worrying like crazy about all of that. But in the third week of the cycle on the evening of day 22 and in the morning of day 23, I had very obvious fertile cervical fluid. My breasts even felt slightly sensitive at that time. However, there was no obvious temperature shift at all other than my temperature not dipping back below 97-degrees for almost the rest of the cycle, although to be fair, I was a bit lax in charting my temps because we weren't having sex at all while I was healing from the colposcopy and then from the LEEP. Then I started my new cycle at midnight on the dot this morning, just as I was expecting would happen, making the previous cycle 36 days long.
If you've read this whole thing and stuck with me - since I know I can be long-winded and this is no exception - I want to extend my gratitude. My main concern is that I might not have really ovulated this past cycle even though I had the fertile quality cervical fluid and my questionable luteal phase did last about two weeks. If I didn't ovulate, would my assumed luteal phase really have worked so much like clockwork? I'm going to purchase an OPK for this next cycle just to make sure I'm ovulating, but I'm nervous that I'll find out that I haven't really been ovulating at all.
Instead we've been using FAM and I've been charting my temperatures and observing my cervical fluid. My first two cycles post-pill were 41 days and 46 days respectively, and I'm 100% certain they were annovulatory cycles. There were no temperature shifts and there was nothing in the way of fertile quality cervical fluid. I should mention that I did have gummy cervical fluid in both cycles and then the cycles ended two weeks after the gummy stuff.
My third cycle post-pill was 38 days, but I had a temperature shift and actual egg-white fertile quality cervical fluid right around day 25. Now, the fourth cycle that just ended yesterday was a tricky one.
First off, I started off with a colposcopy in the first week of the cycle right after my menses ended, found out I had moderate to severe dysplasia, and then had LEEP at the end of the second week of the cycle. So I've been worrying like crazy about all of that. But in the third week of the cycle on the evening of day 22 and in the morning of day 23, I had very obvious fertile cervical fluid. My breasts even felt slightly sensitive at that time. However, there was no obvious temperature shift at all other than my temperature not dipping back below 97-degrees for almost the rest of the cycle, although to be fair, I was a bit lax in charting my temps because we weren't having sex at all while I was healing from the colposcopy and then from the LEEP. Then I started my new cycle at midnight on the dot this morning, just as I was expecting would happen, making the previous cycle 36 days long.
If you've read this whole thing and stuck with me - since I know I can be long-winded and this is no exception - I want to extend my gratitude. My main concern is that I might not have really ovulated this past cycle even though I had the fertile quality cervical fluid and my questionable luteal phase did last about two weeks. If I didn't ovulate, would my assumed luteal phase really have worked so much like clockwork? I'm going to purchase an OPK for this next cycle just to make sure I'm ovulating, but I'm nervous that I'll find out that I haven't really been ovulating at all.
