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Cherylyn R's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 1/22/01 -------------------- 12/26/00 12/12/00 11/22/00 11/13/00 11/8/00 10/31/00 10/24/00 10/17/00 10/11/00 10/3/00 9/12/00 9/5/00 8/29/00 8/21/00 8/15/00 8/1/00 7/28/00 -------------------- Cherylyn R's Introduction

November 13, 2000

TTC#1 C#5 14DPO

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. I sure did. I got to spend all day yesterday with my DH. That was nice.

On the TTC front, I am pregnant! I took the test this morning and was completely shocked to see two lines! I know how I said that I wasn't feeling it this month but it must have snuck up on me somehow. What is really funny is that I broke out really bad on Friday and I told my DH well that just means I am going to start. I was really prepared to start today but I am so glad I am not. I am four weeks exactly today. It took five months which really isn't that long at all. I don't think it has really hit me yet. I am not that excited right now. I am sure it will catch up with me though!

I want to stay on this site a while before moving to the Pregnancy Today diaries. It will be another week before I pass the time that I had the miscarriage last time. This will probably be one of the longest weeks of my life. The only thing I have noticed is that I am really tired!

On to what I did differently (as I know you are all holding your breath!). I did use OPKs this month for the first time. We BD'd on the second day of my LH surge (our schedules were really messed up this month). The thing I didn't have control over was that I had EWCM almost all week that week. I didn't take anything to increase my CM. I guess it just happened naturally. ( I know that doesn't help, does it?) We want to tell our families on Christmas day. I will be 10 weeks then so it seems safe. I won't tell work until after that. I figure they should be the last to know since they were almost the first to know last time! I think I had it backwards!

My friend Julie is starting a decorating business and I have been helping her out painting and such. I actually enjoy painting. I think it is therapeutic for me! Anyway, I was helping her decorate two houses before Monday (today). A little ambitious I know. It would have been all great except one of the houses was not ready when we got there. The owner wasn't home and NOTHING had been moved. By nothing, I mean no sofas, no curio cabinets, no TV, no nothing. And to top it all off, this woman had STUFF everywhere. Every possible place to put something had something there. I can't explain how much crap was in that house. Then Julie tells me that the woman doesn't want us to strip off the old wallpaper before we put new up. This means that no matter what you do, it will eventually look like crap. The old wallpaper was all peeling up and off. It looked awful! All I wanted to do was sit down and cry. That was half of my weekend! I shudder to think of that house. Little did I know that I shouldn't have been inhaling all of those paint and primer fumes. I know that just a few day's worth shouldn't be that harmful -- at least I hope! I am sure I will be fine (reassuring myself here!).

My EDD is July 23, 2001 (Fertility Friend figured it out for me). What is funny is my birthday is July 6 and DH's is July 28. So it looks like our little family will have a busy July! Good luck to everyone and here is some baby dust ***********************************************. I hope that covers some people who really need it!

Cherylyn & Baby
EDD 7/23/01