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April 10, 2000

Well, hello, everyone. I’m now on CD #21--one week past the point at which I thought I would be most fertile and then DH came down with the flu. I am trying not to be too hopeful because I am fairly confident that we missed it this month, but it is hard to give up the possibility that it might work this time. This is the fifth month that DH and I have been BD’ing with the hope of conception and it is wearing on both of us a bit. If you count last summer into all of this--I stopped using birth control last June, got pregnant in August and miscarried in October--it’s been a very long time in the trying-to-get-a-baby game. Luckily, I have a great DH who has been maintaining his sense of humor about it.

We are still living in the basement of our house and the bedrooms as the downstairs is coming together. Actually, the kitchen is starting to look like a kitchen again--the appliances were delivered last week. The contractors, unfortunately, built a space for the refrigerator that is too small for the model I ordered (which they knew about ahead of time), so they are going to have to tear down and rebuild part of their work. I hired someone to manage the project, but have ended up having to manage a good deal of what has been going on, even with this other person. I can’t wait for it all to be finished. There is only so much you can do with a microwave.

So, here I am, sitting at my desk at work, waiting for my breasts to get that PMS soreness so that I know AF will be here soon. The breast soreness always happens exactly a week before AF--the PMS sore breasts are very different from the pregnancy sore breasts; I know this from experience. The other thing that happens to me when I am pregnant is that I have to pee constantly, probably every half hour or so starting at about CD #24. I knew last August that I was pregnant because of that symptom. In October I knew that I had miscarried when I slept through the night without having to get up to pee. Peeing frequently is a big part of pregnancy. No changes at this point in the frequency with which I have to run to the bathroom.

My little boy, James, informed me this weekend that he is ready for a baby brother. Several of his little friends now have younger brothers or sisters and he is wondering what has happened to his. I want to tell him that we are working on it, but he is only three, after all. For now, he has a baby doll that he carries around constantly--usually by the feet with the head swinging back and forth and bumping into things. Perhaps it is good that he will be four or older if and when a sibling arrives.

Good luck to all of you in your quests for pregnancy!



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