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Courtney's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 10/21/03 -------------------- 10/11/03 9/20/03 7/30/03 7/12/03 6/24/03 6/15/03 6/7/03 5/17/03 5/5/03 4/25/03 4/6/03 3/30/03 3/10/03 2/26/03 2/15/03 2/10/03 1/26/03 1/18/03 1/12/03 1/4/03 12/15/02 12/6/02 11/27/02 11/16/02 11/6/02 10/28/02 10/24/02 10/22/02 10/6/02 9/28/02 9/15/02 9/11/02 9/3/02 8/26/02 8/11/02 8/5/02 7/15/02 6/18/02 6/6/02 5/17/02 5/15/02 4/26/02 4/5/02 3/29/02 3/17/02 3/9/02 3/1/02 2/17/02 1/5/02 12/23/01 12/3/01 11/26/01 11/19/01 11/2/01 10/20/01 10/14/01 10/2/01 9/23/01 9/13/01 9/10/01 9/1/01 8/23/01 8/14/01 7/30/01 7/21/01 7/15/01 7/7/01 7/1/01 6/27/01 6/25/01 6/21/01 6/4/01 5/28/01 5/17/01 5/8/01 4/27/01 4/20/01 4/13/01 4/6/01 3/31/01 3/24/01 3/15/01 3/1/01 2/22/01 2/15/01 2/7/01 2/1/01 1/31/01 1/30/01 1/27/01 1/23/01 1/19/01 1/16/01 1/14/01 1/10/01 1/1/01 12/26/00 12/12/00 12/5/00 11/28/00 11/21/00 11/15/00 11/9/00 10/30/00 10/24/00 10/18/00 10/10/00 10/2/00 -------------------- Courtney's Introduction

November 9, 2000

Today is CD 13 of my 11th cycle. I was starting to get down until I got a PEAK on my fertility monitor this morning. I had seven high fertility days and was starting to wonder if I wasn't going to O this cycle. I generally get at least two to three days EWCM but this month I had one a few days ago. I hope that I am having EWCM and it just isn't enough for me to notice as I don't check internally. We have BD'd every other day and then tonight just to be sure. I am having some discomfort on my lower left side so I assume that I am O'ing or have already. If my monitor says high fertility tomorrow I will start the progesterone the doctor prescribed. I hope that I can just forget about the next two weeks so that I am relaxed. I don't want to get too upset before going to the doctor for my yearly check up. I am going to schedule it for the first week in December, I think. That will be our 12th cycle ... I will ask her then about getting an SA done for DH. I have seven cycles of charts so I hope that will help her. I have O'd every month according to temps and the monitor and have regular 28-31 day cycles. I do have low progesterone but I would have thought if everything else was OK we should conceive, just not carry. Please let me know if anyone has experienced low progesterone causing one not to conceive.

My message board is up and running. I am so happy to be able to talk to everyone. It is especially great to talk to other Canadian women in my area TTC. None of my friends are TTC yet so I have no one to share my thoughts with.

Just a brief note to say that my Toronto Maple Leafs are doing very well right now. Go Leafs Go!

Courtney