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At the end of last year I had a miscarriage. It was kind of heart shattering. After 4.5 years of trying to fall pregnant, I had done it, and then it was all gone before it really started. We didn't even know I was pregnant until the miscarriage started (I was only 4-5 weeks). But it gave us a new sense of hope. I COULD fall pregnant. My body wasn't as useless as I thought it was. 

Soon after I started to track my basal body temperature. It's so easy to do, you just take your temperature as soon as you wake up in the morning, and you record it. I use the Kindara app on my phone (it's free). You also can track other "things" to do with being a woman like symptoms of ovulating, menstruating etc. After tracking for a month or so you can start to see a pattern emerging and you know when things are going to happen in your cycle a day or two before they happen. 

Not one of my charts, but shows you how the chart works.

So I sort of became an expert at my own body this year. I am able to recognise from twinges or pinches what's happening, or about to happen. Being able to recognise these things from what I'm experiencing in my body and from tracking my temperature really comes in handy when you're trying to have a baby. 

Throughout the years of trying to have a baby I've come to learn that there are many women who don't actually know anything about ovulation. There are various reasons for not knowing about this. So let me explain JUST IN CASE you don't know anything or much about it. 

To conceive you need an egg and a swimmer. Eggs are made available by your body when you ovulate. 

Every woman ovulates at a different time. The "normal" time to ovulate is about 2 weeks after your period began. But of course not everyone's body does the same thing. So sometimes its during your period, sometimes its right after, sometimes it's right in the middle, or right before your next period. Every body has it's own kind of normal, or abnormal. Cause sometimes women don't ovulate regularly, or at all. 

So back to how it all happens. Your body makes the egg available and hopefully it gets to meet a happy little swimmer and they get to join up and have a great old time turning into a baby. 

Go swimmer, go!

It turns out I'm really good at making babies. I've managed to make 3 more this year! Yet here I sit at the end of the year on my couch and wonder who my 4 little people could have been. But that is another story for another day.

Christy




42 months