Trying to Conceive

Archive for October 2008

My story

Posted by: Michelle on: October 31, 2008

I am 26 years old and have had type 1 diabetes for 6 years. I was diagnosed after I lost 35 pounds (from 140 to 105) and couldn’t even make it up my apartment stairs without being so exhausted that I had to take a nap when I got to the top. I had lost [...]

CD 9

Posted by: Michelle on: October 31, 2008

Well, it’s cd 9. We BD’d this morning. I’m probably not in my fertile phase, but I could be!
I think this cycle we’re going to BD less, since we now know that DH has a low sperm count. We’ll see how it goes. I usually O between CD 14 – 18, so I could be [...]

Just another hurdle

Posted by: Michelle on: October 29, 2008

It’s hard to say this (write it) out loud, but here goes: DH and I got some bad news. He went in for a semen analysis, just so we could start ruling things that could be wrong out.
He’s only 26 and pretty healthy so we didn’t see why there would be a problem. It came [...]

A new cycle, A new day

Posted by: Michelle on: October 24, 2008

I started a new cycle yesterday. It came earlier than I expected. I ovulated earlier than normal this month – on day 14. Usually I am day 16 or 17. And normally I have a 30 day cycle. So I thought with ovulating on day 14 I might have a 27 or 28 day cycle. [...]