We ended up conceiving just 5 months after we started trying. I was both right and wrong about us having difficulty with it. If it wasn't for some amazing support groups I may never have heard of this little miracle in a tube called preseed. I honestly don't think we would have gotten pregnant without it. My body was still all kinds of messed up from my cervical surgeries and I wasn't making ANY fertile cervical fluid. It's all but impossible to conceive without this goop. Preseed is the only lube that mimics this stuff and wont kill sperm. First month using it and we got pregnant.
So backing up a bit. Moving was a nightmare, actually just finding a place was a nightmare. Everything was going wrong. We had to keep pushing back our "get the hell out of Flagstaff date." In Flagstaff, having cats or dogs rarely prevents someone from renting. In Phoenix, cats are evil apparently. Soon as we said there were 3 cats with us, landlords RAN. Our Realtors were telling us to lie, which I am SO not cool with. We were on our second or third tip to the Valley to look for houses and none panned out. We had one last day and our amazing new realtor sent us a list. Half the houses were rented by the next day. We got to see ONE. Just one house, and we loved it! I refused to get attached in case things fell through YET again. We told him we had three cats, he hesitated. We pushed, saying they were all fixed, well behaved little critters. He still wiffle waffled, then I said the magic words. "What if my current landlord will provide a letter attesting to their good behavior?" He love the idea. And my current landlord loved us AND our cats and were more than happy to sing our praises. We got the house!
Todd, our landlord, wanted a few weeks to finish fixing up the place. We set a move in date of Nov 3. We set a move out date of Nov 31 for our POS. Plenty of time, right? Well, not really. Mike and I were supposed to go to Colorado with my dad and brother for Thanksgiving, to see my moms family for the first time in 12 years. Mike and I got down to packing, taking a few car loads down to Phoenix early in the month. Things literally came down to the wire.
Now we were still TTC that month. I stopped with the temping as we were staying up until 3am to pack and waking up at 9am. I was supposed to ovulate the day before Thanksgiving. I didn't give the cycle much hope to be honest. On the 20th I got a positive OPK. I was ovulating EARLY, which was so not like my body. We had some fun with the preseed and then passed out. The morning of the 21st we picked up a 26 ft Pen.ske truck! We worked all day loading the thing, our help never showed up as he got tied up at work. We didn't finish that night and were now behind. Woke up at the ass crack of dawn the 22nd and continued. Our help arrived!
Things went quickly from there. When we were all loaded I took the
We had fun in Trinidad and were finally able to relax. I had a few drinks with my family (I know, shame on me drinking in the tww) I had already decided we failed that month. Seeing my my family was bittersweet. Though my Great Uncle Tony is so cute. Hes in his mid 90's and still putters around the house insisting on doing everything himself. Despite the fact that there are close to 80 people in that house willing to help. I was sad to leave as we were not planning a return trip until 2013. (We are going this year now to introduce the newest family member)
The drive back was uneventful and we spent a full day cleaning the old POS before heading home for good at midnight. We got home Monday the 28th. Spent the next few days unpacking. I was EXHAUSTED and just wanted to sleep. And I was dealing with constant heartburn, so not a happy camper. I chalked it all up to the stress of the move, trip and now unpacking. On Saturday December 3, I decided I wanted to relax with a beer after a day of unpacking. Figured I should test *just in case* So at 6pm I peed on a stick. Stuck it back in its little foil wrapper and very nearly threw it away. Why the heck was I bothering? No way I was pregnant. The thought was complete INSANITY.
No way that's a line, I had to be seeing thing!
I scream (literally, my voice cracked) for Mike and he saw it too! But him being a man, he didn't really believe it, to faint. Total buzzkill. Stupid boy. So we went to the store and bought "real tests" (wanted to smack him at this point) to take in the morning.
"So, do you see THAT one?"
And just in case he was STILL in denial. Yeah, buddy!
This post has now reached quite epic proportions so I am going to leave it here and pick up tomorrow. (I swear I will!) Plus, I haven't peed since I started writing this and I think that's a new record for me.
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