Hawking a Loogie for Baby
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
I bought an Ovulation Scope today, which is supposed to aid in predicting ovulation. I wasn't going to get all psycho-crazy and buy those super-duper fertility pack deals that include a ba-jillion ovulation test strips and a 15-pack of pregnancy tests, but my enthusiasm and impatience got the best of me and I decided it wouldn't hurt just to buy one conception tool.
The Ovulation Scope seemed to be an economical way to test my fertility as opposed to the pee-pee tests. At Wal-Mart, 7 urine test strips were at the very minimum $11.97. So if we took say, 4 months to conceive, that would be $47.88 spent on pee-pee tests. I'm hoping it won't take that long.....that would be horrible.....doomed to have sex all the time like bunny rabbits for the next 4 months! How awful! Totally kidding.
'Twas $15.
I just tested my saliva. From what I can tell, I'm not ovulating. You put a little saliva on this clear slide and then view it through a cheap plastic microscope lense after it has dried. If you see a bunch of scattered bubble-like dots, you are not fertile. If you see a "ferning" pattern, much like the shape of ice crystals, you are fertile. I just saw bubbly-looking things, so if I did it right, I am apparently not ovulating at the moment.
Mine definitely looked like the first one.
DH made a good point a while back: "Instead of testing fertility, why don't people just have sex every single day when they're trying to get pregnant?"
"Hhhmmm....", I thought.
So up until now, that was our plan of attack. I posed the same question to my sister today and she pointed out that if the man sort of...um..."saves up" his sperm for a little bit before the woman's fertile time, he will have a higher sperm count than if he were constantly releasing sperm up until that point. Makes sense to me.
Sorry, DH, looks like your all-sex, all the time strategy might not work.
That said, I certainly don't plan on being abstinent throughout the entire non-fertile time leading up to ovulation. That would just be crazy. Sis said that some suggest to do-it every other day throughout your projected fertile time.
I feel like I'm overthinking this whole thing. I'm sure it doesn't have to be this complicated. After all, I bet if I were a teenager getting busy with my boyfriend in the back of a car, I'd get pregnant in a snap.
The Ovulation Scope seemed to be an economical way to test my fertility as opposed to the pee-pee tests. At Wal-Mart, 7 urine test strips were at the very minimum $11.97. So if we took say, 4 months to conceive, that would be $47.88 spent on pee-pee tests. I'm hoping it won't take that long.....that would be horrible.....doomed to have sex all the time like bunny rabbits for the next 4 months! How awful! Totally kidding.
'Twas $15.
I just tested my saliva. From what I can tell, I'm not ovulating. You put a little saliva on this clear slide and then view it through a cheap plastic microscope lense after it has dried. If you see a bunch of scattered bubble-like dots, you are not fertile. If you see a "ferning" pattern, much like the shape of ice crystals, you are fertile. I just saw bubbly-looking things, so if I did it right, I am apparently not ovulating at the moment.
Mine definitely looked like the first one.
DH made a good point a while back: "Instead of testing fertility, why don't people just have sex every single day when they're trying to get pregnant?"
"Hhhmmm....", I thought.
So up until now, that was our plan of attack. I posed the same question to my sister today and she pointed out that if the man sort of...um..."saves up" his sperm for a little bit before the woman's fertile time, he will have a higher sperm count than if he were constantly releasing sperm up until that point. Makes sense to me.
Sorry, DH, looks like your all-sex, all the time strategy might not work.
That said, I certainly don't plan on being abstinent throughout the entire non-fertile time leading up to ovulation. That would just be crazy. Sis said that some suggest to do-it every other day throughout your projected fertile time.
I feel like I'm overthinking this whole thing. I'm sure it doesn't have to be this complicated. After all, I bet if I were a teenager getting busy with my boyfriend in the back of a car, I'd get pregnant in a snap.
Labels: ttc
posted by Unkempt Mommy at 1:53 PM
3 Comments:
I had no idea that saliva held the secrets of fertility.
We got pregnant by accident the first 4 times (3 kids, 1 miscarriage). The only time we actually tried it took 1 year and we got identical twin boys. Proof that God has a terrific sense of humor!
Happy, uh, er....procreating!
You are probably right about the teenager thing, because girls tend to let their gaurd down around their fertile time. Since you are your most horny at the time around ovulation...they figure, I want it so here goes....
Both times I got pregnant, I stayed on my back afterwards and held my hips up in the air for like 15 minutes, helping the swimmers get a good start...just a thought.
LOL! Oh yeah, try to not over think this!! But your sister is right - every day will depleat his swimers to some extent. ;)
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