The more I find out about conception, the more of a miracle it is that I have two children. I knew nothing at all prior to this experience. Suddenly I find myself at 36 wondering how on earth I have lived so long without properly understanding. I may, ahem, have looked like a bit of an eejit with some of my previous posts. I have been reacting entirely based on the way that my body feels, (which I thought was perfectly sufficient), however, I now realise that most of my posts may well go against recognised medical science. Ahem and again.
It seems that you cannot ovulate if your temperature does not rise. All that ewcm over the last few days may mean my temperature is about to rise because I have recently ovulated, or it may just mean that I have dodgy abundant mucas. Lovely.
Last month when I conceived, I spied some abundant ewcm, had a good stab at bd'ing and bingo! I was probably quite lucky... In my favour however, this month, while utterly ignorant of what was going on, there has been much bd'ing, some of it probably at a pertinent time. If I do conceive luck or God (depending on your beliefs) will certainly have played a part.
I rather wish I hadn't started reading so much. I had happily convinced myself that I wasn't obsessed with having a baby, but, perhaps in hindsight, that is not strictly true. I do seem to spend an awful lot of time mulling the whole thing over. This has caused me to research and read which takes us back to the start of this paragraph..!
I began this process with the rather naive assumption that because we wanted to have a baby, we would. I get 10/10 for optimism (which I still believe plays a fine role in conceiving) but probably 10/10 for arrogance too (sorry if I offended anyone along the way) . I think that I will be approaching the whole thing with a little more humility in the future. If nothing else I have learned a little about conception and a lot about myself.
Happy New Year girls, 2010 is going to be our year !