Temping

Just wanted to note here that I have decided to temp this cycle, but only once I notice the first fertile signs, so that I can see if I ovulate after EWCM. Last cycle was so long and drawn out, and I had various patches of EWCM throughout the cycle, most (or all?!) of which never did end up resulting in ovulation! So I think I would prefer to know one way or the other this cycle. I just like to know what is going on with my body.

So I'm on CD21 today and already day 4 of EWCM! Much more like my norm - well, as normal as it ever gets postpartum for me! It's also much more "definite" than some of the EWCM last cycle. I just mean that it's looking to me like what I usually get in the run-up to ovulation, so perhaps I will?

Sooo with that in mind, I have just started temping again! I find it so much fun, and it's really NOT that exciting, so I have no idea why it just IS for me, lol! But it is :) Maybe it's remnant of "the chase" from previous times hoping or trying for a baby?! I am doing what I did after my other babies - I wake several/many times a night with the baby to feed him, and he ends up staying in bed with me from somewhere or other in the middle of the night, so I don't have to really wake up all that much when he feeds. Around 6am he is more persistantly fidgetty and usually I wake up enough to realise he's not taking the 7th or 8th breast I'm pushing towards him about 10 minutes later! ;) So that's when I temp. Once I know it's the "up for the day" feed, that's when I do it. Even if I was also up at 5am. For me, it doesn't appear to skew my chart, it has always given me a clear biphasic ovulatory pattern even with the night wakings or less than an hour's sleep before temping, etc - all those rules that you're not meant to break! ;) Thankfully it works for me to do it anyway.

So I started temping! And, um, something else...! ;) Now, it LOOKS like we timed that, I know, but we really did not think about babies at all, honestly! It's good to get back to parsnips, and I really think we should have a lot sooner than this! Now, God has made my hormones so that it's precisely when I'm fertile that I will be likely to partake of the aforementioned root vegetables, and we have no intention of even thinking about birth control this time. I mean, I didn't last time (before Benjamin), but Neil did. This time it's not even in our thoughts, which is lovely lovely lovely! :) So, I'm pretty sure that my luteal phase is still very short. I'm only 6 months postpartum, and that is when (all the other times!) I usually get my FIRST postpartum period! This is my third cycle now. I'm not particularly planning to "chart watch" (Oh who am I kidding??!?! You know me! (lots of you do, anyway, lol!)) but I will be interested to see a) when I ovulate this cycle, and b) how long my luteal phase is. I'm looking forward to temping to see for sure too! :)

I can't think of anything else of relevance right now... Oh except my mum said on the phone the other night that if I DO ever get pregnant again, it will of course be an ACCIDENT. Because after 4 babies, a fifth time would HAVE to be an accident. Even though she knows that isn't how we feel! *sigh*

And I am waiting to be an auntie again! :) Bennie (my brother) and Sarah are expecting their second little one around Feb 4th!! Excitement! She was almost 2 weeks past her due date last time, so it may be a while yet, but yay how exciting!!!! I can't wait for newwwws, and gender and name (they're keeping it a surprise!), and newborn snuggles! They came over here last weekend to pick up an infant carseat and my TENS machine and some Moses basket sheets. And my Hugabub (and Shannon's homemade baby sling, by the way - thanks Shannon, it'll be put to good use!!) too! Sarah looks really well. Soooo much smaller than I ever am at the end of pregnancy, but she carries so much more neatly than I do! Thea is their first, and she's 2 and a half now. She is as tall as Matthew (3.5 and very petite!) and talks more clearly than he does too. She seems closer in age to Arthur than Matthew, in many ways, but she's actually in between Matthew and Nathan. She is potty trained too. Arthur amused me after they went, commenting that Thea will be getting a baby brother or sister "at last", haha! I guess for him, it isn't normal to "have to wait" till you're two-and-a-half before you become a big brother or sister! ;) He doesn't know it's the average normal age-gap, hehe!

Okay, must go to bed now. But I wanted to update about the temping and chart-related stuff tonight. I'll post again another time probably!