Sunday, August 15, 2010

Making a baby is hard!

So I just haven't been in the mood to write lately.  I guess it's hard to feel inspired to write about motherhood when I'm having such a hard time conceiving.  I know I haven't mentioned it before, but we've been trying for baby #2 for 8 months now. 

It was so easy with Alli.  Actually we weren't trying.  Technically we were trying not to, but we were also newlyweds using the sympto-thermal method of natural family planning.  If you're not familiar, basically I check different signs of fertility including my waking daily temperature in order to track my fertile and infertile times during my cycle.  When we conceived Alli we should have been abstaining for about 10 days in the middle of each cycle in order to not get pregnant.  But hey, like I said we were newlyweds and abstaining that long didn't always happen. 

This time around we've been actively trying, using those fertility signs to tell us when is the exact right time to try.  This time has not been quite as easy as I thought it would be.  Like so many other people we thought, the first baby was an "oopsy" so actually trying for this one should be easy, right?  NOT!