Aloha my name is Stacie and I am "mom" to 4 beautiful children. This site is began as the journey through my 5th pregnancy which I referred to as our "Unexpected Blessing." But it's also become a site about loss, dealing with miscarrige, renewed hope, and the road beyond this challenge in life.
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*sigh* - what is it with this cycle? I was expecting to possibly see my temperature up over 98 degrees today, but instead is dropped down to just above my coverline. So, I look up the term “fallback rise” and I think maybe that’s what I’m experiencing. From what I can tell it doesn’t really […]
Well, it’s official. Fertility Friend (FF) gave me my crosshairs today. For those of you unfamiliar with charting, basically what it means is that my ovulation day has been confirmed and I can now see how many days past ovulation I am when I look at my chart. FF has my “test” day as Monday, […]
So my temperature did go up as expected and I’m sure it’ll continue upward over the course of the next few days before leveling off a bit. I won’t get the lines drawn on my chart at FF until 3 days of higher temps though, so I’m still waiting for that confirmation, but I’m quite […]
Yes! I’m finally ovulating! Yesterday I had a nice temperature dip…the one I’ve been waiting for. I also got a positive result on a Clearblue Easy Ovulation Test late afternoon/early evening yesterday! I’ve never used ovulation predictors until this month. I have to admit, they’re pretty cool. At first […]
This post comes as a response to a Dear Abby column in which a women wrote to Dear Abby about a co-worker who keeps a picture of he stillborn child on her desk. The person writing says that most people in the office are appalled at the photo and asks whether or not it’s […]
Okay - today’s temp confirmed no O yet. I broke down and went to the store to get ovulation tests. Today’s test was negative, so I my best guess at this point is that O is still a few days away. That’s based on the ovulation test and on the shift in temp from yesterday […]
So, my husband and I decided we’ll “go for blue” this first cycle of TTC. Maybe the next one too if this we don’t conceive this cycle. How does “going for blue” differ from just TTC? Well, when trying to have a boy, you refrain from baby making until the day of […]