Saturday, February 19, 2011

State of the Union

A review of our current status, as of Feb 2011.
In no particular order,

Things I/we do:
  • Plenty of sleep every night.  I rarely wake up still tired. 
  • Trying to get daily exercise. (Sit on the spin bike while I watch American Idol, it is true)
  • pH diet (sort of) - my pH does seem to be moving!  All those dandelion greens/kale/mineral water was worth it after all!
  • Acupuncture once a week with Dr. T
  • Chinese herbs twice a day
  • Fish Oil pills usually daily (incl. Cod Liver Oil since we're in Vitamin D winter for a while still)
  • Preggo vit... about 4/7 days a week (I keep them at work to have after lunch - I cannot have a vitamin in the morning, I will literally throw up.  My Dad is like this too.)
  • Read IF blogs like it's going out of style (love them/you all! my fav. hobby!)
  • Pineapple core at ~7DPO
  • Oysters several days leading up to ovulation, to ensure DH's man juice is up to snuff (um, and it is yummmmmy)
  • Track all fertility signs on a new improved fancy excel spreadsheet - CM, cervical position/feeling, BBT, etc. 
  • Use those lovely (cheap) tests strips to check when LH surge is - I now have tons of them, I love testing things, don't know why I wasn't doing this before - oh, right, because if you buy them at the drugstore they are hella expensive...
  • Test the pH of my fertile CM - it still fails to make the grade (but I have high hopes for next months)
  • Cut way down on decaf coffee/decaf black tea
  • Limiting wheat - not necessarily all gluten, just wheat for now
  • Cutting down on my dear goat milk (cow milk is OUT - I can't tolerate it)
  • Check out my tongue to see pinkness instead of redness
  • Use lots preseed during BD to help with pH
  • Keep my knees up in the air for like 1.5hrs when we BD after LH surge
  • Still take really hot showers, and haven't as yet taken pre/post shower temp to see if my temp goes up too much. 
  • Have been transferred to a new RE, hopefully will have an appt set up soon
  • DH is seeing a specialist just in case, had another sample taken

Things I/we don't do:
  • Rush.  If you recall, I gave it up.
  • No caffeine for me - not even chocolate (or maybe just a tiny bit once in a while)
  • Barely any booze - maybe one glass of wine per week, if that.  Alcohol does seem to affect me negatively (I notice I'm more cotton-headed the next day), so this is potentially a very good thing to give it up for a while.  Likely I will imbibe while on vacation.
  • DH no longer rides a bike - just in case.  This is too bad, since we have a spin bike in the basement, really only I can use it right now.
  • No high fru.ctose corn syrup (or "corn sugar" as it will be rebranded soon)
  • No aspartame (DH sorely misses his C.oke 0! As do I on occasion.  Um.. and it made my vision blurry sometimes.  Probably not good - my vision is already incredibly terrible.)
  • No snuggling with DH in the morning until after BBT - sucks, right?
  • No baths.  I haven't had a bath since before we were married.  Too bad, I love a good bath.  Even though we are going to Taiwan where there are like 149 different hot springs, I doubt I will go in.  Worried about heating up my lady bits too much.  BUMMER.
I guess we'll see see if any of this helps in the end... whenever that 'end' will be.

    5 comments:

    1. Of course this will help, the energy you put out will come back to you!!! I ride the eliptical while watching Ellen, tehehe. I can't believe your going to Taiwan, thats going to be amazing.....I think I would risk a hot spring :)

      I think your doing amazing things for your health and your future, I know its hard, but it will pay off. How could "not rushing" ever be a bad thing?

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    2. Yeah, the bummer of no coffee/alcohol..blah, i had to give both of this up completely for a long time now now. I only drink decaf tea but preferably David's tea -banana nut bread or forever nuts tea--absolutely no tea in there at all but still taste AMAZING!/herbal tea--David's tea and Teopia has become my usual haunts now and i buy their tea to go! So i've got a collection plus recently hubby got me a cute mug with tea strainer/lid for hom and i have 2 to go tea mugs for travelling...yes, i've converted from being a BIG TIME COFFEE DRINKER IN THE PAST..."sigh" Chocolate..a little piece now and then never kills anyone..seriously we still need some indulgance! I just woofed a camino organic almond chocholate down last night with DH! Okay, i was on CD3--cramps were making me famished for chocolate!

      Yeah, i agree go live a little in taiwan what the heck you'll return to a normal routine very quickly afterwards after your trip anyhow.
      Hey what brand of fish oil pill do you take? I am the same..i puke in the morning if i took my prenatal vits!
      My tcm said i should take wheatgrass juice? but that thing is expensive! for now i can only afford to take a "shot" here and there from a juicing place. "sigh"

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    3. Our fish oil is Carlson Elite, and for Cod Liver Oil I use the CostC.o one. I have an old gift cert to Teaopia, I should really go check it out sometime! :)
      Yeah... I take some wheatgrass from time to time - I have a bunch of it now, I just made a nice orange/wheatgrass juice this morning, actually. You can buy a bunch of wheatgrass at the Big Carrot for about $5... probably a juice place would put that much into one juice, but I use it for several glasses.
      Ah... CE25 for me today... sigh....

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    4. Thanks CS, with the bunch of wheatgrass from Big Carrot did you have to prepare it in a "juicer"--i don't have a juicer so probably i would need to buy one? $5 is totally reasonable and yeah, it is better to get several glasses than just 1 juice!
      Oh, big hugs for you..hang in there..i totally understand how you feel!
      Thanks for the info on the fish oil/cod liver oil as i've been interested in adding more to just my daily prenatal vitamin. Oh yeah, which brand do you use? i use the Jamison brand-prenatal vit.

      Yeah, you should definitely use gift cert at Teaopia--they also sell tea acessories so a great excuse for you to shop a bit of stuff to make a fantastic tea experience at home..well, it at least helps me relax for a bit and take my mind off of the ttc crap for a while...

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    5. So... I think you technically are supposed to have a juicer, but i just mix mine in the blender with OJ, then put it through a sieve, and push the wheatgrass against the sieve to get all the juice out. Easy, cheap! For the amount of times I actually do this, I don't want to invest in a juicer (I am on the side that thinks eating the fruit in general is better for you!).

      True - I love tea things, I have like 5 million old lady tea cups and a fancy old lady tea pot and things, it is nice to settle down with a good cuppa!

      I use Jamison prenatal too! I find it is easiest on my stomach! In my dream world where I actually ever get pg, I would ask my doc to keep using those instead of the prescription ones you have to take morning/evening - cuz for sure that will add to throw-up-ed-ness! :)

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