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.