I’m Baaaaaack: Update
Back to this blog and back to TTC! The last time I wrote was about 13 months ago. My husband and I were living in Houston and were generally miserable. We hated Texas and were having a harder than anticipated time adjusting to civilian life. I honestly thing we started TTC again at that time just because we were looking for some kind of joy in our lives. We only did NTNP/TTC until December and then we went back to actively not trying to get pregnant, which was for the best.
We have since gotten new jobs, transitioned back into the military (reserves this time), and moved to metro DC. We are significantly happier here, much more financially stable, and ready to try again! It’s been almost two years since my first pregnancy and pregnancy loss. I think I’ve processed the experience as much as I can and I feel ready to jump back into the game. If I were to have another pregnancy loss, I feel like I’d be more prepared to deal with it.
My cycles have been relatively regular in the past year. They’ve returned to 27-32 days long, depending on when I ovulate. I have a 14-16 day luteal phase and the brown spotting that I was having for several days before getting my period last year has dwindled to happening for 1-2 days prior to my period actually starting and sometimes it doesn’t actually happen at all.
This is the first cycle that we are actively trying. I’m now on CD 24 of this cycle. I either ovulated around CD13-14 with an extra surge of EWCM a few days ofter or ovulated on CD 17-18. My last two cycles were 28 and then 32 days long so either of those is a possibility. I have zero pregnancy symptoms or PMS either way but do not think that I’m pregnant. It took us 9 cycles last time to conceive so I have very low hopes for getting things going right out of the gate.
I’m expecting my period sometime next weekend.
I’ll update periodically as we move forward.













