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St. Louis Power Outage!
December 4, 2006
Well, I wasn't pregnant last month. I may have had a fertilized egg that didn't make it to implantation. I will be honest right now that philosophically I do not view this as a huge tragedy(though if I did miscarry at a later time, I would probably be very sad). 50% of fertilized eggs don't make it to implantation or gastrulation. I am thirty years old, the old pipes aren't the way they were when my other two kids were conceived. We all have to deal with some disappoints, and if this fertilized egg had a mature soul, I am sure I will meet with him/her at his/her Christological age in paradise. Nuff said.
My periods since TTC go like this:
July-August 31 days (I think the same thing may have happened here).
August-September 28 days exactly
September-October 27 days
October-November 32 days (from October 16 to November 16)
November 16 and counting, I'm on day 19 and counting, and day 4 with no electricity. We have had a crazy winter so far. We went to visit my parents the weekend after my first entry. I was very glad bc 6 yo Griffin did very well with the diabetes management. It seems that the key to keeping blood sugars under control during travel is to travel when the child is not normally that physically active--for us this is the evening and night time, get there ASAP, and the next morning get up at the crack of dawn and get the kid moving so that he won't skyrocket bloodsugarwise.
We went for a very nice walk in the woods (except 4 yo Daisy complained the whole time) and then went to a McDonald's playland and had them run around for an hour, and then we went out for dinner with my folks, and then the snow started. The power went out that night, Friday November 10, and didn't come on again for my parents until Sunday November 12. We bailed on Saturday and got back to St. Louis by midnight. Then my parents came to visit for Thanksgiving. Luckily I had ordered dinner ahead of time and it was sitting in the fridge waiting to be heated, because as soon as my mom walked in the door she said "I smell gas". So we had the gas shut off on Thanksgiving day, and it was shut off all weekend until Monday the 27th--last Monday. We didn't have any heat, but it didn't matter because it was 70 degrees outside.
BTW, I also started my OPK kit on November 26th, and it was negative until Thursday, when it seemed to be close to positive (we got a good baby dance in on TWTh), but I never really got a good strong LH band that was darker than the control band. Peeing on the stick a zillion days in a row got old really fast, so I kind of gave up on it when on Friday morning we had no power and it was about 50 degrees in our house due to the ice storm of the century. We lost power for two days in the summer, which is not as bad as many people who lost it for over a week, but we have to keep Griffin's insulin between 40 and 80 degrees, so the challenge is to keep him to a good schedule while at the same time carrying on with the usual set of activities for the week. We tried to stay at home Friday night and it was freezing, freezing--35 degrees in the bedroom we all slept in with all the blankets on the bed--so now we're staying at a friends' apartment until the power is back on, and we hang out in the basement of our church in the evenings. I'm at work now and the kids are at school/daycare, Richard is on campus working on his classes for the week, so it's kind of all good, but still a pain in the butt. I don't feel like working much, but I have a lot of experiments planned for this week. We may leave town later in the week.
To top it all off, I felt like I might be ovulating NOW! Weird. I seduced Richard last night, because I felt like if we're going to get this third kid, we should take advantage of every opportunity that feels like it could really be it. If I get my period 12 or 13 days from now, I'm going to assume that sometimes I'm ovulating late on a long cycle.
I'm going to the OB/GYN on Thursday for a check-up and to discuss whether I should take any drastic precautionary preconception measures, like metformin for PCOS or something. I am not particularly hairy and given my fairly regular periods I don't think I'm anovulatory, and I'm probably too skinny (I am about 135 and 5'8". So I should probably just relax and continue to take my prenatal vitamins, and have a party when we have power again.
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