jazzers
January 7th, 2012, 09:32 PM
Hello!
I am new here - well, I've been "lurking" for a few months now, figuring out how I want to plan my sway :) Anyways, after months of thinking and deciding what to do, and trying things out, and changing my mind, I finally decided what type of sway I am going to do. I decided to cut out meat completely. I've reduced my salt intake as much as possible (easier when I'm at home, but we've been at my parents house for the past 4 weeks for Christmas vacation!!). I have cut out potatoes, and added in cranberry and calcium supplements.
Anyways, back to my question!! I have changed my diet over the past 5 months to significantly reduce salt intake (I was a serious salt-aholic!!), and stopped eating red meat a few months ago. The other things, like the supplements, and cutting out the rest of the meats (chicken & fish) just started a couple weeks ago. I also JUST stopped breastfeeding our 11 month old 2 weeks ago exactly. With our toddler (he's 26 months), I stopped breastfeeding him at 7 months, and was pregnant with this baby 2 weeks later (no period, no warning....I knew it was possible, and we were ready to TTC - I just thought it would take much longer!! Apparently we're just really good at catching that egg!). Anyways, we are now right on the button at 2 weeks post-weaning, and I've been doing OPK's to see if I'm ovulating, because DH and I haven't been actively preventing pregnancy since we want a 3rd.
Here is my dilemma: I got a faint positive today. I would bet any money that tomorrow it will be a positive OPK, so I should ovulate by Monday roughly. DH also leaves tomorrow morning to go out of town on a conference for over a week, so I'm sure he has it in his mind that we are going to DTD tonight, because it will be a while until we're back together. I was ok with "taking a chance" and not preventing before, because I knew I wouldn't ovulate until I weaned, and I was doing the OPK's just in case. BUT....now that I know I'm close, I'm not sure what to do! Condom's are out (we HATE them). So, it's choose to take a risk or not. I'm just scared that if I DO end up getting pregnant, I will regret not taking more time to have the diet and supplements in place (can't do that until the kids and I return from our Christmas vacation at the end of the week), and that we will end up with Boy #3 and I'll blame myself. I also wanted DH to take licorice root, but we didn't have it here with us, nor could we find it anywhere in town. What would you do??? I thought about going to get Replens and using that too if we do choose to do that....but I just don't know! ACK!!! help :)
I am new here - well, I've been "lurking" for a few months now, figuring out how I want to plan my sway :) Anyways, after months of thinking and deciding what to do, and trying things out, and changing my mind, I finally decided what type of sway I am going to do. I decided to cut out meat completely. I've reduced my salt intake as much as possible (easier when I'm at home, but we've been at my parents house for the past 4 weeks for Christmas vacation!!). I have cut out potatoes, and added in cranberry and calcium supplements.
Anyways, back to my question!! I have changed my diet over the past 5 months to significantly reduce salt intake (I was a serious salt-aholic!!), and stopped eating red meat a few months ago. The other things, like the supplements, and cutting out the rest of the meats (chicken & fish) just started a couple weeks ago. I also JUST stopped breastfeeding our 11 month old 2 weeks ago exactly. With our toddler (he's 26 months), I stopped breastfeeding him at 7 months, and was pregnant with this baby 2 weeks later (no period, no warning....I knew it was possible, and we were ready to TTC - I just thought it would take much longer!! Apparently we're just really good at catching that egg!). Anyways, we are now right on the button at 2 weeks post-weaning, and I've been doing OPK's to see if I'm ovulating, because DH and I haven't been actively preventing pregnancy since we want a 3rd.
Here is my dilemma: I got a faint positive today. I would bet any money that tomorrow it will be a positive OPK, so I should ovulate by Monday roughly. DH also leaves tomorrow morning to go out of town on a conference for over a week, so I'm sure he has it in his mind that we are going to DTD tonight, because it will be a while until we're back together. I was ok with "taking a chance" and not preventing before, because I knew I wouldn't ovulate until I weaned, and I was doing the OPK's just in case. BUT....now that I know I'm close, I'm not sure what to do! Condom's are out (we HATE them). So, it's choose to take a risk or not. I'm just scared that if I DO end up getting pregnant, I will regret not taking more time to have the diet and supplements in place (can't do that until the kids and I return from our Christmas vacation at the end of the week), and that we will end up with Boy #3 and I'll blame myself. I also wanted DH to take licorice root, but we didn't have it here with us, nor could we find it anywhere in town. What would you do??? I thought about going to get Replens and using that too if we do choose to do that....but I just don't know! ACK!!! help :)