And... we've done it!
Currently 19 weeks pregnant and we found out on Friday that it's going to be a GIRL!! She's doing great and everything looks fine and right on schedule.
For those who've been keeping track of my past blogs, you might remember we were trying to keep the gap between the moment we had 'fun between the sheets' and expected ovulation >3 days, so the slower - but longer lasting girl swimmers (X) would have a better chance to reach the egg than the faster, but not so long-lasting boy sperm (Y).
My cycle was far from ideal, with a Luteal Phase of much less than 10 days (supposedly 10 days is minimum for that's how long it takes for a fertilised egg to implant in the lining of the uterus properly) and a total cycle length of anywhere between 24 and 27 days, of which at least 6 days of bleeding (3 heavily).
I started using ovulation tests, but I still blame the breastfeeding (4x a day at that stage) for messing up my hormones and not showing the LH surge even once in the 4 months I tried using them. It made me wonder how high the Luteal Hormone level would have to be before it shows up on the tests, for even when I used 2 a day, I never got a true positive. A faint or slightly darker line was all I've ever got on those tests. Even the cycle I ended up pregnant, never showed a positive test!
Luckily I am 'fortunate' enough to be able to feel when I ovulate, especially if it was my left ovary releasing the egg. For I suffer from pretty bad after pains and tend to get pretty big cysts after ovulation, which can be really painful too. Actually if often feels like my whole lower abdomen hurts, I've even thought I might be suffering from appendicitis in the past, but a scan told me it was just a cyst on my ovary, right after releasing an egg. So even with the negative LH test strips, I could still tell when I had ovulated, more or less.
Our Lucky Cycle was also a crazy one. LH tests didn't get darker than faint, I didn't have very much egg white-like discharge (the fertile stuff!), we had sex 6 days (!) before I felt the ovulation cramping and my cervix wasn't very high up or soft&open around that time either.
8 days after the cramping my period broke through, very heavy bleeding (and I mean every 1.5 hrs bleeding through a heavy duty tampon-heavy!) for the first 3 days and then a lighter bleeding for another full 3 days. For the sake of knowing for sure I did try a pregnancy test the day my period was finished (day 27 of that cycle) and again another HCG test 4 days after that and both were very clearly white and negative.
For the sake of making absolutely sure I tried another test on day 15 (days post ovulation or DPO) which seemed like day 8 of my new cycle and YES we'd done it again! With my previous pregnancy the exact same thing had happened of me having a full blown period around the same time implantation should have occured, only then I found out when we had the first scan at 12 weeks that put me ahead by just over 2 weeks, random, crazy, but totally true!
And now it's happened again, only I tested in time to find out this time round and the first scan done at 11 weeks told me I had my dates spot on!
What are the odds???
Sooo we're talking extremely old sperm (6 days!)
Sooo we're talking negative ovulation tests
Sooo we're talking very short Luteal Phase (8 days!)
Sooo we're talking heavy period in the middle of implantation time
Sooo we're talking slow rise in HCG (positive first at 15 days after ovulation with a very faint line)
Sooo... what are the odds???
This must be a very very very strong and stubborn little girl to be hanging on like this!
And we're soooo over the moon to find out it is indeed a girl, after having 2 boys I kind of thought hubby wouldn't have any girl swimmers haha!
Very happy on my very pink cloud 9, may it be mid April real soon, can't wait to meet this little princess!!
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