Strike 1

I've realized that my blog has become rather boring now that I've figured out or come to terms with all my baby-related issues! Sorry for that :/

Baby-making status update:

Despite trying all the tricks to help get pregnant, this cycle's efforts have failed. :(  I'm a little sad about it, but not too much. I really want a baby more than anything now, but the longer it takes for me to get pregnant, the more leave I'll have saved (thus, more time I can stay home) when the baby is here.

I'm not surprised that our tricks didn't work this time. There's a window of time when a girl is able to get pregnant, and I use a calculator on thebump.com to pinpoint those days. For some reason (possibly a little thing called PMS lol), I'm really irritable on my most fertile days! I get annoyed at the smallest, dumbest things.  Talk about natural birth control!! I need to find a way to get over that or I may never get pregnant..

My cousin said once that she always knew almost immediately when she was pregnant.  There was some distinct feeling that tipped her off and came on right away.  Since we started really trying, I've been looking for some undeniable sign.  I had some bad stomach pain one night.. woke up feeling a little nauseous another day.. I felt unusually full at one point.  Yeah, looking back now, I was grasping at straws, but I was curious with each odd feeling if it was my pregnancy sign.

I really hate baseball (I can picture the glare my sister-in-law is giving me for saying this), but this really does feel like the first strike.  We swung and missed.  We may have swung a little weak, but we tried.  This means more conditioning and, ugh, practice so we can hit a home-run next time.  I guess soda and junk food aren't part of an athlete's diet, huh?  Damnit.. time for me to get serious about this health crap now.