Day one

So today is day one of what would be our 8th month TTC, but since James is going to be gone until April 8 (day 22), we're going to miss trying this cycle.  When he first left (last Sunday), I was feeling really down about the whole situation.  I just had this feeling that I wasn't pregnant (which I'm obviously not) and I was really bummed about having to skip a month and spend another month charting.  I just had this feeling of stress and just not really wanting to chart (which I really need to because I took the last 2 months off from it).  

Until....

I read this book.  Taking Charge of Your Fertility.  Now, I had been told to get this book when we first started trying and I already had a few books and just really didn't feel like I needed to get another one that was going to tell me the same thing that the ones I had were telling me.  Boy oh boy was I wrong. Just in the first 30 mins of sitting down with this book, I had already learned things that I didn't know about my body before.  This book is SO comprehensive, but easy to understand at the same time.  Some of the things were things that had been explained to me but I just really didn't have a great understanding of and some of them were flat out new to me.  In any case, I'll be buying the book as soon as I have to return this copy to the library.  Honestly, every female should read this book if she hasn't already.  It gave me a new understanding of what charting is and why you should do it.  It's about so much more than pinpointing ovulation.  It introduced me to the concept of charting being a privilege and something that you should be happy you get to do instead of thinking about it as some huge burden.

That being said, even though I'm a definitely bummed that my period is here and we will not have a baby in 2011, I'm excited to get a fresh start with charting.  I'm excited that I now feel like I finally understand what I'm looking for and I'm excited to learn how to interpret all the signs that my body is giving me.  I even printed out a whole bunch of charts and put them in a 3 ring binder so that I can actually sit and write everything out first thing in the morning before my day gets in the way.