Photo by Stephanie Himel-Nelson
One week after my HSG, I’m now 4 days past ovulation and well into the dreaded Two Week Wait.
Everyone who has been trying to conceive for awhile knows the lingo, and the agony, of the 2WW (Two Week Wait). The 2WW is the agonizing time after ovulation and before your next menstrual cycle starts.
During the 2WW, we’re all acutely aware of every possible physical symptom. I say “we,” not in the royal sense, but because I know I’m not the only one. Come on, admit it! Does this sound like you?
Was that cramp a sign of implantation? Or gas from the chili I ate last night?
Could that twinge on my right side be a sign that the corpus luteum is developing nicely and producing progesterone for a fetus? Or just a sign that I need to get back into shape before running up 5 flights of stairs?
Am I sick to my stomach because of very early morning sickness? Or because the cat just barfed on the rug?
Are my sore breasts an early sign of pregnancy? Or a sign that I need to stop poking them to see if they’re tender?
Right now, I’m not quite to the stage where I poke my breasts every 30 seconds. Rather, I’m obsessively checking my temperature charts to make sure I ovulated when I think I did. (Thank you, Taking Charge of Your Fertility!) Next I’ll move on to breast poking and deciding how soon I can begin obsessively taking home pregnancy tests.
The worst part of the 2WW is, of course, the waiting. I am famous for my inability to be patient. I even have a hard time making it to my husband’s birthday before I give him his present every year. I just want to get to the celebrating right now, right now, right NOW!
So help a fellow infertile ‘gal out. How do you get through the Two Week Wait?
* For an explanation of “The Making of Baby 3.1″ see this explanatory post!
