And, into the 2WW with a bang.

You know, every month I feel pretty good about my chances, but this month, I feel really good.  There are several reasons for that.

For one, the OPKs seemed to work, and do their job the way I wanted.  Having that holiday this week also allowed an extra round of GOF at a good time, so yay.

Secondly, I am now wondering if I wasn’t seeing the forest for the trees when it comes to ovulation.

I made the conncetion between nausea, etc, and the positive OPK this month.  But the second one was cramping.  When it happened this month, I almost felt like I was watching a cops and robbers show, and the safe-cracker was listening to all the tumblers on the lock fall into place. Oh, there it is.

I’ve had weird cramps since going off the pill, that happen midcycle, that aren’t abdominal.  It’s more of an internal, cervical type thing. And one woke me up Thursday night/Friday morning, and was so bad I went to the bathroom to sort of rock through it.  I didn’t have to go to the bathroom, but after that cramp started to subside, I noticed EWCM and went to bed.  No GOF the next day (on account of the every-other-day rule), but early this morning, yes.  And around noon, the crampy feeling came back, and the EWCM dried up.

Now, maybe I’m nuts, but it hit me this afternoon that MAYBE that has something to do with ovulation?! I haven’t ever measured or checked cervical position, but I did read that during ovulation, it is high, soft, and open. And then it closes.  So, if my cervix is OPENING and CLOSING, well, maybe I would FEEL THAT? And it might feel like a "weird cervical cramp?"  I have noticed these sharp pains since, you know, GOING OFF THE PATCH last winter. And never even made the connection.  Sometimes, I am a moron.

So, I feel especially hopeful, because we GOFed right smack dab between the crampiness, and the second GOF was 2 days after the first, so nice lively fresh sperm, right?  And Dave even noticed that I seemed especially, um, slippery.  Which is good! If you want a baby!

Also, the non-physiological reasons are there too.  Like the fact that my 2WW will end while I am sleeping ona  sofabed at my parents place at the mountain. I’ll be trying to sneak HPTs like I used to sneak Camels. And, I’ll be offline, so my legions (I like to think I have legions, anyway, and it’s better than lesions) of fans will be left wondering until . . . after it ends.

(But, like I’m going to wait the whole two weeks to test. I’m pretty sure I’ll test before we leave, if only to keep my journal abreast of any developments.  The Internet needs to know these things.)