That Went Well....

Thursday was the first day that I had to use the Magic Egg Prediction Machine, aka the ClearBlue Fertility Monitor. For most of the month, it involves just turning the thing on but for 10-20 days a month, it involves peeing on a stick, then inserting that stick into the machine so it can determine my fertility level. I was a little apprehensive about the first day of stick peeing, though I knew there were many more days of stick peeing ahead of me so I had time to get it right.

But the day I got it right was most definitely not Thursday. Apparently, it's best to pee for a few seconds first, then aim the stick. Otherwise, you splatter pee all over the place and let me assure you that it is a very unpleasant way to wake up. Convinced that I hadn't peed correctly, I didn't really finish peeing until a couple of hours later, in case I needed to pee again.

The Magic Egg Prediction Machine later told me that I wasn't fertile yet, which I knew. But the trauma of the Great Stick Peeing Disaster of 2005 stayed with me until today, when I finally got it right.

Nobody said the road to parenthood was easy, I just didn't think it would start with the steady beeping of a thermometer every morning or the very ungraceful splashing of pee all over the place.