What's In Progress

• I'm charting. This means that every day Andrea wakes to the lovely sound of my Special Thermometer beeping incessantly. It also means that when my temperatures aren't following the exact pattern I expected them to, she shusshes me while I cry and fret that we'll never nail down the Magic Day of Ovulation, and thus, will render us unable to conceive.
• I'm also charting Other Things that are none of your business. If you really want to know, just ask Andrea in person, she'll tell you all about it. If you don't know Andrea in person, happy reading but we won't disclose that kind of stuff.
• Waiting for The Magic Egg Machine to arrive. This little beauty involves peeing on a stick, inserting the stick in a slot and following special instructions. The end result is supposed to be the nailing down of the Magic Day of Ovulation.

For straight people or people who are not straight but are using fresh sperm, this Magic Day isn't as critical. Fresh sperm can live for up to 5 days so as long as you do the nasty (with a man, in this case) or use his fresh stuff for insemination within that window, you should be able to get knocked up.

But for nice lesbians like us who cannot imagine using fresh sperm from someone we know, that window shrinks to about 1 day for IUI (where washed, carefully selected sperm are placed directly inside the uterus), which is less 'natural' but more effective than ICI (where any old sperm is placed at the opening of the cervix, then waits for Other Things to carry it along on its magical journey), so if you don't time it right, you've wasted about $1000 and created some emotional stress.