Baby Trail....Hopeful....
I had just finished reading "Baby Trail" by Sinead Moriarty. It is an entertaining book for those who could empathise with baby trailers, but for those outside this circle, perhaps, you will find it rather silly. I enjoyed it. For that, I have to thank my friend, Claren for lending it to me.
Like the main character in the story, I had began charting my basal temperature relentlessly for about 3 months. Basal temperature is the temperature of our body at rest and it can only be measured accurately after 7/8 hour of sleep. Well, that was not too difficult, just sticking a $20 thermometer into your mouth when you are half awake and wait until it beeps. Then read the temperature and go back to sleep again. hmm... not too difficult, except for forgetting to record it afterwards, or even totally forgetting the temperature after the 2nd round of sound sleeping.
So I charted patiently... as expected, it was an ultra long cycle for me cos I am totally abnormal when it comes to this monthly menstruation! Mine is never regular. It stretches from 35 days to 100 over days. Well that's good when you are not trying to make babies, but it is bad news when you are trying to make one. When is the egg ready to be fertilised? Thinking that tracking my basal temperature will be a perfect solution for me, which requires no medication, I started the daily routine in December 05.
After 45 days, I tried to make sense of my temperature chart. It was a series of peaks and troughs except for an increase towards then end of the cycle. Well, I showed it to a chinese physician that I was consulting, we could only guess the exact ovulation day. We suspected that I might not be ovulating at all!
I made an appointment with a doctor in a women's hospital and poured out my problems to him. He prescribed me Clomiphene, as the drug was supposed to help me ovulate. I anxiously waited for my next menstruation so that I could pop the pills into my mouth.
Days passed, my temperature chart was not showing any signs of ovulation. Day 28 passed by, and I still have not gotten my menstruation. Patiently I waited, until Day 43. I felt that I really needed to do something about it. I picked out a women's clinic from the Ministry of Health website and made an appointment.
Like the main character in the story, I had began charting my basal temperature relentlessly for about 3 months. Basal temperature is the temperature of our body at rest and it can only be measured accurately after 7/8 hour of sleep. Well, that was not too difficult, just sticking a $20 thermometer into your mouth when you are half awake and wait until it beeps. Then read the temperature and go back to sleep again. hmm... not too difficult, except for forgetting to record it afterwards, or even totally forgetting the temperature after the 2nd round of sound sleeping.
So I charted patiently... as expected, it was an ultra long cycle for me cos I am totally abnormal when it comes to this monthly menstruation! Mine is never regular. It stretches from 35 days to 100 over days. Well that's good when you are not trying to make babies, but it is bad news when you are trying to make one. When is the egg ready to be fertilised? Thinking that tracking my basal temperature will be a perfect solution for me, which requires no medication, I started the daily routine in December 05.
After 45 days, I tried to make sense of my temperature chart. It was a series of peaks and troughs except for an increase towards then end of the cycle. Well, I showed it to a chinese physician that I was consulting, we could only guess the exact ovulation day. We suspected that I might not be ovulating at all!
I made an appointment with a doctor in a women's hospital and poured out my problems to him. He prescribed me Clomiphene, as the drug was supposed to help me ovulate. I anxiously waited for my next menstruation so that I could pop the pills into my mouth.
Days passed, my temperature chart was not showing any signs of ovulation. Day 28 passed by, and I still have not gotten my menstruation. Patiently I waited, until Day 43. I felt that I really needed to do something about it. I picked out a women's clinic from the Ministry of Health website and made an appointment.
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