It's a Big Day!

Oh wait, were you expecting something exciting? Well, sorry to dissappoint, I am probably the only one that would find the events of this morning exciting... possibly my husband.

Anyway, this marks the first morning of me recording my basal body temperature since getting pregnant with Baby (I really need to come up with a different blog-name for my daughter... suggestions?). For those of you who don't know what a basal body temperature is and/or why meticulously tracking it can be useful information (or give an obsessive neurotic control freak like myself a false sense of, uhm, control in the whole getting knocked up process), I don't have the time or energy to explain it.

And if I did, I would probably do a miserably inaccurate job. If you are interested, check out Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler. Sister gave me this book when we (we as in me and my husband, not me and Sister) started trying to get pregnant the first time and I think a better name for this book would be The Getting Knocked Up Rosetta Stone Slash Bible. In fact, I think every woman, trying to get knocked up or not, should read this book. I wish someone had given me a copy when I was about 15; it explains everything that goes on with your body regarding your cycle and demystifies much about the female body. But don't listen to me; go read the 1000+ five star reviews on Amazon. This is beginning to sound like a lead-in to a book give away, but there is no way in hell I am giving you my copy. Get your own. Technically it's not my copy anyway since Sister loaned it to me... about three years ago.

Anywaaaaaaaaaay, in a nutshell, tracking your temperature each morning gives you a good idea of when to do it if you want to get knocked up. So I finally figured out how to use my 'instant read' thermometer after not waiting the full minute (is a minute 'instant'? seems like a long time to me...) yesterday morning and screwing up the process, so here I am on cycle day three with the first dot on my chart. So here's to me and my line graph taking obsession to the next level! Hooray!