A Visual of the Problem

I briefly mentioned that one of the problems Mike and I have with this whole baby making gig is the curse of a short luteal phase (LP). Today I am poking pins in my LP's voo doo doll. I keep trying to banish it to another dimension or curse it to become the Mars Rover's new BFF because I am so mad! I get mad every month we fail to make a little sticky bean because I know I'm the primary reason for our difficulties. My super sweet and doting hubby really wants a baby, and if he had picked a woman without difficult body parts, he would have one by now. It's depressing to stare that in the face month after month.

Our RE thinks the reason I personally have a short LP is because I make a crappy corpus luteum. The corpus luteum is the thing that sticks around on the ovary after ovulation to make the progesterone that in turn makes women into human incubators for implantation. 

You know what I have to say about that? 

Boo on you Ms. Corpus Luteum. Boo. On. You. All I want is to be a human incubator! Why is that so hard? 

At our initial consult, the specialist recommended Femara + progesterone. The Femara is supposed to make me make a better egg and therefore a better Ms. Corpus Luteum. We are still waiting on our follow up visit to see if that will be the plan. (10 more days! Waaaahoooooo!!!) The progesterone will be because even when I make a good enough egg to get pregnant, I still seem to have a progesterone problem and can't maintain the pregnancy. I couldn't have just one thing. Oh no. That would be too easy. 

While Mike and I continue to twiddle our thumbs for the next 10 days, I thought I'd provide a visual of what my problem looks like BBT style. For those not obsessed with making a baby, normal LP is 14 days. Anything less than 12 is kind of "iffy" and anything less than 10 is "holy batman you have a problem."

As you can clearly see, I am in the Holy Batman You Have a Problem range. ~sigh~

It takes 7 to 10 days for an egg to move down into the uterus to implant. For all I know, my fertilized eggs spend 7 days happily and lazily taking the scenic train from my fallopian tube to my uterus where it spends time checking in to the Uterus Hotel only to lay down and then here the EVACUATE sirens go off on day 8.

I am excited though because this cycle...MY LP WAS A WHOLE 9 DAYS!!! This is an improvement over it's usual 8 days. :) I'll take a small victory when I can.

I didn't take any progesterone supplements this month so my body had nothing to help extend the LP this time. Not that I think that really matters because it hasn't actually done anything in previous cycles. What I learned was that I am practically a reptile without it. (So if you see me sunning myself on a rock, pay me no attention.) Look at that ovulation day (henceforth called O day) temp: 96.4. Crazy! It looks like I slept in a deep freeze. 

Anywho, the main point of today's post is that I am back to CD1 of cycle 1,988,015,653. (At least, that's what it seems like.) 

Onto next month.