After so many months of unsuccessful baby making, one has to get serious. A girl has got to pee on a lot of sticks, chart her BBT like she's in a cult, and...
(if you are squeamish, stop reading here)
Check your cervical mucus like your life depended on it!!
Yep, I said it. Cervical mucus. It's as gross as it sounds. As women we all know our body makes stuff but I never thought I'd be quite so obsessed with it. Mike and I read the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility and the author made a great point: cervical mucus is gross but cervical fluid is ok. So I'll talk about cervical fluid instead. :)
I honestly thought determining the consistency of CF would be easy. I am, after all, in the medical field. Ha. Was I ever mistaken! I can't tell you how many hours I spent googling and reading descriptions about all the different kinds. I knew I was desperate when I started googling pictures. I even took a photo once on my phone to show my husband and see what he thought.
He thought I was crazy.
Lucky for me my illustrious hubby, being the spectacular man that I married, stepped in and saved me from wasting my entire life looking at CF. My hubby took over the job. Yes ladies, my husband is now in charge of filling in that little blank on Fertility Friend. At first, it was extremely awkward for both of us. He was embarrassed, I was embarrassed. I'm pretty sure our dog was embarrassed.
Then, we realized baby making is a joint effort and CF and cervical position (oh yes, he checks that too along with how soft or hard that sucker is) are some of the few ways that the future daddy can really contribute during the data collecting phase of this whole project.
As crazy as it is, our nightly routine brought us closer together. It made us more of a team in this adventure and my husband, like most men, was given something he could tinker with and he could finally do something to help us.
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