Now I See.

Bear with me as this maybe the longest post I've made, but I hope this helps others out without making myself look completely ignorant. Being 30 years old and having my period monthly as I should since I was 12 years old (except during my pregnancies of course), I thought I had everything down to a science...today I found out how truly wrong I was and how I've messed up trying to track my cycles. I'm sure we've all at some point messed up without realizing it, heck I've laid in bed crying because I've felt so stupid for not knowing this stuff to begin with! I've been tracking my cycles wrong, very wrong actually. I thought I had 30-31 day cycles and now I'm not so sure. I had always started my cycle day 1 on the day I had seen spotting or light bleeding, this is not cycle day 1. Cycle day 1 should be documented as the first day of a full bleed, wish i knew this sooner. I've been TTC for the past 10 months after having a tubal ligation reversal and after speaking with my fertility specialist last month he was shocked we hadn't become pregnant yet. Well if I had known how to properly track everything it may have happened, who knows. I did some research trying to find hope about TTC after a tubal reversal and I found Dr. Levin. After researching this doctor and watching his videos I now have the right tips on what I should've been doing all the time. I now know how to track my cycles including my shortest and longest days, I know exactly how to time ovulation, I know what days are best for intercourse and I know that I only stand a 15% chance every month of conceiving. I was also very pleased to find out those of us who work crazy shifts can still track our bbt and they don't have to be at the same time every single day (at least for this doc, others may have a different opinion or outlook), it's when you wake up you should temp, for me I work both 2nd and 3rd shifts so I thought bbt wasn't an option for me, now I know it is and hopefully this month things will go much better. I regret waiting so long to do my homework, but now I have a better understanding of how my body works. Some may think or feel like really this woman didn't have a clue..yep I didn't. Others may think I'm full of crap and still clueless, and that's okay I respect all opinions. Or if I'm lucky maybe I opened some eyes, I hope at least. Sorry for the long post, I felt like if I talked with my husband about this he would just stare at me like I'm insane. I figured I could vent a little to the ladies of Glow and they'd understand a little more.