Thursday my least favorite family member, Aunt Flo, arrived for a visit. I was pretty sad when she showed up, because until she does you can convince yourself that maybe you're pregnant. On Friday though I decided it was ok, first because she came after 26 days which was my cycle before my miscarriage so I am glad that my body is back to normal finally, and also because not being pregnant meant that I could have some wine on the weekend, which was very helpful in making it through the baby shower.
Saturday was the rush of getting ready for 30 people to be over to my house, and I was cleaning and preparing food. Luckily a close friend on the baby's mom came over to help me for about 90 minutes before. It was really great to have a little help, otherwise I would have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off when everyone arrived.
The baby shower itself actually turned out pretty well, I think that everyone had a good time and the new parents got some great presents for their little girl. I really like the co-ed baby shower thing, particularly when the baby shower is after the birth. We did the traditional baby shower thing and played a few games, but I tried to make sure they were pretty co-ed. We did "guess the baby food", blindfolded partner feeding using applesauce, and my personal favorite chugging beer from a baby bottle. This one was so hilarious, seeing all the guys sucking as hard as they could on baby bottles.....it's not exactly chugging since for 250ml (1 cup) of beer it took them like 5 minutes. I would highly recommend this game for any baby shower though! HILARIOUS!
So in the end the baby shower was pretty good, people had fun, and I was so busy with the entertaining and hosting part of it all I really didn't have any time to feel sorry for myself. Also over the weekend I told two more friends about the miscarriage that I've been wanting to tell. It felt good to get it off my chest and they were really supportive. One of the girls told me she had one as well, and now she has a beautiful 1 year old boy and it was good to give me some hope that I'll get pregnant in the next few months!
Speaking of getting pregnant again, this weekend I bought some ovulation prediction kits. I haven't used these before, but people on trying to conceive sites seem to think they are very helpful. I bought the brand first response which includes 7 tests. Hopefully it does the trick and detects my ovulation. I am a bit worried that I either ovulate early or late and I miss the ovulation at the beginning or end of the 7 test days. I started my cycle on this past Thursday, and I am going with a 26 day cycle, so I am supposed to start testing with the ovulation kits on this Friday. Yay! I am excited for officially trying again. If any of you out there have used ovulation prediction kits and have any advice, tips/tricks or brand recommendations please let me know!
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