The Overplanner’s Guide To Pregnancy Part 1 – Preconception

In all reality, I could have started this “guide” about three years ago-that’s when the baby itch first started to hit me… and that’s when I started reading volumes of books about pregnancy and childbirth… and since then I haven’t been able to resist incessantly performing random Google searches about pregnancy and view. However, even though I started the research a long time ago, my husband and I will not actually start getting to business until a couple weeks from now.

Let me introduce myself…

I am a 26-year old teacher from NY. I have been married to Dave, an IT professional at a local college, for 4 years. I love him immeasurably and think he is the most fantastic person in the whole world. We have been together since my freshman (and his sophomore) year of high school.

For years, it’s been just the two of us. Next month, we will try to increase our numbers. If everything in my body goes according to conception, I will be fertile in just over 2 weeks (with my most fertile days anticipated to fall between Tuesday, October 14^th and Sunday, October 19^th). In order for that fertile time span to remain intact, I will hopefully be getting my next (and… fingers crossed… my last, for a while) period on October 3^rd.

How did I find out when I would be most fertile, you might ask? Admittedly, this info did not arrive from a medical expert. It came from an online fertility calculator… you just enter your cycle length and the date of your last period, and it calculates from there. Of course I realize that this is not iron clad information, but it’s better than nothing. I can’t see investing in an ovulation kit before I have even given it a month. I am sure that if I have concern conceiving, I will buy as many ovulation kits as the store carries, but until I give it a few “natural” months, I will stick with other ways of predicting fertile days. Along with the online calculators, I will also pay attention to cervical mucous. (Yuck! Who says that? But seriously, when you are fertile, it is supposed to be like the consistency of egg whites. Grossed out? Hey, I’m just stating the facts here!).

I know that I take planning to an unhealthy level in the eyes of many (including my own mother!), but I honestly feel justified in trying to make this pregnancy happen on my time line. Hear me out… If I can get pregnant in October, I will have a due date in July, which means I will hopefully be able to effect out this school year (again, I am a teacher); more importantly, I will have the summer to spend bonding with my baby around the clock. I am planning to return to work after having a baby (she said with slight sadness, but with a realistic outlook on finances), so having as much time to spend with my baby after he or she is born is very principal to me. Will I get my way? Probably not-the odds are stacked against being able to conceive in the first month that you attempt pregnancy. But why on earth shouldn’t I try, right?

I will be documenting my experience each week as I go from trying to earn pregnant to getting pregnant to having my baby and beyond. I know there are other over-planners who will indulge in my perspectives as I embark on this journey.

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