So, due to the Chinese herbs prescribed by my acupuncturist (which WILL improve my chances of getting pregnant, he assures me), my cycles are waaaay longer than usual.
When I'm getting laid regularly (like I am these days -- yay, sexy partner!), my cycle evens out at about 30 days, without much variation. (I apologize if this is TMI, but when I'm not getting laid, my cycles are all! over! the! place!) Since I've been on these herbs, it stretched out to 38 days.
I know what you are thinking -- Hey! Fewer periods? Where can I get me some Wen Jing Tang? -- and I'm right there with you. But whilst we quest ever-onward toward fertility, it makes things a little difficult. Do I start to map out my predicted fertile days based off a 14-day luteal phase? Or a 22-day luteal phase? Or something in-between? I've been seriously charting for about 9 months, and only 1 of those months is 38 days long. How I am supposed to tell?
I like to give the donor some notice so that schedules can be cleared and what-not. I like to give a fairly tight window, and I've been able to track that so far. Where I used to be able to get a 3-5 day window, this time I can only narrow it down to a 9-day window.
I'm not stressed about it on my end, I'm mostly just stressed about it as far as being fair to the donor.
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