All Natural

Well, I've started bleeding this evening so tomorrow will be considered cycle day 1. Got about 2-3 weeks until O (ovulation) time. Stay tuned to see my OPKs (ovulation predictor kits) turn positive!!

Belly Button

Now you must realize this blog is not necessarily only for the enjoyment of my readers.. it is to document as much about our TTC journey as possible. Even though sometimes the information and images may not be what you wanted to see, hear or read. But I have to say that my stitches came out of my belly button today!! My little scar is healing up very nicely.

I'm not sure what the weird dark area is inside my button, I think it's just shadows, but the scar is on the very edge of the lower part of my button.

I had a stupid belly button ring (no offense to those that have them) put in when I graduated HS and I took it out probably 6 months after it was put in. Will I always have that little hole in my skin?? It's completely closed up.. just still has a small hole on the outside.

7 pills

7 pills to go!!

AF should be here on January 25th. On my last natural cycles, I O'd (ovulated) around day 18 of my cycle. I will be using my handy dandy ovulation kits to make sure we don't miss my fertile time. It has been forever since I was able to use those ovulation kits.. but they are fun to pee on because I do get to see a 2nd line. Almost as exciting as a pregnancy test, but not quite. Not too much longer and the pee-on-a-stick-fest will begin.

Change Up

After much thought, I have decided to start another blog. Jared brought up the idea of having a blog that we can share with all of our family and I can combine that with a photography blog for my photo clients to see as well. I've seen a few professional photographers combine a personal and photo blog for family friends and clients, and I like the idea. I just won't be able to get as personal on there.

The Kuntz Conception Chronicles will now be stricly used for only TTC and pregnancy related business. All other posts will be on my new blog. At some point, I will stop using this conception blog, but for the meantime it means you will have to check 2 blogs if you want to see all of my posts.

I've tried to make this a tad easier on you all by adding a "subscribe to me" option. Over on the right hand side of this page, you will see an area where you can enter your email address to subscribe to my blogs. That way, you will be notified whenever I post a new blog so you don't have to be checking 2 blogs if I haven't posted anything new.

If you need help being subscribed to my blogs, leave a comment with your email address and I will subscribe for you.

Here is my New Blog.. (it's not all dolled up yet)

Geek Squad

Yes, here are me and Jenny (and Coco)..

Quite lovely sisters, I must say.

Jen and Chris moved into their new place today and we took these pictures in their bathroom. Yes, they left the farm. Not because it was a bad experience (although it isn't as fun as some would think it is), but because they had an empty rental house that needed to be occupied. They have fixed it up so nice.. maybe Jen will blog about it some time.

I can't wait

I can't wait until I have a baby to take pictures of. But for now, you will have to suffer through pictures of my pugs. Here is Princess again..

Good appointment!

We just got back from the post-op appt. It went very well!!

My appt. was scheduled for 3:00 and the Dr. didn't see us until 4. uggh. Oh well, here are the details:

First and foremost, the polyp was benign!!! I got kinda scared because when my Dr. entered the room, he was followed by another Dr. and she introduced herself and told me she was a general practice Dr. or something. I wasn't really paying attention because I immediately started thinking that the polyp was cancerous and that's why she was there too. But he told me the polyp was benign and then proceeded to show me all sorts of neat pictures that were taken of my insides during the surgery. It was so neat to see all of them.

Ok, so the good news is my ovaries and tubes looked great. They even pushed dye through my tubes again (like I had done in January last year) and the dye flowed through just fine, so my tubed are nice and open.

He then showed me photos of the polyp and of the endo. He said that my endo was in the beginning stages but that I've had it for probably around 5 years. He said it was very easy to remove and I am all cleaned up now.

I asked him if we can start trying again on my next cycle and he said, "Absolutely!" I told him how my AF may be starting at a bad time this next cycle because we are planning a trip to Colorado with the fam and it may get in the way of doing the shots and making it to my appointments, so he suggested we try on our own for a month. He said that our chances have increased by about 30% after having this surgery, so we should give it a go on our own and if it doesn't work, we can start with the shots on my next cycle after that. YAY!!!!

He did mention that we will be pregnant soon, he thought at least in 1-2 medicated cycles we will be there. But, hopefully it happens on our own!

Also, he said that after a pregnancy and after I have finished breast feeding when I start having periods again, I really should go back on the pill and be on a pill that only lets me have around 4 periods a year. He said for people with endo, it is not good to have periods so frequently as it allows the endo to come back alot quicker with each period.

So, that is all I have for now. I am very happy with the news that we got today and I hope we are on our way to a BFP!!!

Post-Op appointment

My appointment has now been rescheduled for Monday at 3pm. As always, there was some confusion at my Dr's office and instead of being scheduled for a post-op appt tomorrow, I was only down for a sono/lab. But, my nurse said that I am not ready to do another medicated cycle yet (uterus needs to heal some before it's ready for a pregnancy), so they cancelled my sono/lab appt. and didn't have a spot for a post-op appt until Monday.

So, I will go back on the pill, go talk with the Dr. on Monday and then hopefully be able to TTC again when my next cycle begins (in about 3 weeks), but the Dr. will let me know more on Monday.

Sheesh.. I am ready to be done with these Dr. appt's for a while. Even though when I get pg, it will be a whole new realm of Dr. appt's again. Fun.

Just because

I have nothing else to blog about.. here is Jared getting the truck ready to take me for surgery.

Here is me and Princess snuggling in bed after surgery.

And here is my latest purchase on ebay.. 20 PG tests!! hehe FUN!


Tomorrow is my first day back to work after a long, nice vacation. I have recovered well from the surgery, but I am still having some bad pains in my shoulder area that is being caused by the gas that they used during the surgery. It usually only bothers me when I am up moving around alot, so hopefully just sitting at my desk at work will be fine. Today was much better than the past few days though. I was up moving around almost all day and the pain didn't start until around 1 or 2 this afternoon.

I will update after my appointment on Thursday. Oh, and I think AF is starting today.