Back At It...Again

So, just like before, I started typing my blog and got pregnant. Awesome. Right? Nope. I had another chemical pregnancy. Not fun. I wasn't that upset since it was really early, but it still sucks. I thought that ttc for only 5 months and getting prego was awesome! So much better than the 21 months we dealt with last time.

I've been putting off going to acupuncture since our health insurance sucks! You'd think that working for a large healthcare company, like GE Healthcare, they would have good insurance, but they don't. They used to. They recently changed things and claim it's so that employees are more proactive in their healthcare choices and that they give people more options. All of this is just a load of shit. What they really are doing is making employees pay a huge chunk of their own healthcare. I completely understand why a company would want to do this, but feel like GE went about this in a really crappy way. They say that they pay for preventative care, but that anything else comes out of pocket until you've reached your maximum deductible for the year. Prenatal care is NOT considered preventative, so it's all out of pocket until you reach their large deductible. We haven't been attacking the whole ttc thing since we don't want to reach out maximum $9,500 deductible for two calendar years. We'll hit that deductible with a delivery. If we were like a normal couple, we could try to get pregnant toward the end of one year to ensure that we have most of our prenatal and delivery in the same year. Of course we aren't like a "normal" couple and can't ensure that it won't take years to get prego. We just have to hope that we will have most of the prenatal care in one year. My goal would be to get pregnant in September so that our 20 week diagnostic ultrasound would be after the first of the year. That would save us a chunk of money. On the off chance that we had twins again (eek) we would really appreciate all the care being in one year because we can't afford to hit the max 2 years in a row by choice.

Anyway...I started going to my acupuncturist last week. It felt so good to go again. I was much more relaxed the first week than I was for my first appointment years ago. Knowing what to expect made it a lot easier. I left her office feeling awesome and with some Blossom 3 pills. I took those CD13-16 and then waited to O. And now I'm still waiting on CD18. At this point, I'm hoping my body waits another day or two so Cork is home in time. He's traveling this week and has been gone since Monday morning.

I need to get back into my diet. I bought stuff today so I can cut wheat and dairy out again. I haven't been as good about those as I could be. I talked to the acupuncturist today about what I should and shouldn't be eating. My tongue is a big give away that I'm eating wheat. It's swollen with nice teeth marks on the side of it. I'm sure I'll get rid of the swollen tongue once I knock wheat out of my diet again. I think I'll start keeping a food log as a way to make sure I keep certain things off my plate. The eating things was much easier the first time around when I 1) didn't have kids yet 2) had been ttc for almost 2 years and 3) wasn't feeding kids at every meal. I know that sounds weak, but it's true. When I'm standing around, barely sitting for a meal, it's easy to finish what I've made for them rather than make something separate for myself.