T - Two Days

What is more precious than a pair of baby booties?  This weekend I crocheted two pairs.  Craig has always told me that I am "not allowed" to make baby booties until I'm expecting.  Well, I am due to get my period any day now, and my BBT has been up and still is, and I have a hopeful-but-not-wanting-to-be-too-hopeful feeling, so I just went for it and made the booties.  I figure, there has to be some reason why I've never made them before and am feeling compelled to make them now.

Needless to say, the first pair were cute but a little large for a newborn!  The second pair were also cute but too small (so they ended up on my great-niece's doll!).  I decided to give up for now, seeing as I'll just be upset if I make all these booties and then I get my monthly "friend."

First try at making baby booties... a little too large for a newborn!

My period was due sometime between yesterday and tomorrow.  No sign yet, and my BBT was still up this morning.  I'm going to take a pregnancy test on Wednesday morning, since I have the morning off from work and could actually spend time celebrating with Craig if it's positive.  I also want to wait a day longer than necessary for two additional reasons:  chances are better for a positive test if one has actually missed one's period, and I've tested before, right around when my period was due, only to have my period arrive a few hours later.  So, I'm giving my body two more days to have nice high temperatures and NOT start bleeding.

This evening is another acupuncture session.  I'm sure both my acupuncturist and I will have our fingers crossed this time.  I might have him put in some anti-anxiety needles to keep me calm for the next two days until I know what's up.  It's so hard to wait when it's something you've waited 19 months for already.  I swear, if I had known it was going to be this hard to get (and stay) pregnant, I could have saved a lot of money on birth control for a decade!

Well, here's to patience and hopefulness over the next two days.  I keep thinking about a maternity t-shirt I saw that had words on the belly stating, "Miracle in Progress."  It's worth the wait.