Halfway there.

So. I might have mentioned that we're trying again for another pregnancy that will hopefully stick around a lot longer than the last one (eight months longer than the last one, to be precise). Tracking symptoms and taking temperatures and peeing on sticks, all to figure out exactly when our chances would be the best. And we all know what well-timed sex leads to, don't we, ladies?

Yep, that's right. The two-week wait.

Last week, I set some goals for these little-loved fourteen days. To wit:

• No obsessive Googling of pregnancy symptoms.
• No peeing on sticks until the two weeks have passed. 
• No talking incessantly to Gilles about (a) miscarriage or (b) pregnancy or (c) getting over the former or (d) causing the latter.

How am I doing with this? Good, actually. 

No obsessive Googling has occurred. By now I think I know every possible obscure little symptom by heart, and anyway, at this stage, pretty much anything I would experience could just as easily be a pre-menstrual symptom.* (Sore boobs? Pregnant! Or about to get your period! Bloated? Same thing! Moody bitch? Same again! Or perhaps you’re just being yourself!) 

Nothing has been peed on since last dictated by the CBEFM (“I feel so freeeee!” I crowed to Gilles, heading stick-free to the bathroom the morning after the highly venerated peak reading), nor will anything be peed on until next Sunday morning. I will hold firm here. I will! I won't even give into any “but we'll give you an accurate result up to six days before your missed period” cheating! 

And beyond a moment of weakness the other day (“I hope … I hope …,” I told him, neither of us needing me to say more), I’ve managed to find other topics to talk about with Gilles, over what will be, hopefully – please, please – the last few glasses of wine we’ll enjoy together for a while. 

Halfway there.

*I found some handy advice on answering that exasperatingly unanswerable question:

YIKES! So how can you tell whether you are just having PMS or you’re experience [sic] true pregnancy symptoms? Wait to see if your period comes [emphasis added]. 

Consider it done. 

Halfway there.