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what's going on YouTube it's your boy
Aiden here with Jenny Lee and we are
four here with episode number two of our
you know I guess our journey to getting
pregnant and we're very excited but this
this kind of this video is mostly about
what jamie has to go through in this
moment with tracking ovulation and stuff
like that and we got our kit in just the
other day and we opened it up and it was
great and so we opened that we were
excited and so yeah I'm just gonna kind
of be the cameraman and let Jamie
explain to you a little bit about the
ovulation test she's been doing every
day and a little bit about the blood
work she's got to go get today so I'll
let her take over so I was super excited
to get the kit in the mail
I started it right away you know I
started on the 22nd and I got a surge
they call it a surge because it's a
surge in the lutein level I think that's
what they call it
and that indicates that you're ovulating
and so like the first time I did it I
had like this mini surge it wasn't like
a full surge but since it was my first
time I was like super unsure so I did
the test like six times and how do you
actually do the test like what do you do
so yeah so I'm these are the test strips
and I you know made myself a little
chart here with the date every day and
as you could say see some of the dates
have more than one even though I don't
need to do it more than one I've just
like because it's so new I'm just like
double checking myself and you know I'm
just kind of recognizing that yeah like
I'm trying to trust my body and then
trying to trust the process and that
feels like a lot
so anyways it was weird because I was
like oh yeah like I have a mini search
so that means tomorrow I'm gonna have a
big surge and everything's gonna be
perfect and aligned and then the next
day
have anything so it's like your body you
know knows what it's doing and it just
takes so much trust in that and so you
know I called the nurses and you know
they were like oh well you know maybe
you had your search before you got the
kit and that's why you just had the end
of it when you did your first test so
I'm going actually today to get a blood
test to confirm my ovulation cycle the
use of the kid is super easy
basically urinate in a cup stick in the
test strip for five seconds you use your
I hear your phone and you do a timer or
stopwatch you put the strip in for a
five-second to take it out and then you
let it sit there for three minutes and
you use the timer on your phone for that
too you try not to drop your phone into
the toilet hey what's the strip look
like before you pee on it this so before
you dip it in your cup of tea
it has this green part always but then
like this part would be completely white
and no there would be no lines so as you
could see the first day I had a pink
line this is the this first line will
always show up as like the test line but
this line is the important line that
indicates ovulation and when you have
nothing there like down here that means
you're not ovulating that there's no
sign of a surge okay cool so like the
difference between this one and yeah I
like this top this top one was easy
yeah line there right exactly
so but it's not a red line and it was
supposed to be a red line and it is it's
kind of I mean it does change it says
don't read it after five minutes because
it doesn't know okay this isn't you know
this is just a kind of a you know an
example of like your ticker kinda would
look like but yeah it would be red and I
haven't had red and I think it's because
I got the kid the day after a red
happening and so hopefully the blood
test today is going to confirm that and
I'm just I'm just trying to trust my
body and know that it's doing it knows
what it's doing and everything is on
time and that has taken a lot from me to
be in that space so because you're
excited because I'm super excited and I
just I want everything to go well and I
want to look down at my text and see the
red line and I want to just feel like
it's all happening and we're taking the
steps and I know we are regardless of
what red line I see and don't see so I'm
just holding a lot of that and say
you're taking that they're taking your
blood work to check what's happening and
so why do they why don't they take the
blood during the ovulation cycle why do
they wait seven days to take it do we
know I'm pretty sure that like bacon in
the blood test they can verify that like
the level of progesterone and like and
that indicates that you ovulated okay
cool so there's just like different
there's different things that the body
does and produces that indicate that
where the cycle is and I think coming at
it from these different angles you know
especially because we're going to go
into you know have an insemination and
it needs to be within a certain
timeframe in a certain window may want
to verify that it's gonna be the right
window and that like you know we don't
have to do it over and over
so awesome and so you're gonna go to the
doctor today and get a little blood work
done yeah I'm actually being in a few
minutes okay so I'm excited and I'll
check back in with you all and let you
know what went okay awesome I am working
and I have Lee an intern here too so I
won't be there but I'm excited to watch
the video and see when I'm editing I'll
be editing all these videos so I'll be
watching her section after she gets her
blood work done and I'm excited too and
I'm gonna end the video here for my part
she'll take the camera and she will end
the video when she's done alright guys I
will catch you guys in the next video
now on to Jenny Lee alright I just got
blood work done
and mad respect to all of the trans
folks doing weekly shots because
ouch I definitely wasn't nervous until
it almost happened so it was super quick
I didn't really have to wait which is
which is awesome and yeah I just now I
just wait a couple days she said give it
a couple days and I should hear from one
of the nurses about the results feeling
a little bit of an adrenaline rush from
that probably gonna go get a snack or
something excited to be taking these
baby steps towards the baby one step at
a time I'm trying not to rush or be
attached to timing like I was saying
earlier so thanks for being with me
today I'll keep you posted
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