Just to be clear, I am posting these with far more frequency this week than I ever would at other times. You can definitely not expect a new podcast episode every day under normal circumstances. But I realized, if I’m going to do a fertility diary, this is the week—during the dreaded long wait between ovulation and testing day—where daily updates feel relevant to the overall concept. Like if I’m doing this at all, if I’m going to make a series of diaries that show what it’s like to be in the middle of this process, then this is kinda how I need to do it.
I also realized that by the end of this week, I might have said all that I ultimately have to say on the particular topic of waiting to find out if I’m pregnant at the end of my cycle. What I wanted to do with this series is give voice to all the thoughts and feelings that come up during this part of the process of trying to get pregnant—they’re largely the same every time, so I’m not sure I’ll need to do this again. Or I’ll end up pregnant in the next week, and I really won’t be doing this again anytime soon.
So that’s the programming note. Lots of episodes in this series will be coming over the next week—maybe every day, maybe not—before dropping back down to less frequently.
On to today’s episode! This is probably the most science-heavy episode I’m going to do, but I realized that the feelings that come with each day of the “two-week wait” (this episode talks about what that is too) have a lot to do with the specific chain of events that happens from day to day in between ovulation and the end of the cycle. So this episode gets into it a bit!
Here’s a preview of what we’re covering today:
The single grossest part of trying to conceive (it’s not all the cum, but it’s also not totally dissimilar from cum)
How early is actually too early to take a pregnancy test
What ovulation is, how you can tell it’s coming, and how you can confirm it happened
A warning about the dangers of being a POAS (pee on a stick) addict, something you’re all about to see happen to me in the coming days, again, like every cycle, like i’m a werewolf with cheap pregnancy tests from Amazon
Bad Eggs Podcast: Episode 2, Pregnancy Test Countdown