The Trying... Apr 12

Finally! The time is ripe to have a second child and as I really wanted a dragon baby badly and yet do not wish to have you compete with the other dragon baby in the year (thereby causing un-needed stress to both yourself and us), I have decided on the perfect timing!

That timing will be in Jan 13 as you will still be the soaring Dragon Baby (for better luck and all, hopefully) and yet can skip all the tough competition with the other Dragon Babies! Such a perfect plan!

I have much hopes in conceiving you as my cycle had regularised after giving birth to your elder sister. To be truthful, I have the Polycystic Ovaries Symptom (PCOS). This is generally a common problem as with most females. PCOS may then cause irregular menstrual cycle etc, thereby making conception hard to plan for as well as to predict.

However, with the regularising of the menstrual cycle, my confidence in conceiving you grew a little every day!

Finally, the time has arrived for us to try for you in Apr 12 (plus another 9 months down the road, you will be born in Jan 13, the perfect plan!) but alas, I am saddened to say that the cycle had gone haywire since Dec 11 with my last menstrual cycle arriving in Jan 12 and none after.

This sad fact dealt a heavy blow to me and imagine this, I have been missing my cycle and thus, missing the ovulation (the precious egg that will make half of you when united with your father's sperm) that would have given you a beginning!

The cycle for Feb 12 and Mar 12 had been missing and with that 2 precious chances were lost. In order to mitigate the loss and also to make sure all is a-okay, I then consulted and signed up for yet another Traditional Chinese Medicine a.k.a TCM Accupuncture costing me $900 (for 10 sessions) in the hope of being given a chance to bring you into this beautiful world and into our perfect lives!

After the first session of accupuncture and me a.k.a your Mom, diligently taking the horrible tasting TCM for a week, the ovulation was really triggered a week after I finished the TCM. A bit late in the effect, I would say but hey, late is better than never, so try we did!

After the trying in Apr 12, the next day mark the start of our 2 weeks wait. Basically, during the 2 weeks wait (2WW), we will wait patiently for your father's contribution to meet and unite with my half and then for you to form into morula, blastocyst etc as you travel down the fallopian tube to wriggle into the uterine lining and there, you will stay for the next 9 months where I will then provide you with the warmth and nutrients while in return, you will bring me endless joys with your kicking and hiccups etc as you play, learn and grow inside Mummy's womb.

Looking forward to the end of the 2WW to know the results. But knowing your parents, we will not be able to wait out the 2WW in peace but rather, we are testing Mummy's urine every other day to detect the hcg that will come along and be in the urine when you have comfortably nestled in the uterine lining.

However, 2WW came and went. What followed was not you but a fresh cycle, with the menstrual blood flowing, signalling the end of the egg and the shedding of the carefully built up lining to welcome a new life.

We are not giving up and Mummy is still going for TCM Accupuncture in the hope to regularise my menstrual cycle and in the meanwhile, looking forward to seeing you tell us of your existence through the Home Pregnancy Test Kit (HPT) soon.