Just home from dinner, and from 2 and 1/2 glasses of wine I allowed myself to have since at least I know for sure that I'm not pregnant. Suddenly, having my period doesn't seem so bad.
What's Getting Me Through Today
Wine
My Question for Today
How much restriction can we put ourselves through if the effort to conceive last years? I've read all the stuff that says no caffeine, no alchohol, no white sugar, etc., and I can see the importance of this after ovulation or when you're actually pregnant, but seriously, how do you last years and years without any of this?
One of my IF saviors, who I mentioned in my last post, Bellaruth Naperstek, talks in one of her meditations about the importance of accepting that you can't force anything to happen, that you can only invite it to occur in its own time, and in the meantime, all you can do is "live your life, fully and completely, taking gentle good care of yourself." So how do I live a normal, full, joyful life when I'm constantly trying to restrict myself?
My solution has been to allow whatever I want during my period, and then 3 cups of coffee and 3 glasses of wine a week before ovulation, and then only one cup of tea and no alchohol (or just a sip here and there of DH's wine) after ovulation.
It's still not perfect, but it's my mid-way solution. And of course I still feel guilty a lot of the time that I'm not cutting out, 100% of the time, everything anyone has ever said could compromise fertility...
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