TGIF

This has been a long and memorable week, however, I am so glad its Friday. Thanks for all your comments yesterday.

For a change I have no plans this weekend - none!

I am going to relax, laze around and let my mood and energy dictate what I do. I rarely have unplanned weekends so I am looking forward to it.

Tomorrow I wanted to go for my usual Sat yoga class. I had skipped last weekend during my TWW and I don't like skipping class since I enjoy it so much.  It is a 90 minutes intense yoga workout which leaves one with quavering legs since they have you hold poses for so long.  I was planning on taking it really slow tomorrow and not doing any deep twists for obvious reasons. But my Mom was worried when I told her and has practically forbidden me from going yet (so sweet!).  So, I will skip it tomorrow and do a simple practice at home to stretch my quads and hamstrings and arms.

Next week when things are a bit more confirmed, I will decide what to do. Normally if a  person is active before pregnancy they encourage you to keep up the activity level. Regardless when I go back I will tell my yoga instructor so she can give me modifications and tell me what asanas I need to avoid.

I have however been going for walks throughout my TWW.  I substituted my normal walk which includes a steep climb back to the house, for a more levelled surface walk around a few neighbourhoods. However, the past couple of evenings we had poor air quality warnings and its been 90% humidity so I have skipped.  I really feel a I need a good workout, so I may go to the gym and get on the treadmill instead.

Early morning today, I walked to the close by shopping area and did vacuuming so that made me feel better.

I had asked the nurse on Thursday if I could resume normal activity. She said yes...then asked me what I meant by normal activity...so I told her walking, yoga, lifting stuff e.g. watering can, vacuuming. She said fine.

I also asked her about caffeine and if I could have decaffeinated black tea. This TWW I was really really good. I did not even have decaf tea which I would think would normally be okay. I had no sugar, except the pancakes on Sat and no chocolate either. I ate a lot of protein and drank lots of water.

So, today I indulged in a cup of decaf tea...and will get back to drinking one cup a day. I know that 200mg of caffeine is allowed but for now I will just be cautious and have the one decaf and see how it all goes.

Another interesting thing - I have had two people approach me with potential job opportunities.

One is my current colleague who is wanting to leave and interviewing with a new company. They have some other positions open and she was wondering if I wanted to apply.

Then today  got a call from a past colleague who was wondering if I was looking for a change, since his company was hiring.

What timing, huh!

I declined both.

My female colleague/friend knew that I was cycling and that I got a BFP. She understands that it makes sense for me to stay with my current job.  The guy who called today I told him I was not actively looking but that I will reach out to him in a few months.

I have wanted to change jobs for years but held off in the hope that I would get pregnant and my current tele-commuting job is conducive in the event I have a baby. Of course, each passing year with no baby was hard, but right now its not a good time and I doubt I will have the energy to be doing interviews etc. I just want to focus on this pregnancy and if this does not materialize try another round FET.

It will be interesting if my colleague leaves since I will be the only one left out of three. My other colleague in London quit earlier this month. If that happens I will make sure I renegotiate my salary with my boss. I will not do 3 people's job at my current pay!

I have a lot of travel coming up too.

Two back to back trips in mid Sept. and a potential one in end Aug. One of the Sept trips is  a trade show where I am to set up and manage a booth, by myself!  Nobody has brought up London trip again ...thankfully!

On symptom front - nothing much.  Boobs are barely sore. The worrying pains on the left side are gone thankfully. I do get occasional pains here and there in the lower abdomen and which are unlike anything I have felt before and in spots I have never felt before. My belly button is tender and now that I think back it has been since a day or so after transfer. I have an incision there from my robotic myomectomy so I did not pay attention to it, but its definitely tender which I find very weird. I was pretty tired in the afternoon but now feel super energetic.

The adventure continues.....