[00:00:04] Speaker A: Welcome to start to finish motherhood, a podcast for those thinking or already single mothers by choice. Just looking for practical advice for navigating life's relationships. When you decide to have children on your own, it doesn't mean that you're completely alone. I'm Aisha Jenkins, and I'm partnering with you every step of your journey.
[00:00:26] Speaker B: All of that, because the body is just so wonderful to me because, like, I snore. So, like, that. The women in. In my groups, they were like, oh, you need to start taking your temperature in your vagina, because if you sleep with your mouth open, then the temperature is not really your real temperature. So when I had my son, I was just sticking the thermometer down there. Nobody wants my thermometer now, but, I mean, you really have to be so comfortable with your body. It's like, yes, I'm trying to make this baby, and I'm literally taking my temperature in my vagina. I would not have believed years ago.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: It's no different from Wandi, right?
You know Wandi. You see Wandi three times in a cycle, right? And so. All right, so those are your tips and tricks. So what's in your bag, right? What's in your. Your little kit?
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Oh, I wish I had gotten. You want me to go get my bag? Yes, let me go get it.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: So I don't typically always have a blanket in my bag, but just in case I have to go into a public restroom, always keep a clean blanket in there, because I just never know. Now, because I'm older, I have had to seek medical support to try to conceive. So I do have pregnant, which women who use IVF or IUI would be familiar with trigger shots. So I do have trigger shots.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Of course, I have my pre mom strips. I buy them by the case from Amazon. They're filled with. The strips are the ones that test your lh or your lewisitizing hormone, and the blue ones and then the pink ones are if you think you can feed your pregnancy test. So you will get both in a box, and it will tell you on the outside. Like this one says, 50 LH strips, 20 pregnancy tests. Okay.
Lots of urine cuffs, because although I suggest getting them from Amazon, you can also steal them every time you go to your primary care physician or your OB GYN. Just stick a couple extras in your purse. So, yeah, those are great. So that's why some of them have labels on them.
I also use digital LH testers, and these, I have multiple readers.
I would suggest that for anybody, because if you make a mistake with the digitals, you can only use it, like, once in a 24 hours period. So I have three readers in mind, but the insert that goes inside of them cannot be read outside of the reader. And that's really important because people always say, well, mine had two lines just like a regular strip does. They always have two lines because they're testing for multiple hormones. But I have a digital reader, which I always suggest go with the strip first and then the digital reader second.
I have Mucinex because it is great for cervical mucus. I take 2400 milligrams twice a day, cd ten through cd 16, and I produce so much cervical mucus, they are probably in there swimming and having a great time.
And then I always like a prenatal vitamin, even though it's not what you need for your lining. But I just like to take that extra even though that wasn't suggested from my re just because I always want some on hand. For once, I get that positive test so that I already have, you know, some things ready to go before my first visit.
Lots of boxes of strips because if you're testing right, you're testing three to four times a day.
[00:04:58] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: More meds. Because I used letrozole, which is also known as fermara, which is similar to Clomid.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: And these you get from your ob gyn?
[00:05:15] Speaker B: Yes. I actually ended up having to get them from an online doctor because once my ob gyn found out that I used a donor who would no longer work with me. But I'm like, look, dude, anybody will take my money. So these are actual soft disks and they're still in the container? Yeah, but these are soft disk. I actually have alcohol wipes just to sanitize my hands or, you know, whatever. Whatever setting I'm in. So I keep those in there.
[00:05:52] Speaker C: And.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Then a syringe just in case, you know, I'm in a situation and I don't have one. And couple of strips that have fallen out the box and a hotel that I like to use. When my donor came, I was like, oh, I really like this hotel. So I saved their business card. But that is my kit.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Elaine, let me see how big that bag is.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: I was walking around with it at the museum, but I made my baby.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: I got wine, I got cheese. I got slippers.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Everything is in that kit. I wonder if my daughter. He probably. He's never even asked me, I don't think. What is in that kit you are carrying around?
[00:06:31] Speaker C: I had no.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: After I had my son. I had actually advertised that I was going to do it for a Valentine's Day drawing, and then I checked it out because I was like, I want another baby.
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