Houston, we have ovulation

This is my first cycle off of Clomid after three cycles on it and I wasn't really sure what to expect. Luckily, everything seems to be on track still. I ovulated yesterday morning, CD16, so a bit late but not too bad. I'm sure it was my body adjusting to no fertility drugs. Also, I must note that the reason I know I ovulated yesterday morning, specifically, was because of the pain. Wow! I can honestly say that it hurt as much as it did when I took Clomid. Again, I'm sure my body just re-adjusting but still. I wasn't really expecting it. I had some minor cramping the day or two leading up to yesterday and was sort of assuming that I was ovulating but that was nothing to what I felt from about 8am-11am yesterday. Also, I just felt kind of "off" and nauseaous yesterday.

The good news is that I think our timing was pretty good although maybe not great. It's so hard with low morph or male factor in general because the closer you can time sex to ovulation, the better your chances of conception since the spermies aren't all that great (in a nutshell). So we had sex Monday morning, I ovulated Tuesday morning, and then we had sex again late Tuesday night. For most people, this would great timing. For us, I keep thinking that we first had sex (approximately) 24 hours prior to ovulation and it may be a bit long for the sperm to survive. Then, we had sex (approximately) 13 hours after ovulation. It maybe be too late for my egg. Ya know? These are the completely insane thoughts that are going around in my head. I mean, seriously? No one should ever have to analyze details like this. It is ridiculous.

At least ovulation is behind me and I can stop stressing about timing like I do every month we TTC naturally. Then, next month we will attempt our third IUI and they'll monitor the timing so I don't have to.