Well, my ovaries have been subjected to two performance reviews in the last week. To review, I took 100mg of Clomid on days 3-7 this cycle. I went in for my first monitoring ultrasound on cycle day 10, and a follow-up on cycle day 13. This past Thursday was day 10 (and Sunday was day 13). Results of the performance review:
- On day 10, I had 1 follicle on each ovary that was larger than 10mm.
- RIGHTIE had a follicle at 12mm and LEFTIE had one at 10.8mm.
- On day 13, the follicle on the LEFT had dropped off. RIGHTIE had grown to 14mm
- My ovaries have scraped by this time, no pink slip.
I feel good about how things are going so far this cycle. I was hoping for more than one large follicle, but I’m fine with my body just doing what it’s supposed to do. I’m also very grateful that things seem to be moving along much quicker this cycle (probably thanks to increasing from 50mg to 100mg of Clomid). If you recall, I had ultrasounds on days 11, 14, and 17 last cycle with no change at all, and ended up having to pay for 6 ultrasounds (baseline, day 11, day 14, day 17, day 19, and day 21 I think). I scheduled a follow up for tomorrow morning (CD 15) to see how things went with rightie. I am hoping that the growth jumped quickly, the way it did last cycle (I went from 15mm to 21mm in 2 days), so that we can get things going and hopefully avoid another ultrasound. It would be magical to only have to pay for 4 this time around.
If that follicle is at least 18mm tomorrow, I will likely trigger with Ovidrel tomorrow night and go in for an IUI on Thursday morning. That timing would be excellent as I don’t work on Thursdays, so I could really relax after the IUI, and go to my regularly scheduled acupuncture appointment as well. I’m anxious to see how our new donor dude’s swimmers measure up. He is younger than our last guy so I’m hopeful that that means they are stronger. Does anyone else feel super creepy using a 19 year old’s swimmers?
In other news, Em and I got married one year ago. Our wedding anniversary was yesterday. I’m thinking about putting up another post with some pics in the next couple of days, but I’ll definitely password protect it. For all y’all using the WP Reader, I’ll put up a link in a regular post. If you want the password – shoot me an e-mail at:
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Yes, the fact that our sperm donor has an 11 year old sister creeps me out in a big way.
Happy Anniversary! Hope you have a nice celebration planned. 🙂
Yes! Right? It gives me the heebee jee bees.
And thanks :). We had a nice dinner out last night.
Omg I totally hear you on the donor. We ended up choosing one my age (35) who is married with a kid. I definitely felt creeped out (perfect description!) using a young donor!
Our first donor was a year or two older than me. I never even thought about it until we picked this guy. And I wasn’t really creeped out until after we made the big purchase, so no turning back now!
Yay! We’re almost on the same schedule it seems! So exciting! I hope things continue smoothly as they have! Good luck!
Thanks! Yeah I saw your post today. I hope we’re two week wait buddies!
Me too!! And I’m hoping for BFPs at the end!!!
Yeah. Ginger Jesus is a (college) kid. The thing that makes me okay with it more is that there’s already been a pregnancy reported. If there hadn’t been I’d probably feel a bit odd.
Well Ginger Jesus #2 (3?) also has pregnancies reported, so it does help that I don’t feel like I PERSONALLY am stealing his innocence or something … but still!!
Congrats on the anniversary and the good looking follicle!
Happy anniversary! Come on, ovaries! I’m rooting for you!
Thanks girl!! I’m SO excited for you, can’t wait to hear more.
Hope the cycle continues to go as planned for you. Happy anniversary too!
Thank you!
Happy Anniversary! Sounds like so far, so good! Hope this is the cycle!
Happy Anniversary! Also great news on everything. I am so glad you feel good about this IUI 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Happy Anniversary!! Good luck!!! Can’t wait to hear how this cycle goes!
Thanks!!
Happy Anniversary!
Scarlett was a single follicle, so she’s proof positive you don’t have to have a few. Actually, The Queen fully supports only having one follicle but that’s probably because she is quite literally bursting with babies. 😉
So glad to hear the extra dose may be helping to speed up the process. You’ll be wielding that needle like a bad-ass in no time at all! Fingers crossed for you guys!
(I have no idea how old our donors are. Should I know that? We just made sure they had previous pregnancies so we had some type of reliable proof they “worked”. It definitely weirds us out there are half siblings out there. I have no idea why. Sometimes this whole process is so crazy, huh? Either way, go donor sperm go!)
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