CD14 Results!

Sorry, I know I'm a day late with this but it's harder to get around to posting on weekends.  I went in yesterday (Saturday) for CD14 monitoring and here are the results:

Estrogen: 586 (up from 408 on CD13)
Leading Follicle: 23mm!!  (with two additional at 15mm and 16mm)

So, last night, I took my first trigger shot.  It wasn't as bad as I had expected.  A lot of people told me it burned, but it wasn't very bad at all.  I just made sure to take my time injecting it, and that seemed to help.  Anyway, I took it at 10pm, and my first IUI is scheduled for tomorrow (CD16) at 10am.  I'm excited and nervous and happy... a whole mix of emotions.  I can't believe that by tomorrow, we could have our baby!  This might be the longest two week wait, ever!!

The hubby and I decided to have a sort of a date day yesterday.  We spent the day at our favorite winery, followed by dinner, and some personal time together (if you catch my drift).  It was a great day.  Today, I woke up to tons of EWCM, a +OPK, and for the first time, a VERY obvious open, soft cervix.  Its crazy, I never thought things like this would make me so happy!

Anyway, there's the update.  IUI is tomorrow morning, yay!!  Everyone keep your fingers crossed!

Do It Yourself

I know the last thing in the world someone should do is start planning their baby's nursery before they are even pregnant, but who are we kidding, we ALL do it... Someone shared this link a while ago and I had all but forgotten about it until I was looking through my web favorites and found it again.  I've had lots of fun playing with it, so maybe you will too!

DYOBB - Design Your Own Baby Bedding

So Close... CD13 Update!

I got my CD13 results from this morning a little earlier than normal, which really makes my day because I was really antsy this morning.  And, the results are...

Estrogen = 405 (up from 270 on CD12)
Right Ovary = Two leading follicles, one at 16mm and one at 17mm (2mm improvement from CD12)
Left Ovary = One leading (still not quite mature) follicle at 14.5mm (1mm improvement from CD12)

So, even though I am not quite there yet, this is exciting news for me. Tonight, I'll take one more shot of Follistim (50IUs), and will be back tomorrow morning to check on the status.  The doctor seems confident that I will likely trigger tomorrow... which means our IUI will likely be on Sunday.  And worst case, if I am not ready by tomorrow, they are very confident that I will be ready before the end of the weekend.  Yay, yay, yay!!

This news has of course made my day.  I feel significantly better than I have all week, so that also helps.  Honestly the worst thing is that I feel so bloated!  I mean, its so bad that my pants hurt... or rather, they are hurting me.  I have never wanted to be in PJs so bad in my life.  It is going to be the first thing I do when I get home!

And the CD12 Results Are In...

...with no real change.  Shocking.  The offical results are:

Estrogen = 270
Right Ovary = Two leading follicles, both 15mm, i.e. one grew a little, one remained the same
Left Ovary = One leading follicle, 13.5mm, i.e. remained the same

So I'll be taking another 50IU injection of Follistim tonight and will be back bright and early tomorrow to see what my response is.... fingers crossed for some improvement over the night!

Follicle Size and Ovulation

After my monitoring this morning, I found myself really curious about to correlation between follicle size and the LH surge to initiate ovulation. Based on conversation with my doctor(s), they consider a follicle 15mm or more to be mature, and will trigger (with hCG injection) once the follicle reaches 20mm. My question was "When does the body alone "trigger" ovulation?" Basically, I was concerned that by waiting until the follicle was 20mm, I could potentially ovulate on my own and miss it... especially considering the fact that we are doing our first IUI this cycle.  

So, I Googled, and found this link... I thought the information was useful, especially at putting my mind at ease a little during this "waiting period".  I thought I would share in case anyone was interested!  Enjoy!

Ovulation After Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation