Good Morning! :) We just got back from our appointment at ORM. I slept in a little this morning, so we made it to LabCorp around 8am for my blood test. It was a little bit longer wait to get my blood drawn - because there's only one person working on Saturday morning and there were other folks ahead of me. But it made our wait at ORM for a doctor a little shorter. We weren't in a rush - so no worries.
We had Dr. Schmidt for the ultrasound this morning - the same doctor I had on Monday. Lots of good stuff on the ultrasound screen. My lining is getting thicker - it's at 12 now and they want it to be at least 6. So he said there must be lots of estrogen doing its job! In checking the follicles, there were about 3 big ones on the left side measuring between 14-15. And the right side had 2 larger ones as well. The goal is to get them to a size of 18 at the time of ovulation. He said at this point, follicles grow about 2 per day - so I still need a couple days to let them grow before the insemination. As of now, the plan is for me to continue the nightly Gonal-F shots tonight and tomorrow. We started our 4th (and last) Gonal-F pen (of 300 mL) last night and used up 150, so technically there should only be 150 left. But he said it doesn't make sense to buy another pen at this point and said that pens typically have a little extra in them. He said we don't really need that much more Gonal-F, so we're supposed to try to do 112 tonight and 112 tomorrow. Then do the trigger shot on Monday night (the Novarel) and plan to have the insemination on Wednesday. So that's our plan - unless they call later today with any changes based on the result of my estrogen levels from the blood test. I really thought we'd be having it on Monday/Tuesday - but if the follicles need more time, that's fine. My husband said that "perfection takes time."
Happy Wedding Day to Brad & Sam! :) We're getting ready to head off to their wedding in a little bit. Looking forward to celebrating with them and their families.
My husband and I got married in 2005 and tried to start our family back in January 2008. We started our 1st round of in-vitro in December 2010 - which is when this blog was started. Despite a near perfect cycle, it resulted in a negative pregnancy test in February 2011. We were fortunate to get 6 extra embryos from that cycle that were frozen. In March 2011 we started a Frozen Embryo Transfer cycle. Despite another great cycle (on paper), all 6 of our frozen embryos had to be thawed to get 2 good ones for transfer - which failed to result in a pregnancy. In 2012, we took the first half of the year off and then tried a couple rounds of IUI with and without fertility shots - still no baby. In 2013, we did our 2nd round of in-vitro with my sister offering to be our gestational carrier. We ended up transferring 2 embryos into each of us and were blessed to welcome 4 babies in October 2013.