13 days to go!

The swimmers have been released and sent on their mission!

FIND THAT EGG!!

I wish I could say I had an ouchless day and everything went smoothly yesterday but I'd be lying. It hurt! Apparently, according the the 12 year old doc (of course she really wasn't but she certainly looked it. M said she probably wasn't even old enough to drink), my cervix was closed...more so than normal. ??? So needless to say, she had a bit of time getting the swimmers where they needed to be. It didn't really take a long time but it certainly wasn't comfortable and I had some major cramps afterwards. I woke up this morning feeling like I had been kicked in the gut. I keep telling myself that was because all those ripe follies decided to kick their eggs out all at once! HA! I guess we'll know in 13 days, huh?

Help me out and be honest. A closed cervix at insemination time isn't a good thing is it? I was too upset to ask Doogie Howser yesterday before we left.

I guess I should stop stressing. There's nothing I can do about it now.

Ouchless

Whew! That didn't hurt a bit!

I never thought I'd be glad to have a spare tire. :o)

All systems are set to GO!

Todays cd13 follicle scan showed 4 good ones on the right (12, 19, 19 and 21) and 1 on the left (17)! The doc likes to see them between 18-20, so right now we've got 3 good ones and a good chance of the 17 growing before insemination.

The doc up'd our 10% chance of twins (due to the clomid) to a 20% chance due to the fact that there were numerous follies there ready and waiting to do their thing. That's ok with me. One, two, whatever....as long as they are healthy.

So, I'll be poking myself in the belly...with a NEEDLE (ouch!)...tomorrow morning at 6 am and heading in for lucky try #6 at 3 pm on Wednesday (Dads 70th birthday).

I'm a tad bit nervous about this needle thing. It's a piece of cake...right? And what do you think about those follicle numbers? They sound ok to you?

Clean as a whistle!

Well those weren't exactly the words Dr. O said today about my uterus but that's what I got from the conversation with him. Everything looked fine so we are still on track!

And for the record...the hydrosonogram didn't hurt a bit. The speculum is never fun but it was over in less than 5 minutes.

Today is day 3 of 100mg clomid and so far (I hope I don't jinx myself) I haven't had any side effects. Well I've had a couple of weird dizzy spells but that's about it.

We go back on Monday for a follicle scan and then a day or so later for lucky IUI #6!

We're turning over a new leaf....

Starting a new chapter...

Taking a new path...

However you put it....we went to the doc and we have a new plan.

The clomid plan.

Step 1 - Start 100mg on Sunday...for 5 days. (It worked out well with today being CD1.)

Step 2 - Hydrosonogram on October 14. Having water shot in my uterus isn't exactly something I'm looking forward to but I guess it's gotta be done. They wanna check for polyps and make sure there wasn't any damage from the d&c.

Step 3 - Follicle scan on October 20. We'll finally get to see some follies! Hopefully some good ripe ones!

Step 4 - Trigger shot? I kinda forgot what the doc said about this....oopsy.

Step 5 - IUI #6 around October 22 (My dad's 70th birthday)

So there ya have it. Our plan.

And as they used to say on The A-Team, " I love it when a plan comes together!"

Happy October!

I had a really good "Poor me", "I suck", "Life sucks", "All we want is a baby", "I'm stressed out", "Why is this so hard", "I'm fat", "We're running out of money", "I can't deal with all this" post all ready to go but then it hit me!

It's October! One of my most favorite months of the year and no way was the first post of October going to be a crappy one. (I'll save that for a rainy day.)

October means fall, cooler weather, beautiful colored leaves, pumpkins, mums, candy corn (I prefer the candy pumpkins), fall festivals, State Fair, sweatshirts, and last but not least....HALLOWEEN!

I love halloween!

The fun has already started around here....