CD6

Oh what a day. I’m exhausted, for no apparent reason. I went to bed at 11 and got up at 6:30 but I’m still so tired. It’s just one of those days when you don’t want to be at work. Jeff got some upsetting news from work about possibly losing some of his commission percentages every month, which would really hurt us. It's frusterating for Jeff because he's worked his butt off to improve the company and their sales....but what can you do? We do well at saving his commission but without that I have no idea how we’d make it. The fertility costs every month are insane and we plan on me staying home. We had a nice chunk in savings, but fertility meds and procedures have drained that. We planned on building it back up before a baby came with the commission bonuses so I could stay home, and we would have some padding incase Jeff had a bad month. Ugh…Nothing is set in stone, so things could change but it just feels like one thing after another to discourage us. I hope and pray God will still guide us and support us, but some days I feel like he has forgotten we are hearing crying to him.

However, my ultrasound and blood work went well. The right ovary had about 4 follicles that were growing good-measuring between 7-9mm (they will get to about 15-20 before they release an egg). The left side actually had about 6 measuring 6-9mm, so they are growing well also. We really only need one or two mature eggs (measuring 15-20mm) when we trigger; we can’t have more than that or we’ll need to convert to IVF. Triggering with too many eggs could lead to me becoming an octomom, and we’re defiantly not ready for that! I’m still waiting to hear if we need to bump up the dose or not, but most likely we’ll stay at 75. Jeff couldn’t make it this time so I asked for pictures (see below) but Thursday he is coming.

Here are three pics from the ultrasound. The top two are my right ovary, just two different views. The big black dots are fluid filled sacs, which are my follicles. They hold the eggs which will be released when they become mature. (They eggs are way to tiny to see on the ultrasound). The bottom one is my left ovary, a good view of all my follicles!

Injection went well last night, no more bruising so that is good. No symptoms from the shots either-just sleepiness! More updates tomorrow….

Edit: Estrogen level was at 99