Sunday, November 4, 2007

Keep 'em comin'

The ultrasound this morning found four more follicles lining up with the rest. I still only have three on my lazy right ovary, but my left is just producing them by leaps and bounds. I now have nine on my left ovary with four more waiting and three on my right with three more waiting. So, the number right now is 12, with seven more possible. It's funny, but I had set myself a goal of 12 and that's right where we're at. As if my 'goal' really has any bearing on what my ovaries are doing. Still, it makes me feel a little better that the numbers are growing and that I wasn't completely crazy with the lofty goal of at least 12 to harvest. I'm still nervous about the fact that my right ovary is being so lazy, and the fact that my estrogen seems to be staying low, but I have to just take one day at a time right now and hope for the best outcome possible: a baby.

As for timing, right now I'm at the beck and call of the ovaries and their follicle friends. The RE was hoping to do the harvest (AKA egg retrieval) on Wednesday, November 7 but I'm not sure when it'll happen since my ovaries seem to be taking their sweet time. Here's how it plays out: they want the follicles to be around 20mm before they will harvest the eggs. Follicles grow between 1mm and 2mm per day and the biggest one I have right now is about a 14 or so. So, that would give me at least three more days (2mm per day for three days to get to 20mm total), but since the largest is 14, they may wait a little longer to wait to see when the others will catch up. So, at the very least I have three more days before the retrieval, but it'll probably be more like five days.

Did I mention that I'm so bloated that I have to walk around the house with my pants unbuttoned? Fun, fun, fun!

2 comments:

Jeannie said...

Woohoo for four more follicles! That's awesome! Grow, follicles, grow!! :)

Perhaps the bloat that you are having is just getting you ready for the early pregnancy bloat. ;)

How is E doing? Does he know that Mommy and Daddy are trying to make a baby?

hms said...

No, he has no idea that we're attempting to creat a sibling for him. He's not happy that Momma can't pick him up right now and he does notice that I wince whenever he tries to pounce on my belly right now. But happily, he's still clueless as to why.

And forget about the early pregnancy bloat... I'm already waddling like I'm six months along. Whoo-boy.