IUI #1

June 12, 2007

We had our first of two Intrauterine Inseminations (IUI) this morning. I got there just before 8:00 a.m. and dropped off the the semen. They told me I had about an hour if I wanted to go have breakfast somewhere or something. So I decided to go to McDonald’s and tried their new Cinnamon Melts […]

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Then Again Maybe We’ll Go with IUI

June 11, 2007

A little while ago I got a call telling me that we’d be going with “Plan A” and that I should trigger tonight at 9:00 p.m., with the ER scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday. I barely had time to digest that information when I received another call telling me that our RE had reviewed […]

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“Sitting Here in Limbo…”

June 11, 2007

I haven’t gotten “the call” yet and I am excited and anxious to find out which plan we are going with. Sean is taking a nice long nap and so I have had time to get some things done around the house and also wonder why the phone hasn’t rung yet. I started thinking about […]

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Monitoring #3

June 11, 2007

I did receive a voicemail on Friday afternoon that I did not need to return for monitoring until this morning (Monday), so Bob, Sean and I had a fun and relaxing weekend in Michigan and were able to stay until yesterday (Sunday) in the early afternoon, instead of having to come back early for monitoring […]

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Monitoring #2

June 8, 2007

I had my 2nd monitoring appointment this morning (day 5 of stimming). It went well. The regular nurses were at a conference today and the ultrasound tech had the day off, so I got my information a little differently than usual. The ultrasound tech was very nice and actually printed out the pictures to the […]

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Monitoring #1

June 6, 2007

My 1st monitoring appointment for this cycle, since I began the stimulation meds on Monday, was this morning and it went well. The tech found 12 follicles that were under 10mm, so in those cases they don’t report measurements for each follicle, only if there were any over 9-10mm. There will likely be some measurable […]

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