And the Two Week Wait begins

**Hint Hint**

If you don't have any plans tomorrow at 9:20am and Friday at 9:00am, maybe you can send out a little prayer and lots of baby dust! ;-)

God is good!

We're not quite there yet, but we had some major growth in the last few days!  We had a 14, 15, and two 16's!!  More tears were shed, but finally for joy!  Will wait for lab results this afternoon and hopefully get a date on the calendar before the weekend.

GOD IS GOOD!

Praying for a miracle

Yesterday we attended our church to be prayed for and anointed with oil, according to the Bible.

James 5:14-16

¹⁴ Are any of you sick? You should call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ Such a prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make you well. And if you have committed any sins, you will be forgiven.

¹⁶ Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

My visit with the doc today provided a little bit of optimism.  We still don't have any follicles that are ready to go, but there was some improvement.  One follicle was about 14mm.  What I'm hoping for next visit is that one or two will join in and grow between now and then.  Last cycle we only had one follicle and we learned that one is all it takes.  Unfortunately, it didn't hang on.  If we can get two or three in there, one of them may just stick around for a while.

My estrogen level jumped from 36 to 115, which is a great improvement over last week's 27 to 36.  Endometrium looks ready to go.  Two days till my next U/S. 

Please join us in praying for a miracle!

One little, two little, three little follicles

Went back for my ultrasound today hoping that my follicles had grown the expected 1-2mm per day since the last one.  I'll give you one guess...

So now there appear to be 5 potentially viable follicles in my right ovary and 2 in my left.  Not to say they are mature or the size we're hoping for.  They range from 8-11mm and we're shooting for 16mm+.  The nurse says not to worry, it's taking longer than normal, just like Cycle 1 did.  So I guess this is "normal" for me.

The potential risk is that the drugs will continue producing more follicles rather than, or in addition to, maturing the ones that are there.  While 3 or 4 follicles are okay, more than that creates a great risk for multiples.  While we would love to have two identicals running around, I'm not really prepared to be Quatromom (and Octomom is already taken).  ;-)  In that case, we may have to abort this cycle altogether and start again next month.

My estrogen level went from 27 to 36 since my last visit.  Still low, but good that it's rising.  Continuing injections through the weekend and we'll take another look on Monday.

Follicles

Saw the doc this morning for an ultrasound to check on my little follicle friends and see how they're doing.  I've been back on the Bravelle injections for about a week now.  Looks like we have several follicles in the left ovary, but only two that are growing, each of them not quite 12mm.  The right ovary has several as well, but not growing quite as fast.  The two biggest were a little over 9mm and 7mm.

We're going for 16mm and hoping for multiple mature follicles, or at least one in each ovary.  That way, whichever tube the little swimmers pick, they should at least have a fighting chance.

Continuing injections and back on Friday for a follow-up.  Hopes, prayers, and fingers crossed for some growth!