Today I had what I hope will be my final ultrasound before the retrieval.  Lookin’ GOOD!!! Lefty the Troublesome Ovary is making a real comeback.  The nurse was able to see six follicles on that side @ 19 mm, 18.84 mm, 18.75 mm, 17.9 mm, 14mm, and 9 mm.  The right side continued to chug along with six follicles at 18.69 mm, 18.63 mm, 17.1mm, 16.5 mm, 12.5 mm, and 12.2 mm. Looks like we will get at the very least 9 mature eggs (Plus the other ones might catch up or they may be some more hiding somewhere)!  Happy!  This process has me constantly amazed at what our bodies and minds are capable of doing.  I feel so grateful that I live in a time where options such as IVF are available to me, and cannot imagine the heartache women faced 20-30 years ago when the answer to infertility was just “Sorry..There is nothing we can do”. 

Now, I wait for the word on what my doctor wants to do (3 pm phone call).  I, of course, hounded the nurse for her best guess.  She felt the doctor would instruct me to take the stimulants 1 more night to try to give the little guys one last chance to catch up.  I would then take my ovulation trigger on Saturday night and have the retrieval Monday morning!  Wow!  For however stressful this process has been, I feel like it has FLOWN by.  My husband, however, would adamantly disagree.  Last night he just kept repeating, “I am ready for this part to be over.  Whatever happens next, I am ready for this part to be over!” He has been a trooper though.  It must be such a nerve-racking experience for the guys too.  He knows he needs to give a good sample on retrieval day and he also knows that his best samples come from 3-4 days of abstaining.  But you can’t plan for that because each day is a “anybody’s guess” on what day the retrieval will actually be!  Since he is a guy that likes to plan and work in absolutes, these little unknowns are causing big time stress.  But, like I keep comforting him, we have a totally PERFECT sample on back-up in case the one that day is a bust.  And I mean PERFECT.  250,000 million, great morphology and motility, and very little DNA fragmentation.

We are getting so close!  Then it is on to phase 2!  Retrieval….or as my husband refers to it..The Harvest.  Sounds a little too Children of the Corn for me…..