Baseline Ultrasound. 28 Follies!!!!

    Today we had our first ultrasound to monitor my ovaries for our IVF cycle.  My dr. said that on the screen my ovaries and follicles should resemble "swiss cheese."  Well, he said that I have some good swiss cheese! lol! My ovaries look to each have 14 follicles.  So thats 28 possible "future eggs."  The Dr. said that those are amazing numbers and that I am responding well to treatment. That most women would kill to have half of those numbers. :) I am just beaming with excitement. He was very pleased to see Joseph there as well. (Joseph goes to all of my fertility apointments.)  He gave us a nice little talk about how the husbands that come to 50% or more of their wives fertility appointments, tend to be better fathers.  Basically saying that they are more dedicated partners and in-turn more dedicated fathers.  Makes sense to me!  My estrogen levels also came back below 20, which is exactly where they want it. So because of that we get to move forward to our next level of treatment! So now all I have to do is wait for about 7pm and then I get to start my stimulation medications!!!  (Menopur, Gonal-F) I am pretty excited.  I have heard that the Menopur tends to sting/burn a bit.. so this should be interesting. We are just staying super positive and I think that by doing that, it is helping my body to respond in the same way. It's hard to believe that on the 22nd/23rd of July our baby should have been born.  It was during that same time that I started my IVF injections for this cycle. Kind of funny how that works isn't it?  I like to think of it as God saying.. "Hey, I know this might be a sad time for you.. but I promise there is something BEAUTIFUL getting ready to come out of this."  It's a one door closing and another one opening kinda thing.

This is basically the "swiss cheese" type thing that was shown to us. This isn't a picture of my follicles but it is a good example as to what I am talking about.