IVF #2 underway!

It is official....we are in the midst of our IVF cycle!  Thursday's CD 3 b/w and u/s were fine so I started stims that evening.  Lining was good a 6ish and, best news of all, my FSH was 10.9!  I started DHEA about 6 weeks before this....so hopefully, that is a good sign!

We went for our first appointment at the new RE's office today.  Wowzers!  They have their shit together!  No waiting for a phone call from the nurse, we have an online patient account to login and see all of the lab and u/s results.  The staff were so nice and welcoming, even gave us tips for shopping and avoiding sales tax!  LOL 

E2 = 465 today (CD 7) a little high, but I'll take that over suppressed any day!  We go back Wednesday and Friday.  So far, so good! 

CD 1 (a little late)

Yeah, I started spotting late Monday afternoon and AF was in full force yesterday.  CD 1 *officially* yesterday, 12/7.  I go for CD 3 baselines (bloodwork and ultrasound) tomorrow morning!

Also, need opinions and thoughts, please!  I've been thinking about starting another blog and sharing it with our families.  There are a few posts I've wrote here in the past that might hurt someone's feelings.  I'm concerned about that. 

Has anyone else done this?  other ideas?  I don't want it to be more complicated (I'm already not a daily blogger :) but I think it might help shed light on the reality of what we are going through.

It figures...

AF should have been here yesterday....this morning, at the latest.  My body was telling me she was on her way....cramps off and on since Fri, feeling hot, achy, and b*itchy (sorry, babe!).  The TP had been stark white until about an hour ago....TMI:  it was a pinkish but not blood.

No HPTs in the house and I would have to drive 45 min roundtrip in snowy, treacherous weather.  I NEED to be working for the next 5 hours to keep on schedule for getting things done before we are supposed  to leave!  So DH is going to call after work and bring one home if the witch hasn't fully arrived by then.  Now, just to keep myself busy and stop obsessing!

It figures this would happen.  I have been stressed all kinds of crazy from work and just anxious about this cycle and all that it brings.  Just ready to get this show on the road!

1 week to go

About this time next Thursday evening, we will be arriving at our hotel in New York!  So excited to get this started!  Our first shipment of meds arrived today....it just makes it all more real!  2 questions:  does Menopur have to be refrigerated?  (couldn't find anything on the packaging)  and is it difficult to mix the Menopur?  DH is the official chemist and is now worried once he found out he will have to mix this like daily!  I just laughed and he said, "Glad someone can laugh about it.  It freaks me out!"  LOL  Love him!

Finally, good news!

After all of the drama at the beginning of the year with DH's varicocele surgery and recovery, we were very skeptical that anything good was to come from it.  Then, about the time he was to have an updated S/A, we had the roller coaster of the miscarriages and DH put it off indefinitely.  Finally, in prep for our cycle which starts next week, he went Wednesday for a S/A.  And today, we received GOOD news!

Count ~ 14 million (2x more than ever!)
Motility ~ 64% rapid, 9% slowly
Morphology ~ 0% perfect, 9% slightly abnormal

RE said the count and motility are definite improvements.  The morphology remains unchanged but with IVF it doesn't matter.  They will take the best looking sperm anyways!  We are elated and this is wonderful news to get this cycle started!  Less than 1 week!  Eeeeek!