Daily Monitoring

Oh what fun! So at home every morning I am taking my prenatals and my antibiotic, then every night at home I am giving myself 3 injections in my belly.....this is the stimulation phase to have all my follicles with eggs in them grow in each of my ovaries.......they doctor needs to be sure all my blood levels are where they should be and that my follicles are growing and developing like they should, therefore I need to go into the doctors office every single morning at 6:45 for bloodwork and internal ultrasound......yowsa!!!! I was so scared I would look like a drug addict with track marks on my arm by the end of the week, but the nurses there are so kind and gentle and use a baby needle on me, ya! It was odd though, I do find the internal ultrasound uncomfortable, but not painful, however, as my follicles and ovaries were growing every single day more and more, I did find that it became more uncomfortable and less "roomy" for the internal probe, haha!  It was pretty cool seeing my follicles on the ultrasound machine each day and seeing how over night they grew bigger, I got emotional a few times but then realized I was being silly and that they were just eggs, not a baby.  On my last day of monitoring I asked them if I could have a picture of my follicles, they looked at me a bit odd but I told them that if I end up having a baby I would love to show them this picture one day to show them where they started (at least from Mommy's contribution of her egg).  The pictures above show my follicles.  I have 5 large follicles and 1 very large follicle on my right ovary and 6-8 large follicles on my left ovary.   The one picture is of our fatty follicle, the extra large one.....our little chumba wumba! The other ultrasound picture is of my left ovary with 6-8 follicles (little black areas). This ultrasound picture was very meaningful to me beacuse the doctor said after my surgery that my left ovary would never have produced an egg to get me pregnant because the diseases was "gnarling" the ovary. The technician said everything looks great and I am on the right track!