But I am not a beef cow….and other reasons not to rely on google.

We are back from Vermont and it was truly wonderful.    I love being home.   We went to the tractor paradeand if that will not make you fertile I don’t know what will.     It was really nice to be back in my small hometown, listening to a local bluegrass band and admiring the old and new tractors.      We also celebrated my mother’s birthday with a beautiful and delicious garden party that stretched out into the night with laughter and wine.  We came back on Sunday night battling the traffic coming back into the city and I was dreaming of Vermont on 95 south.   

All of that time in Vermont or the up dose of clomid had some crazy effect on my body.    Before we left on Thursday we went to the RE and I had a 19mm follicle.   Technically we could have done a trigger and some inseminations.   But I really did not want that, because I could not have missed my mom’s 65th.    So I did not do a trigger and just went up to Vermont with a ton of OPKs.    I did not surge over the weekend and when we went back to the RE on Monday (which was day 14) that follicle was 30mm.    I have NEVER had a follicle that large.    Dr. B said either we had missed ovulation or I was surging right then and we should do an insemination.     We decided to do an insemination and also to have a blood test done. All in all it took forever and we finally left the RE’s office at 11:30.   H. and I then took the day off of work, which was so nice and unexpected.   We worked on another baby quilt for our friend E who is expecting a girl later this summer.    But of course as soon as I got home I was googling about follicle size and why the hell mine was 30mm.    I did not find anything useful, and managed to quite scare myself because I guess at that point it is either a mega egg or cyst.    I am so scared that some weird cyst is going to come back or that a cycle will be called off because I have to get surgery again I was a bit shut down and just wanted to hear the results of the blood test.    H. was convinced it was ovulation and not a cyst, she had to remind me of my mucus, my open cervix and my sex drive on Sunday night.    She was right and the blood test confirmed it, I was surging on Monday morning.   Hopefully all of this will lead to good things.    I have not, since before my surgery, actually ovulated on my own but rather have been relying on trigger shots to ovulate.     And I have never had an egg this big before.    I am trying to think of this big egg as having more surface area for the sperm to attack it.      After my second insemination today I, of course not learning my lesson yesterday, googled follicle size and pregnancy rates.     There is a ton of information out there on this topic if you are interested in the follicle size of a beef cow.   Not being a beef cow I found nothing.  Do any of you have any human specific knowledge about follicle size – is 30mm too big or did my body just create a super-egg?    I am going just think to myself a bigger egg gives more surface area while drinking green tea, eating pineapple and googling what day I am supposed to eat that sandwich was MickieHorribleD’s.   It is now the two week wait.