All is quiet on the ovary front

Today we went to Dr. B’s office for a day 2 ultrasound and a blood work baseline.    She has moved to a different office which is now in a fancy pants neighborhood and if this cycle does not work then we are going to move to a different practice because her new practice does not accept insurance after the 15 of October.    It is a really nice office though.  

As I lay on the table I was struggling to not apologize for bleeding while the ultrasound was happening.   It is funny to me that in this process you lose so much basic privacy and then that I was feeling the need to apologize for it.   I am happy to report that I did not apologize at all, but externally seemed proud of my bleeding body.   So Dr. B pronounced that both ovaries were “quiet” – I had never heard her use this term.   I just love it.   I was laughing on the table and she explained that that meant there are no weird pulps or cysts.    I love my quiet ovaries today.

So quiet ovaries means that tonight, unless something surprising comes back from the blood work, we are going to start with the gonal-F.    Yikes.. .that is pretty crazy but I am happy to be doing it.     This seems like a pretty big gun, but Dr. B was concerned that clomid was not working for me because of my PCOS and gonal-F would be the next logical step.     I am happy that we made the decision to move on, and bit less happy about the increased possibility of twins.    I am impressed with how much monitoring will be done for this cycle and there was a discussion this morning of how we will call off this cycle if there are too many follicles.     We both will be very sad to leave Dr. B next month.   I hope we don’t have to go to another RE.     

I called the sperm bank yesterday after H. looked at the catalog and saw that you have to call them to order vials of our donor.   It was a bit of a panic moment.     They only have 19 vials left.    We will order our 2 later this week when we know when we will be doing the insemination.   He also does not have any IVF vials.    I guess we might be searching for a new donor if I don’t get pregnant this cycle, but I am hoping instead that I am pregnant in 4 weeks and we are doing a mad scrabble to find money to purchase a bunch of vials to work on baby #2.   Look at that not even pregnant with baby #1 and we are thinking of baby #2.   How silly this whole process is.   I will report back once we have used the gonal-F pen.   Yippee and Yikes.