I've been Spotted!

I've started spotting - again! But this one looks much more positive than the spotting I saw on Friday. TMI, but this one has lasted each time I go to the bathroom. Yay! Hopefully that means full red flow tomorrow which means I can schedule my appointment and hopefully start Bravelle and grow those little eggies!

I'm supposed to have my appointment on Cycle Day 3 (CD3) - with CD1 being the first day with full red flow - and if tomorrow is CD1, that would mean CD3 would fall on Saturday when we're at my parents' house for Father's Day. Hmmm, not sure what to do about that one! If they can't wait until Monday, perhaps we'll have to go up Saturday morning after my appt?

Nothing.

Nope - still no period. Nothing since the once time spotting I had on Friday. Zilch. I can't start the next phase of IVF until I get my period. I know Lupron kind of delays things in that arena, but I was supposed to get it on Saturday - so start already! I called my RE to cancel the appointment I had for today and they said that if I still don't get it by Friday to call and I'll have an appointment on Monday regardless. So here's to hoping it shows on it's own and earlier.

The next phase in this whole process is where I start taking Bravelle with my Lupron. The Bravelle is injected to stimulate my ovaries to produce lots and lots of eggs. And I keep taking the Lupron so suppress any natural ovulation by my body until the eggs/follicles are big enough to be triggered to ovulate. And then once I do the trigger, they'll go in, retrieve all of the eggs, fertilize them with ICSI and then a few days later transfer a few fertilized ones back in.

So say it with me everyone - come on period - show your face! ;-)

I shot myself!

Today is Lupron day #7. DH is out of town this weekend for a friend's wedding and I'm here with kitty. He usually does my injections, but since he's out of town, it was all me. And I have to say, it was no problem at all - I did a good job! lol

I started spotting today, so that generally means I should be getting my period tomorrow, making tomorrow Cycle Day 1. So that means on Cycle Day 3 I need to go into the RE's office for an ultrasound to see if I am sufficiently suppressed - well, if my ovaries are anyway! ;-) And if they are, then I get to start Bravelle which will stimulate my ovaries to (hopefully!) produce lots and lots of eggs/follicles. While I'm Bravelle, I'll stay on Lupron to make sure my ovaries stay sufficiently suppressed so they don't ovulate on my own and we lose all the eggs I'll produce. I'll be monitored every 1-2 days to make sure they're growing ok and nothing is going wrong. And then once they're the right size (18mm+) they'll remove the eggs, fertilize them with DH's sperm through Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) - meaning they'll inject a single sperm directly into an egg to increase the odds of fertilization. Then, 3-5 days later, they'll put a couple fertilized embryos back in!

For a quick kitty update. As of yesterday and today, kitty can't keep anything down, so I called the vet and they made an appt. for tomorrow. Hopefully everything will be ok!