IUI has been scheduled!

What a whirlwind! Every other day for over a week, I have found myself in stirrups, watching several follicles growing on my ovaries, and donating vials of blood to have my hormone levels tested. One appointment would result in bad news and the next appointment would be good news, followed by more bad news, more good news, etc. Today seemed to be the final defeat...several large follicles, but perhaps too many. Hormone levels needed to come down into normal range (they had skyrocketed between appointments last week). After the roller coaster, I had pretty much thrown in the towel.

However, this afternoon, I got my regular call with the results of my blood work and the verdict on what RE wanted to do next. To my shock, I was told that we were going to go ahead with the IUI. Follicles are sized well and we did 1/2 a trigger shot to hopefully prevent all from being released. We then will go in for our IUI tomorrow, rather than waiting until Wednesday and then be left to try to make a baby naturally every other day or so. Two weeks from now, we'll know whether or not it worked. Starting tomorrow, I have to get daily progesterone injections with the help of my darling husband.

Tomorrow the wait begins. I'll admit, I'm excited, but nervous at the same time. I am wondering if it will work. If it does, will we have more than one? When will we tell people? Who will we tell first? We have never gotten this far in our journey, so even if the outcome isn't what we are hoing for (i.e. pregnancy), we have already reached a milestone in our journey and now we know that this CAN work.