Go, eggies, go, go!

Go, eggies, go go go!

I’ve now been on the stimulation medication for 10 days and have a scan in the morning to see how my ovaries/follicles/eggs are progressing. If all is looking good, then I’ll be booked in for my egg collection early next week… Eeeep, that’s soon!

Currently waving tiny, imaginary pom-poms at my womb.

It could help!

They scanned me on day 8 of stims and in all honesty, I don’t really know how it went! Sounds odd, doesn’t it? We were seen by a nurse that we’d not met before and let me tell you, she wasn’t one for the small talk. Or any sized talk, really!

She did the scan (rather more forcefully and painfully than any of the other nurses have so far) and said “Your ovaries are working. We’ll see you on Friday. You can go.”

That’s it?

I’ve tried not to obsessively read the internet during this process (hey, I said ‘tried’) but I definitely remember people discussing how many follicles could be seen on their scans, so wasn’t that something I should know? Honestly, I don’t know if its standard procedure to tell people numbers or just to say “yes it’s working” or “no it isn’t”, but as the anxiety-ridden mess that I am, I needed specifics.

I asked her how many follicles could be seen and she seemed genuinely surprised that I was asking, so she counted from the printed picture. Apparently I have 6 or 7 that she can see, and some smaller ones that ‘might’ respond as I continue stimulation until the next scan.

Still no indication whether this was a normal amount, but as far as I’m concerned it’s the quality of egg that matters, not the quantity, so my pom-pom waving at the moment is to encourage these eggs to be the healthiest, happiest little eggies that they can.

In all seriousness, having follicles grown to the correct size doesn’t necessarily mean that they contain an egg, so I could end up with 7 decent follicles and 7 eggs, or I could end up with 10 decent follicles and no eggs at all! There really is no way to tell at this point, so it’s just fingers crossed.

So to round off today’s post, I ask for your pom-pom waving and encouragement! Go eggies, go go go!

Eggies B. Goode