Baseline Ultrasound

Today we went to Dr. Z's office for our baseline U/S. I thought he was going to recheck my antral follicles to make sure they were still there, but I guess that is not part of a baseline U/S, but more that they're looking for "quiet ovaries" and that my uterine lining is thin, as it should be at this part of the cycle.

They did two blood draws. One for a CBC and one for an estrogen test. Apparantly after I came off of the BCP's my estrogen should have dropped to less than 20. It did. Amazing. So I'm good to go on my lupron in the AM.

At the end, J and I had our injection training class with Nurse S. The tiny needles look easy enough, but it's those big honking progesterone ones that have me scared. My god. They are huge. And Nurse S said that if I do get pregnant, I'll have daily, yes DAILY, shots of progesterone until I'm through my TENTH week of pregnancy. I count that as 70 shots of progesterone, plus those that I take after ET. So At least 85 of them. I despise IM injections and I don't know how the hell I am going to get through that.

Programmed my new Timex Ironman watch to remind me to do my shots at 9AM and 9PM. Very nifty little thing if only it weren't so bulky and U-G-L-Y. I do wish they made these a little more feminine?