IUI #2 - CD13

I had my first monitoring appointment of this cycle and there was good news and bad. The good news is that I have 5 follicles - I have only ever had one on each side before. The bad news is that none of them are mature and he wants me to come back Friday (to be confirmed by blood work this afternoon). I am excited that there is a possibility of having more than one mature follicle to trigger but I am disappointed that they aren't ready yet. This week would be perfect for IUIs, I am in the office all week. Next week I will be at a client that is an hour away. It is going to be hard for me to come in late and it will be much more obvious. Plus, say my appointment is at 8 and we are done by 9, I wont get out to my client until 10. We work in small groups so that means that my staff would be there alone which is not ok. I can't make any plans until I know when the IUIs are going to be so I am going to try not to stress about it and hope that they are Saturday and Sunday, which also poses a problem. Saturday morning we have an appointment at the kitchen design center at 9am (we are getting a new kitchen!!!). We already rescheduled once, I want to get in there so we can start on the kitchen. I'll have to see if the REs office can do the IUI around noon instead of first thing in the morning. Again, something I can't worry about too much until I know what is going to happen. I hate not being able to plan things. It makes me seem inconsiderate when I cancel things at the last minute but it can't be helped.

I cant help but wonder if starting this cycle a day earlier than I should have is what pushed everything back. Now before you start screaming YES! let me explain. I dont remember if I posted about it already but I thought AF started last Wednesday night so I said Thursday was CD1 and set everything up. Thursday, there was no AF to be found but Friday she came back. So technically, Friday was probably CD1 but I didnt want to reschedule my appointments so I just left everything how it was setup and continued the cycle like Thurs was CD1. It seemed to work out since they decided to move my monitoring appointment to CD13 instead of 12 anyway. I took my clomid on CD4-8 as directed but it was actually 3-7. Plenty of people do that so I wasnt too concerned that I was going to mess anything up, plus I took it at night instead of in the morning so really it was only a half a day earlier than recommended. Are you following? I know this is a mess. So even though I am saying I am on CD13 today but really it is CD12, I would expect to have the same response that I would have on a normal CD12. Maybe I am over-reacting. Maybe this is my normal response and I just assumed that it would be like last cycle. Oh well, nothing I can do about it but wait until Friday to see what has changed. Grow follies, grow!

PS - B just called while I was writing this. The company he works for is based in Denmark and they want him to come over for a meeting that happens to be on Thanksgiving. He said he would only go if I could go. I would go in a heartbeat but if, by some miracle, I get pregnant this cycle, I would be due right around then so I wouldnt be able to go. If I got pregnant in the next few cycles I still wouldnt be able to go because I would be too far along to travel. I told him to go without me if that is the case but I guess he doesnt want to be over there for the holiday without me. He is going to talk to his boss about it to make sure that he could cancel if I ended up pregnant, but if he gets the ok then we are going to plan to go to Denmark in November! Yay!