Bottom of the 5th

Well, we did what the doctor said and triggered on Thursday night for IUIs on Friday and Saturday mornings. In true "this cycle is doomed" fashion, I woke up on Friday morning feeling like I got hit by a bus - all over body aches, low-grade fever, sore joints, fatigue. I am feeling a little better now but I am of course concerned that the illness will be yet another thing that messes with this cycle's chances.

Our frozen donor, however, was a total superstar again. We got 20million total motile on Friday (62million/59% motile) and 19million total motile on Saturday (70million/54% motile)... so from the swimmer end the cycle was a good one. We used up our last two vials of this dude, though, so if this cycle doesn't work we need to choose someone else for our last IUI. I hoe it doesn't come to that because I've become quite attached to this dude's numbers and don't know if I can find another as good!

So now we sit and wait for the next two weeks while we overanalyze everything. I decided not to temp this cycle because I was always going ridiculously crazy over every little fluctuation in temperature... so I'm hoping by NOT temping I will be able to chill a little. We'll see how that goes.

We're hoping not to test before beta this time around. We've never done that. Ask me again in about 10 days. ;)