Estrogen Estrogen Estrogen!

I was so excited yesterday because I thought I'd be starting my injectible infertility drugs today. But, no. My estrogen level is too HIGH! They couldn't do the IUI's because the level was too low and now I'm too high? It's all relative. When I was too low, I was at 70-something and then 96, but they wanted to see it over 200. Now it's at 52 and they want to see it below 50 before I can start the injections.

Now I'm just frustrated and feeling like an imcompetent woman again. Tomorrow morning I will get more blood work and hopefully it'll be a go to start injections tomorrow night.

Oh no! Not again!

Yes, again! My estrogen level is still WAY too low to do IUI this month. The 150mg Clomid only brought it up to 96 (from 70-something last month). They want it to be over 200 but would give IUI a shot if it were at least 150. There is only 3% of the population that responds to 200mg Clomid when they didn't respong to 150mg. It's rather pointless to hope that I'm in that 3%, so we are moving on to the injectible fertility drugs. I have to go for an injectibles instruction/education appointment next Tuesday. The only issue I have with the injectibles at this point is that they increase the chance of multiples. I really don't want to be having a litter of babies.

I feel so inadequate and incompetant, so incomplete, so let down and wiped out every month that I'm not pregnant. Thus is the cost of having waited so long......

Here we go again

So, today is day 10 of this cycle. I finished the 150 mg of Clomid on Sunday and start taking the ovulation predictor kits tomorrow. Here comes the emotional roller coaster again!

Trick or Treat!

We had the BEST time with trick or treat last night! Stefanie, dressed as Yoda, enjoyed running up the sidewalk to the few houses we visited. Better than anything, she loved handing out the candy. One of her new 'words' is h'go - her word for here ya go. Some of the kids got 2 treats as Stefanie was feeling generous to certain characters. There was only one incidence of her trying to take candy out of somebody's goody bag. Even if there were no trick-or-treaters at the moment, she was handing candy out to the sidewalk, and the marigolds, and the porch step. What a blessing this little girl is to our family!