A booty load of follicles

I had my first monitoring ultrasound and blood work since being on Follistim on Friday. I had 20 follicles on my right ovary and over 30 on my left. Goodness gracious that's a lot...they were all pretty small though, none were over 11mm. I thought for sure they were going to tell me that we would have to cancel the cycle because I had so many (they will cancel a cycle if there are too many mature follicles because your risk of multiples goes up so drastically). But the RE decided that since they were all still pretty small and all about the same size to continue at the 50IU of Follistim. If we upped the dosage there is a risk that all of the follicles would grow and mature having to cancel the cycle, so even if it takes a little longer he wanted me to stay on the 50IU to see if we can get 1-3 of those follicles to break free from the pack and mature at a faster rate than the others! So we continued the Follistim 50IU on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (making 6 days on the Follistim so far, today is CD11) and I went back in for another ultrasound and blood work this AM. And happy news...there are 2-3 follicles on the right ovary that are getting bigger than the others! Yay! They are still kind of small (I think the biggest was 13mm) but at least a few are growing faster than the others! Now I am waiting to hear from the RE regarding more instructions...I think things are looking good though.

In personal news...OK, I guess news about my ovaries and follicles is pretty personal...but in non-infertility news...we had some friends in town this weekend and had so much fun with them! They came down from Nashville and we took their 2 1/2 year old to the beach for his first time! It was so much fun seeing his reactions! I am getting behind in my posting of pictures...I still need to put pictures up from the BBQ festival last weekend and now I need pics from the beach...but our computer crashed, booo (hard drive is bye-bye)...so that is my hold up. One day soon though I will get all of my pictures of our fun weekends up!