So my baseline was this morning. Everything looks just as it should be – my worries of a giant cyst were completely unfounded. I had more antral follicles than my first IVF (10 on the left, 8 on the right), which is good… but the U/S tech said that sometimes after the pill antral follicles can hide in there and be difficult to count, and that’s obviously what happened last cycle seeing how many eggs I actually grew. They’re not anticipating anything different this month. They did drop my starting dose down slightly to help prevent my estrogen from running off again and have a little bit steadier growth. That’s all. The nurse said to come back next Tuesday – if my doctor thinks that’s too long to wait she’ll call me.

Taking my blood only required one try today, and no hunting under my skin. That made me happy.