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I had an u/s and b/w this morning and it went well! First, without me even telling her about my increased mucus, when we were looking at my lining she pointed at an area and told me it was my cervical fluid that we were seeing! There has never been enough to see on screen before, so I was pretty much ecstatic. My lining measured about 6.9, which is the second thickest we've ever seen it. Follicle wise I have 3 in play - one is just over 18, one is about 16.5, and the other is 15. The next largest one is 11 and then I have 4 other smaller ones so we're not concerned really about any of those.

About 2 hours after we got home, she called me with my estradiol levels - 512!!!!!!!!! We are so very very happy with that. They want to see 200-300 per mature follicle, but keep in mind that all of them are releasing some. It means that I probably have 2 that are mature or very close to it. The highest my E2 has been before was 290. 512 is my new favorite number. :)

Dr. Shepard decided to scan me again tomorrow, and we'll trigger tomorrow night and IUI on Tuesday. This will give my lining some time to thicken and we might end up with 3 mature follicles. The only thing I worry about now is if I ovulate beforehand, so I think I'll bring that up tomorrow. I think that when they do the b/w they can check my LH and tell if I've already started to go. If that's the case then maybe we'll do the IUI on Monday.

Even if we don't end up pregnant everyone is so happy (Jason and I included) that we finally seem to be making some improvements. For the very first time my body seems to be doing what it's supposed to.