Elusive

Three things have been eluding me lately. First, Ian's pearly whites. I have seen them many times, but I've had a hard time getting a picture of them. I remember the same thing happened with Nadia. Second, sleep has been very elusive for me. It's been nonexistant after 5am the past 12 days. Ian used to get up between 5:45-6:00am. That was early enough in my opinion. Now he's getting up between 4:45-5:00am (4:53 this morning for example).We've been putting him to bed later, but that's not helping. Letting him cry for up to an hour doesn't help; it only wakes Nadia up too early. We've been giving him Motrin before bed in case it's the teething that's causing the problem. I am open to any suggestions as I am very weary of getting up so early every morning! He's still usually only taking three 30-40 minute naps a day. His morning nap was 90 minutes long on Saturday (which meant I was able to take a much needed nap); he only had two naps that day, but most days he's still having three naps a day since he's sleeping so little at night (less than 10 hours) and his average nap is still only 30 minutes long.

The third thing which has seemed elusive has been my bloodwork results from last Wednesday morning. I left a message with the Gyn on Friday, but they didn't call me back. I called the lab back today, and they said the results had been faxed on Friday. I called the Gyn back, and they said they only received my E2 results. I called the lab again, and they told me both results (finally!) over the phone and said they'd fax the FSH to my Gyn. The results were good! My E2 was 21. It was 31.4 when I had my last ovarian reserve test (March 2009). It's usually between 25-75, and a low number is a good one at this stage in the cycle. My FSH was 5.2 in 2004, 6.5 eighteen months ago, and 7.3 last week. Anything under 9 is considered good. I obviously don't have as many eggs now as I did when I was 31 (when it was 5.2), but it means that even at the age of 38.5, I should still be easy to stimulate if we were to do ivf again. I was expecting this type of result, and since I'm not sure we'll be doing ivf again I'm not exactly jumping up and down for joy over the results. I am glad the suspense is over.