Exciting Countdown to March 24th !

Getting technical medical stuff out of the way, as I understand it:

• LH positive on Wednesday 1/20/10
• Progesterone 6.4 on Friday 1/22/10 (probable ovulation day & 2 days from LH peak 1/20)
• Eggs ripen over 48 hrs for fertilization and live 4-5 days
• Unfortunately, Lyric's ideal insemenation day probably during the weekend
• FedEx overnight shipment/delivery of semen from Tennessee doesn't happen on Sundays, so we'll have to be happy with a Friday and Saturday shipments
• Good quality/quantity chilled/shipped sperm live about 12 hours after instilled in the uterus
• Mr DJ's semen on arrival Saturday 85-90% moving ... Monday 75-80% moving after spending 2 days in route ... and that's good!
• That's why the planned surgical AI was on Saturday 1/23/10 and follow-up vaginal AI on Monday 1/25/10

As I type, the lil' fellas are traveling and searching for their own mature egg in the oviducts (connects overies to the uterus) and then those fertilized eggs make their way next week to burrow into their own special spot in the uterus wall to divide and grow ... and we're off!!!!

Sutter is really missing her playmate and while Lyric is on "mandatory" leash walk, she does "play bow" and "woofs" to try and engage Lyric in usual play time ... 1:1 playtime with Mom just isn't quite the same  but it will have to do ... BUT then there is always squirrel chasing !!!!!