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Monday, March 5, 2012

IUI #1

TODAY WE DID OUR 1ST IUI

LOW SPERM COUNT= NOT A GOOD DAY:(

I'LL WRITE MORE ABOUT IT ANOTHER TIME

Thursday, March 1, 2012

CD 12 Monitoring appointment




So today I went to my RE's for a monitoring ultrasound to make sure my follicles were growing like they should be, and I have good and bad news. The good news is on my left side I have a pretty good size one I think they said it was 14 mm, but the bad news is they didn't see too much in my right ovary so I'm kind of disappointed with that:( I really don't think Clomid helps me because last month when I wasn't using it I had about 10-15 follicles on my right side, a few medium sized ones on my left, and one really large one on the left it was about 18 mm. I should've done IUI last month:)

My lining is nice and thick which is just what they like to see so that makes me happy. They said they want to give my follicle in the left ovary a few more days to grow and see if we can't get a few of the other smaller ones a little more mature. This weekend should hopefully give them enough time to mature further. So here's the plan: HCG trigger shot on Sunday at 11:30 am, semen sample collection Monday at 10:00 am, and then the insemination at 11:30!

ow that it's all official and actually planned out I'm starting to get nervous. I'm not really nervous for the actual procedure itself but everything leading up to it, and then everything after it. My fertility clinic gave me a consent form for James and I to read through and then sign before we proceed with the IUI, and it mentions all the possibilities why this procedure might not work and then if it does all the possible complications. I was really excited leaving the doctors today thinking that if everything goes good and it works I could be pregnant next week, but then after reading the consent form it pretty much made all my excitement disappear. I know they do that so you have a realistic idea of your chances that it would work and they just want you to know all the complications that could arise, but it just made me think too much and now I'm scared.

I'm really trying not to get my hopes up because my doctor said our chance of it being a success is only 20 %, which for those of you who don't know that is the probability for any healthy couple with no fertility problems to conceive in any given month. If we don't do IUI they said our chances of conceiving on our own are about 2%. It definitely ups our chances but I'm still just thinking many healthy couples could take up to 6 months to conceive, so does that mean it could take that long for us? I sure hope not because we've already been struggling to get pregnant for 3 1/2 years and for me that's just way too long. I realize others have been at this for much longer than we have, but for me it feels like an eternity!

One last thing for those of you who have gone through infertility and conceived or those who are in the middle of trying right now, did you tell people right away when you found out you were pregnant or will you tell people right away, or are you worried about the possibility of miscarriage and/or complications and would like to wait for awhile before letting everyone know? The reason I ask is because we're trying to decide what to do about this. Let me explain: all my family knows that we're trying to get pregnant and they know about us doing IUI, and if they're smart enough they can count 14 days from when I do it and figure out when I should know if it worked or not but I don't want them to know either way.

The main reason is I have a sister who's been trying for 9 years, I'm 6 years younger than she is and I've been married for 5 1/2 years less than her, that isn't to say that this is any less hard on me but I just can't imagine trying for that long and then to find out your youngest sister is pregnant before you! Another reason is that my oldest sister was pregnant and everything was going just fine when she found out the baby had passed away when she was about 6 1/2 months along, I just remember what that did to my sister and it terrifies me. The last reason is that If it doesn't work I'd rather nobody but James and I know so we can just be sad together. I know these reasons are probably ridiculous, but that's why I'd like some advice from those of you who have been there and those who will be there soon!

By the way don't you just love the cartoon at the top, I was trying to find a good picture for this post when I found this and I thought it was pretty cute:)














Monday, February 27, 2012

Finally moving forward

I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything, I don't really have a good reason for that but I'll try to explain. So the last time I wrote anything I was saying how bummed we were with the results from James' semen analysis, and I also mentioned this new doctor we were going to go see. Well we got over the shock of his results and we did in fact see this new doctor and I could go on and on about her, but first I have to back up and start from the beginning.

So I called in December and made an appointment with this new doctor down in Pleasant Grove, I had heard really good things about this clinic and the doctors there were supposed to be amazing. My appt. was scheduled for February 1st and it felt like forever away to me but came surprisingly fast. I was a total wreck that morning because I was nervous about what we find out, if we'd like the doctor, and if we could afford what she would recommend us doing. The day started out bad when we got lost on our way to the appointment and ended up being late, but it turned out that they were running a little late so we were okay.

Our new doctor is Shawn Gurtcheff and she works at Utah Fertility Center in Pleasant Grove, and just let me say I can't stop raving about her she is absolutely amazing and probably the best doctor I've ever been to. She's so kindhearted, understanding, sympathetic, sweet, and every other good word you can think of to describe someone. She made us feel like she really cared about us personally although we were just one of many patient's she would have that day. She told us everything seemed fine with both of us and our best option would probably be to do IUI. I loved how she was so honest with us when she explained that it's a good option, but it probably wouldn't work the first time, and it may not work the second time, but hopefully third time's a charm! She prepared us for all the possible outcomes and told us how much money we'd probably be spending and all around was just an amazing doctor.

We decided to go ahead with IUI as soon as my next period started. Our protocol was going to be Clomid days 3-7, HCG shot to induce ovulation, and then Progesterone suppositories after the IUI procedure. We left that appointment feeling happy and anxious to get started on everything. I had never looked forward to my period starting, but since that was the beginning for all this I couldn't wait for it to arrive. It arrived a little early and so we got started right away with a baseline ultrasound and bloodwork on Day 3, the ultrasound was nothing and I should get my results from the bloodwork this Thursday when I go in for another monitoring ultrasound.

So that brings us to today, I finished my clomid a couple days ago now I have a monitoring ultrasound on Thursday, and then if everything looks good we'll go ahead with the IUI sometime next week. I waited for awhile to write about all this because I'm wondering if I'll end up jinxing myself because everything seems to be going so good. I realized though if I don't document our journey and if this IUI works I'll be sad to not have it all written down to someday look back on. I'll post with an update after my ultrasound this week.