So, I had my appointment with Dr. C today. He is my Reproductive Endocrinologist and we decided to just jump back into it and get things started with the IUI process! He gave me three choices on where to begin. I can either do Clomid or Femara for one more cycle with timed intercourse (you just have sex when you are ovulating). Choice two was to do Femara with IUI or choice three, which was my choice, injectables with IUI.
When doing injectables with IUI, it is a whole lot of ultrasounds, monitoring, blood work, injections, and then we have the hubby (or sperm donor) provide the sperm and they wash the sperm and take the best sperm, put it in a catheter which is then inserted into your opening and injected into the uterine cavity. From there you hope and pray that your egg (which was hopefully released by the HCG trigger shot that you had to inject yourself three days prior to the IUI) will release and meet the sperm and make a beautiful baby for you and your spouse!
It's all about making sure you stimulate the right amount of eggs to the right size and then you trigger the HCG shot at the right time to release the egg and then IUI at the correct time so that the sperm will be there to meet up with the egg. If you overstimulate or under-stimulate then the cycle is cancelled. Over stimulation can cause multiples and that is a high risk that you do not want to take. Twins is great, Triplets are good as well, but more than that and the risk factors aren't something you want to worry about. You've tried so hard to make one baby and trying to carry that one baby to term is hard enough and when you risk your health and have to carry more than your body can handle, will harm you and the babies. Either way, every baby who is brought to us is a miracle and deserving to live a wonderful life. So whatever happens, I am ready to proceed in whichever direction I have to take. We have nothing but love to give and we can't wait to hopefully provide a brother or sister for Kaleb.
I will keep updating you guys on the process. Tomorrow will technically be day 1 in my cycle, so I will call the dr's office and they will bring me in for a baseline ultrasound or blood draw and we will go from there on what days to start injections and how many injections of what.
I'm so excited. I know I shouldn't be because the chances of this cycle not even happening or working are so high, but just a little sliver of hope makes me smile. Baby Dust to all whom are trying to conceive and I'm here for you if you need anything!
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