1st IUI Procedure planned

The exam went well.. the Dr will have me take a low dose of fertility medication to increase the chances of conception. We will be scheduling the 1st IUI procedure for July (some time around the 3rd week). I will let you know how it goes.

1st appointment

My first appoitnment for the general exam with the Dr. is set for June 22nd.

Privacy

I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive in this long long journey to become parents. We have had many road blocks and many changes in paths, but some of you (you know who you are) have been so great and so supportive no matter what our decision has been.

Having said that, I am hoping everyone will understand and be just as supportive when I ask for a bit more privacy during this new journey. We will gladly share the special moments with you all, especially when this procedure works and we become pregnant, but we have decided to keep some of the more intimate details between us.

We do ask that you continue to check in. There may be less posting, but the important stuff will be here. It would be great if you could continue to come here for updates and news rather than it be the topic of all conversations!

Thank you again, for your support and understanding.

What the plan is....

I know some of you are anxiously waiting to hear all about how the appointment went today with the sperm bank. We didn't learn too much more than what I had already read about and researched, which was no surprise to me. Basically the break down of what our plan is, is that we now need to choose our donor, then we do the insemination when the "time" is right.

I need to make an appointment with our doctor and start all the wonderful testing to get ready for insemination. I am not quite sure if the insemination will happen in June or July, but it will happen very soon.

Statistics:
If a couple is actively trying to conceive, they have a 20% chance of conception for each attempt. With artificial insemination it is brought down to about a 9% chance. Therefore the Dr will put me on very mild fertility drugs just to increase the chances of conception when doing the IUI procedure. These drugs will increase our chances to about 14% each attempt. We were told to expect between 6-9 attempts. That means, 6-9 months of trying each month. Our bank account is hoping it works a lot sooner of course!
These fertility drugs do increase the chances of twins, but not to greatly, being that I will be taking such a low dose.

I'll let you know when the next step is taken!

We have our appointment rescheduled for Tuesday June 2nd at 3pm. I will update you all with the info we receive.

Appointment Rescheduled

The Dr was not able to make the appoinment today. There are three offices and apparently he was stuck at the San Diego office. I will call tomorrow to reschedule.

Next Appointment

We have our consultation appointment with the Sperm Bank on Wed the 20th at 4pm. This appointment will be to get acquainted with the sperm bank that we have chosen to use. They will explain to us how everything works and how we choose the donor. I'll let ya know how it goes!

Had the Consult

So we had our consultation today with the Infertility Dr. We both really liked him and felt very comfortable. The first thing he said to us as he walked in the room was... I bet you can't wait to hear that noise in your own room! He was referring to the babies heart monitor that was attached to the pregnant woman in the room next to us. Wow, what a neat sound that was.

So we have decided to move forward with the artificial insemination. It looks like at this point we need to choose a donor and make an appointment for the procedure. It could all happen within the next two months. We were told that when a couple is trying to conceive you have about a 20% chance of conception on each try. With the procedure we will be doing, we will have about a 14% chance each try. So it might take a couple of attempts, a couple of months of trying. Our fingers (and bank account) are crossed that it works on one of the first tries.

We are still waiting on our appeal date to go in front of the judge for the adoption. We still want our Foster Care license and we still want to adopt. If (WHEN) the procedure works, it will just put the adoption on the back burner for the time being.

Rescheduled

We had to reschedule our appointment for the consultaion. Well we cancelled the one we had and I need to call today to make a new appointment. So no news yet.

New News

Nope still no news from the County/ State on the appeal. We sent in the appeal request in February and are patiently waiting (that's me being sarcastic) for the state to get their heads out of their tooshes and issue a court date.

However in the mean time, we have decided to give Artificial insemination a try. We have an appointment with the Dr. for a consultation on May 11th to find out more details. I will update you as soon as I have more information.

Thanks again for all of your continuing support in our journey to become a family.