August 20th Dr. Appt

I went back to the doctor on Monday. It was day 15 of my cycle. I had taken my vitamins and Metphormin as always and I took a cycle of Chlomid twice a day for 5 days. So I went in for my ultrasound and possible insemination. When he did the sonogram, he first measured my endometrium and said it was thick and then he tried to find a follicle. For the first time since we started this, he was unable to get a good view of my ovaries. He kept looking for what seemed like forever. He never did get a good look at them on the sonogram so we did not know if I had already ovulated, if I had any follicles, one follicle, or multiple follicles.... I was a little worried and let down for a second but then he said that he was pretty positive from the thickness of my lining that I was ovulating this month and we would go ahead with the insemination. So the rest of the appointment went on as usual and I will again wait 2 weeks to see if a period or a positive pregnancy test awaits us. We should know something by September 3.

My husband will go back to the urologist on September 6 to see what his next step might be and hopefully he will get orders for some more testing and another semen analysis to check and see if all the supplements are helping in any way.

Another thing I wanted to mention was the fact that we are trying our best to save money and we are starting to raise money to continue this journey, whether it be continued fertility treatments, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), or adoption. We have lots of cost that are not covered by insurance and my husband's upcoming test are quite expensive as well. Our next steps with In Vitro or adoption are thousand of dollars (you should google it, its ridiculous). The first way I am doing this is buy selling Pampered Chef. All my commission is going into a special savings account earmarked just for this. If you could help by gathering orders, please contact me so that I may get you some catalogs. It adds up quickly. I have a sweet co-worker that made me $100 last month and already has made me $126 dollars so far this month and she also reaps the benefits of all the hostess benefits(lots of free stuff). I will let you know of different opportunities to help me out in the future as well. Thanks for reading and please keep praying!

IUI video

I have had a few people ask what or how IUI is done. It is short video explaining it. There could be better ones out there but this was the first one I watched so here you go.

Short 3D animation of Intra-Uterine Insemination

No baby news

I had received a few texts wanting an update last week. I guess I should post more but it is just a lot of waiting, especially after I have been inseminated. I will try to do better though.

Well, I do not have any good news to share this month. It was not successful. We will start another round of meds on Wednesday. I will be taking double the amount of Chlomid this month so I will be anxious to see what impact it will have on my follicle development. My next doctor appointment will fall on the weekend again so we will once again run the risk of ovulating and being unable to get inseminated this month. I have more hopes this time around though since I had not ovulated before I went last time. It may increase my risk for multiples so I bet my husband is secretly happy about it. He would love to go ahead and have two children and be done with this difficult process.

Short update on my husband: He has been on his concoction of supplements for a little more than a month and a half. I saw a friend last week that also goes to my doctor and her husband has similar issues as mine. She stated that they were mailing her some information on a supplement that may help her husband. I got a text from her last night stating it was Proxeed. It is a powder you mix in your drink. I think it was around $400 for a two month supply. We looked it up and checked the ingredients and it seemed that we had most all the ingredients covered in the supplements he is currently taking (I think we have spent less too.). We noticed that he is not taking CoQ10. We had been looking into its benefits already and that just confirmed to me that we may need to add one more pill to his already full pill box. So he has a new bottle on the table and they stink to high heaven! So, let me take a few minutes to be very thankful that he takes all this stuff willingly and regularly. I am lucky to have a husband that is all in and so supportive. I am very lucky to have a husband that has such a strong desire to be a father.