exwdwcm
wishes she was Wendy Moira Angela Darling
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well for those of you blessed with children, you'll never know the struggle and heartache of infertility. Many others do know it though. It's been a long hard road and I know there are many others out there much worse off than me.
My mom and I joke that i guess she didn't have to worry about me being a pregnant teenager afterall! lol
So has anyone had successful experiences to share regarding IUI (artificial insemination)?
I am 32, DH is 34. We've been together 13 years, married for 5 of those. We are some of those DINKs that put off having kids until we graduated, got good jobs, got a nice house, did some selfish things we wanted to do. Now we are ready. We are happy with our decision to wait. We'll be able to provide for our kids like we want too and maybe even be able to stay home with them some (well I've been ready for a while, but was waiting on DH! lol). I've been off the pill for 5 years due to bad side effects it gave me. We didn't use any other methods of BC during that 5 years----we figured if it happened, it was meant to be. We weren't trying, but we weren't trying to avoid getting pregnant either. No 'accidents' in all of those 5 years. Not good.
So I go to see my OB/GYN about 1.5 years ago and tell her my history- we begin the tests from there----do the BBT charting and all that. Do ovulation home tests. We schedule our intimate moments....lol I take Clomid for 4 months and deal with horrible side effects. We do countless sonograms to check and I ovulate well. We do a die test to make sure my tubes are clear. DH does two semen analysis. I take progesterone.
We do it all. no luck after a year of all this. DH's analysis shows on the low side of swimming ability, but should still be able to get pregnant. We finally see a specialist a few weeks ago and he gives us some options- surgery for endometriosis (he is assuming I have it- we don't know for sure), artificial insem, or a test to see if the little swimmers are even getting through (i might be blocking them out! oh dear!), or $1k a month high hormone shots with 20% chance of twins or a final choice, in-vitro- which is very expensive- I hear in the tens of thousands of dollars range and high multiple risk.
so we went with the artificial insem. We might attempt it in about 2-3 weeks depending on scheduling. We might be out of town, at, well where else, Disney world, on our first alone vacation there ever. We are excited and nervous and don't know what to expect. So anyone have any encouragement or experiences to share? I am so meant to be a mom.....ask my DH, I mother him to death. I make his lunch, plate his dinner up for him etc. I pray that we are blessed and finally are able to get pregnant and stay pregnant!
My mom and I joke that i guess she didn't have to worry about me being a pregnant teenager afterall! lol
So has anyone had successful experiences to share regarding IUI (artificial insemination)?
I am 32, DH is 34. We've been together 13 years, married for 5 of those. We are some of those DINKs that put off having kids until we graduated, got good jobs, got a nice house, did some selfish things we wanted to do. Now we are ready. We are happy with our decision to wait. We'll be able to provide for our kids like we want too and maybe even be able to stay home with them some (well I've been ready for a while, but was waiting on DH! lol). I've been off the pill for 5 years due to bad side effects it gave me. We didn't use any other methods of BC during that 5 years----we figured if it happened, it was meant to be. We weren't trying, but we weren't trying to avoid getting pregnant either. No 'accidents' in all of those 5 years. Not good.
So I go to see my OB/GYN about 1.5 years ago and tell her my history- we begin the tests from there----do the BBT charting and all that. Do ovulation home tests. We schedule our intimate moments....lol I take Clomid for 4 months and deal with horrible side effects. We do countless sonograms to check and I ovulate well. We do a die test to make sure my tubes are clear. DH does two semen analysis. I take progesterone.
We do it all. no luck after a year of all this. DH's analysis shows on the low side of swimming ability, but should still be able to get pregnant. We finally see a specialist a few weeks ago and he gives us some options- surgery for endometriosis (he is assuming I have it- we don't know for sure), artificial insem, or a test to see if the little swimmers are even getting through (i might be blocking them out! oh dear!), or $1k a month high hormone shots with 20% chance of twins or a final choice, in-vitro- which is very expensive- I hear in the tens of thousands of dollars range and high multiple risk.
so we went with the artificial insem. We might attempt it in about 2-3 weeks depending on scheduling. We might be out of town, at, well where else, Disney world, on our first alone vacation there ever. We are excited and nervous and don't know what to expect. So anyone have any encouragement or experiences to share? I am so meant to be a mom.....ask my DH, I mother him to death. I make his lunch, plate his dinner up for him etc. I pray that we are blessed and finally are able to get pregnant and stay pregnant!
