No such luck

IUI number 3 didn't work out for us. My body waited till the last minute you know just when I'm getting my hopes up, it took 18 days after the procedure before my cycle ended. I called the Dr office tuesday morning and learned my Dr was going to be on vacation until August 31st. WOW! Well my body does nothing when it's not medicated so I have a RX for provera waiting on me. I will start that on August 14th so this way I will be starting a new cycle just as he is getting back in town.
I called my insurance and was discussing my coverages with them and I actually have 4 IVF attempts, I thought it was 4 attempts period. Good news is we have not used any of those but all my Dr appointments and IUI's come out of our 20,000.00. By the time my claims go through for our third IUI we should have around 16,000.00 left. I would love to try an inject and IUI cycle before the IVF and I think I will try acupuncture too, if I can make myself relax for that. Like my infertility book said wipe the slate clean each cycle. I'm a wipin until August 31st! :)

IUI #3 done and we wait....

We had our IUI Friday am at about 9. Dr said it was an excellent sample with good motility. It was painless just like the last one. I was thrilled, as I forgot to take Tylenol before we went. While I was laying down in the room on my right side to try to persuade them to go that way, Jonathan was so sweet just rubbing my side. Made me feel great and like he was really there for me.

Jonathan had to go to work after the procedure and I went home. I was fine until 11:30 ish when everything started cramping up on my right side. I believe that was the 22mm egg being released, 2 1/2 hours after the IUI. I sure hope our timing is good. I sent a distracting text to my hubby advising of the "reinforcement plans" I had made for him when he got home from work. I figure the more little guys up there the better. The Dr said to wait 14 days and take a test if it's positive give him a call! I sure hope I get to make that call this time!

3rd times a charm!

IUI #3 is all set for Friday at 8:30am. I was shocked when I got the size of the follie on the right side the he was watching. Last friday it was 13mm, monday it was 14 1/2mm and this morning it is now 22mm. That's awesome he said everything looks great! I just gave myself the HCG shot to trigger ovulation in 36 hours. I can definitely feel something going on in there, I've been cramping and bloated since yesterday! I hope and pray things go well Friday! I feel really good about this and I hope that's our litte one just waiting for it's perfect match to make a perfect little Stone! :)

Ok so IUI #2- BUST

18 DPO on June 5th and no AF, I was leaving to go out of town in two days and so I decided to call the dr. He prescribed me provera to bring on a period. 2 things came to mind. One, alright I have to take it for 10 days then wait 5 so I'll be in town for the beginning of the next cycle. Then my second thought that came to mind was ah crap what if I get Af while I'm in NY. So I took my first pill friday night and went to bed woke up saturday morning and low and behold here she is. At this time I thought to myself oh that's just great CD 3 and I'll be in NY. I could not call the dr office until Monday, he said he can not have the rx faxed to NY but he was ok with me starting Clomid on CD7 when I got back in town. I thought that was kind of different to take clomid CD 7-11 but it's worth a shot. We are now scheduled for our mid cycle ultra sound this friday. So this might be it our last IUI, good ol #3 before doing IVF. I pray so hard this works and we don't have to go onto IVF. I keep repeating to myself third time WILL be a charm! :)

10 DPO and.....

I'm justa waiting. I'm suppose to wait until June 1st. I don't think I can do that. I'm still on progesterone and haven't felt a thing. Normally by now, if not since ovulation my boobs are sore this time they aren't. Not sure if that's b/c of the progesterone or what but considering this is the only time I've taken the progesterone and the only time they haven't hurt it could be. Of course I say that now, watch in 2 or 3 days they will be hurting.

On another note, Jonathan and I took our dog Bailey camping this past weekend that was fun. It was Jonathan's first time camping, yes he's 24 and has not been camping before.. ha ha The river and mountains were beautiful.

I read a great scripture tonight that made me think about things.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

IUI #2 Done :)

This morning was our second IUI, we had to be fit in because he was already booked for the morning. We got there and waited patiently. I was anticipating a lot of pain like last time so I took some tylenol before we left. The sample was taken around 8:15am-ish, we got to the dr office before 9. Sitting in the procedure room waiting I ask what time it is and it's already 9:20am. We were feeling rushed because I have always heard no more than an hour for the sample to still be good. He comes in and his nurse flips on the really bright light and the bulb blew, she had to get another bulb and this is when the dr looks at us and goes, "so how was your weekend?" Caught us both off guard but made us giggle, and he told us how he went to see Star Wars so him and my hubby chatted about that for a second. I was amazed this time at the fact that it did not hurt at all, nothing like last time. He explained the progesterone again and wants us to start that on Wednesday and then we wait 14 days and the 14th day happens to be my Mom's birthday. I holding out hope that will give us some luck! So in the meantime I will try to not dwell on the fact and eat some pineapple for implantation and just enjoy my life. :)

IUI attempt #2 is a go!

So this past cycle started April 30th, I took 200mg of Clomid May 2-6. I went for our mid cycle check up on May 13th we had one follie on my left side measuring 17x14mm. The Dr. said he would like to see that follie a little bigger and wants me to come back on Friday. He said we have a 10% chance of ovulating before then. I didn't have high hopes for the follie because last time he said that we had to cancel our IUI because it did not grow anymore. This morning Jonathan went with me and low and behold it had increased to 20x17mm. We were thrilled and will be doing the shot of Ovidrel on Saturday night and we are scheduled to come back Monday morning at 9am for the procedure.
He wants me to start the endometrin either tuesday or wednesday he wants to think about it and will let me know Monday. I'm excited this one is the biggest I have had and I pray that we will get lucky this time. I have my grapefruit juice ready to drink as I have heard that helps with implantation.
I have also taken the time to sit down and look at how much money we have spent. We truly are blessed with good insurance this year alone they have paid more than $1700.00 and we have paid out of pocket so far since January of 08 more than $1000.00. Last year our insurance paid $1000.00 for me to have the HSG that's almost $4000.00 together with our insurance that has been paid so far. That's crazy! I sure hope this works this time!! :)