{"id":419,"date":"2006-12-05T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=419"},"modified":"2006-12-05T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T00:23:02","slug":"first-iui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"First IUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling much better today. Still not unfettered excitement, but hopeful and not quite so freaked out. Everyone else seems to think that my situation is really good, so&#8230; who knows.<\/p>\n<p>We did go ahead with the IUI, we had it this morning. We reserved a private room for the &#8220;sample emission&#8221;, and poor hubby was all wigged out. He hid around the corner when I went up to the window to announce our arrival. LOL! Men are such <i>dorks<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So the numbers&#8230; after the wash we had 47 million total motile sperm. I didn&#8217;t catch the total sperm, but he had a very high percentage of motile sperm, giving us quite a good number!<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty quick and easy. Although it did give me a few flashbacks to the HSG when she was putting the catheter in &#8211; she said my cervix is a little twisty and very tight, making it a little more interesting. It wasn&#8217;t our usual RE, I&#8217;m not actually sure what her name was, I didn&#8217;t catch it. But she was <i>very<\/i> nice, chattered away at us the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>Although the funniest part was watching Den in the room while I had my IUI. I sat down on the table and he was seated on a chair off to the side. The RE said he could stay there or move up to the chair beside my head to hold my hand. I shrugged and said whatever was fine. So he <i>intended<\/i> to stay where he was, until I layed down and spread my legs in the stirrups, then Den realized he had <i>far<\/i> more of a view than he had bargained for and he made a run for the chair by my head. LOL!! He held my hand the entire time. Somehow I got the feeling I was comforting him more than him me.<\/p>\n<p>He is <i>so<\/i> hopeful and excited this month. I am not nearly as expectant as him. He keeps telling me not to worry and talking about how I could be pregnant right this second. He asked when I can test and got all excited when I told him the date (Dec 17 is what I&#8217;m telling him &#8211; that&#8217;s 12dpiui), he said it will be a wonderful christmas present. He&#8217;s very cute, but at the same time I worry how hard he&#8217;ll take it if this cycle doesn&#8217;t work out. I worry how hard <i>I&#8217;ll<\/i> take it, especially right before christmas. As if I really need more to fret about.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m just trying to focus on the numbers, on my organization, and just stop worrying about possibilities for the moment. I just need to keep my mind busy and I&#8217;ll be fine. 12 days to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling much better today. Still not unfettered excitement, but hopeful and not quite so freaked out. Everyone else seems to think that my situation is really good, so&#8230; who knows. We did go ahead with the IUI, we had it this morning. We reserved a private room for the &#8220;sample emission&#8221;, and poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,2,7],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-den-and-me","tag-doctors-appointments","tag-thoughts-and-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}