Oh gosh! I forgot to post the update on the IUI this morning! Yes, we had it done! Luckily everything worked out, for which I am very thankful.<\/p>\n
This morning I pulled out the instruction sheet from the bag and read it – it said call the lab by 8pm<\/i> the day before. Well I called at 7:35pm, so that took my anxiety level down about 3 notches. But the sheet also said to call a SECOND number to “register” with the hospital. Agghhh. So I called this morning while we were in the private room. LOL! Got myself all registered, no problems.<\/p>\n
So we got there at 7am, got the private room, I made the phone call, Den pulled a curtain back and told me not to look, then we dropped off the sample.<\/p>\n
Then we went to IHOP for breakfast. It was good! I’ve been wanting to go to IHOP forever, so I was happy to get to go finally. I had french crepes and scrambled eggs and bacon, Den ordered an omelette. It was the biggest omelette I have EVER seen… it was massive!! Den wasn’t even very hungry, so he was slightly dismayed. He only ate half.<\/p>\n
Went back to the hospital to sit and wait until 9am, picked up the washed sample, went in for the IUI. The numbers:
\n97 million total count
\n84% motility
\nWhich makes 81.5 million total motile<\/p>\n
It took her a little while to get the catheter in, said my cervix is curved, but I didn’t feel too much. Just felt weird. I was just laying there thinking, “This is such a strange way to conceive a child.” Yes, very weird. Well, okay, I felt a little bit of pressure down there that made me scrunch up my face. But Den held my hand and I focussed on relaxing and was fine.<\/p>\n
She said two weeks from today if my period hasn’t started I can come in for a bloodtest that would be pretty certain one way or the other. I don’t know if I will or not, might just stick with my pee sticks. She also said I don’t need a progesterone test this cycle, because they did it last cycle and my numbers were plenty high enough so they’re not concerned. Fine with me.<\/p>\n
So yay. On to the 2ww. I test at 12dpo on January 15th. Then test again at 14dpo on January 17th, the date they told me to, lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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