That is how today went! I don't think anything could have gone better if we had wanted it to. We arrived at the doc's office at 11:20 so they could start thawing the sperm. We were called back at about 10 minutes to 12:00. When we went back I caught sight of one of the nurses with an oven mitt on her hand and for some reason I just thought it was the funniest thing that she was walking around carrying the sperm in her oven mitted hand. She said to us "I'm just warming up your kids!" That sent us into more laughter. Not sure why that caught us so funny, but it did.
The IUI was absolutely perfect. We had the doc that we just absolutely love do it. Funny thing is, she did our first one back when we started this journey three years ago. I said to MJ this morning, "Maybe we've come full circle and this really is our time to be pregnant." My body was perfectly ready - plenty of mucus (sorry if TMI) - cervix WIDE open. Normally, the doctors have trouble getting the catheter in through my cervix. They have to dilate me, reposition my cervix, something painful. Well, not today - the catheter went right in - no cramping, nothing! On the way out, the nurse who had the oven mitt asked us if we wanted to look at the kids under the microscope. Of course we said, "YES!" I have to say, they looked awesome!
The even better news was that if this cycle doesn't work, they won't throw us out the door. The Doc told us that we would have to take a mandatory 3 month break - lose some weight and up my Met.formin dosage. Well, I can handle that - at least there is hope. But, we are going to think positively that we won't have to go down that road at all because we will be pregnant.
Tomorrow night we start our first of five foster parent training sessions. It will be a long day as we will not be home until 9:30 tomorrow night. It's all for good though! We definitely aren't putting all of our eggs in one basket!
Mom, Mama, Drew and Jack
the adventures of 2 boys and their moms
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wow - that all went swimmingly ( tee hee!) great news! I know what you mean about everything lining up - including cervix being open and EWM etc etc - it's a dream!
good luck for your BIG FP and hope the foster training goes well too!
sounds like great timing. good luck to you. Let us know how the foster parenting classes go.
woohoo! congrats on the perfect iui! here's hoping the 3 month break becomes a moot issue!
Crossing my fingers for you! I went to those classes when I was TTC and while the TTC didn't work out (not due to ME) I do have a beautiful daughter I adopted through the foster care system. I loved doing both at once, it made the "not so good" news of one aspect more manageable because I didn't have all my eggs in one basket either! Best of luck!
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