IUI # 2

My 2nd IUI is scheduled for this Saturday. I'm feeling both excited and apprehensive about it. It's so hard to try and refrain from getting my hopes up that it will work. At the same time I don't want my thinking to be too negative about it either. In life in general, I of course have good days and bad days, but most of the time I have a very positive outlook on my life. Infertility certainly does a good job of challenging my optimism. But I will just keep moving forward and doing my best to trust my doctor and follow all of his instructions.



I had my mid-cycle ultrasound Tuesday afternoon and my follicles weren't quite large enough for me to schedule the IUI. The largest follicle was 16mm and my doctor likes them to be about 20mm before they'll do the IUI. Since I still haven't gotten a positive OPK and now it's Thursday he wants me to take the HCG trigger shot this evening followed by the IUI Saturday morning. Hopefully by now my follicles have grown enough that one will produce an egg. The one negative is that we have family in town this weekend so we're using a frozen sample that my husband provided last week. The doctor said that freezing and thawing it is hard on the sperm so our numbers might be lower than ideal because of that. But it only takes one, right!?