Off to the midwife appointment in a little bit and I have to say, I’m quite nervous. Nervous to meet new practitioners, nervous that I might not like them, nervous because the world of prenatal care is so vast and even with recommendations it seems like it’s pretty much a crapshoot. The practice we are [...]
One of the thing that frustrates me the most about the medicalization of conception is that every doctor does it differently. That is, ask three doctors how they handle a problem or how long frozen sperm lives in the uterus or whether temping is useful and you will get three different answers. I’m all for [...]
… I called the doctor yesterday to ask whether our timing was okay. I thought it was fine – right after and thirty hours after positive OPK… but yesterday FF was insistent that I had in fact O’d the day before the positive OPK… solid line certainty, not even a dotted line to give me [...]
… what is your IUI experience like? Not so much the step by step, but as you / after you inseminate, what goes on in that room? For us, outside of the actual IUI, we are basically hanging out with the doctor. In general he is in the room the whole time and I would [...]
IUI yesterday and today. Timing seems just about perfect but then again, I never ever seem to be able to trust the timing and my temperature charts look pretty ridiculous. I was pretty annoyed at the doctor yesterday, who first asked if we had tried last month ( uh, no, you put us on a [...]
CD 15, no +OPK, starting to go a little stir crazy. To be fair, over my nine month charting history (seven of which have included OPKs), it has only recently been the case that my OPKs turned on or before day 15. Over last spring and into the summer, they sometimes did not turn until [...]
After some “what if but yeah right” spotting yesterday, CD 1 officially began today. Which meant a trip to the RE for an ultrasound and plan making. We are going to do an HSG next week just to be sure everything is in working order and use this next month as a diagnostic month with [...]
Smiley face this morning, second IUI this afternoon. And with that, we are in it to win it for another two weeks. Appointment today was super relaxed as the doctor only had necessary appointments on the schedule. In fact, I was laughing so hard when we started the IUI that I was worried about everything [...]
… and it’s SO SUPER NEAT! If this was not such an expensive deal with such high stakes, it would be even cooler, but I am loving the monitoring and see my uterus and ovaries change over several days. And my doctor is finally catching on just how much I love it and is preemptively [...]
You may remember that, back in the early days of planning to ttc, I posted about the medicalization of conception (and a part two). Both posts focused on the anticipated experience of being all-too-knowledgeable about the ttc process and the (over)thinking that can happen when you are forced to plan conception instead of having the [...]
