Welp, IUI #4 is now done and over. This procedure went exceptionally well. On the new med, I still only had 1 good egg follicle however it was a good one at 24.5mm. I think that is the biggest follicle we have had so far. Anyways, for the IUI, we had another new nurse and she was actually a nurse practitioner. Her name was Martha. She done things a little differently than anyone else ever has before. Before actually inserting the catheter in, she cleaned the cervix and after the procedure when she was actually pulling the catheter out, she explained something a little differently then also. With this IUI, we also had more sperm than we have ever had before also. We were shocked with this because with IUI #3, we had specifically asked for a specific vial to be used because we knew it was going to be our best vial. Well, this time, we also asked to use a specific vial because we want to use the ones with the best numbers and leave the worst for last. As I have said before, when the vial is thawed, it can kill off half, if not more than half of the motile sperm however this time, it did not kill anywhere near half. Actually compared to the paperwork that we have when the vial was actually froze, it only killed 0.8million. Anyways, this time we ended up with 12.6 million motile sperm. We were tickled to death with this because yet again, this meant that we only had to use 1 vial. We really thought we would end up having to use 2 vials this time. This time, the progressive motile sperm percentage was also higher than it had ever been before. There is also one more thing that Martha said that defiantly gave us some encouragement but I will post that under a TMI section in case someone doesn't want to hear about a gross aspect of female ovulation. After the procedure, I have to lay with my knees up and my hips tilted for 15 minutes. After EVERY procedure, Trent has increased the time on the timer so that we actually end up sitting for about 25 minutes. He just cracks me up.
Our donor has actually collected more vials for us and we still have atleast 4 vials left. We are still waiting to find out how many vials were collected from another day so really we actually have 5-6 vials. We had asked Martha about using 2 vials for each procedure from here on out since the doctor is only giving us 3 more tries until he moves on to IVF which we will not do because of expenses. Martha explained that at that point he would recommend moving to IVF however if we just said no absolutely not, we wanted to continue with IUI that she really thought he would agree to continue with IUI instead of giving up on us. That being said, we pray we don't need the 3 or more tries but we atleast have extra vials now if needed. If we do end up pregnant this time, this also gives us extra vials for a possible 2nd child in the future.
We will be testing on January 11th just a few days after Trent's birthday so hopefully Trent will have a wonderful birthday present.
WARNING: A LITTLE TMI TO COME SO IF YA DON'T WANT TO HEAR, SCROLL ON DOWN TO PICTURES.
Since Martha done things a little differently, when she cleaned the cervix before entering the catheter, she had said that there was actually some very good stretchy cervical mucous that she had cleaned away. She said as she was cleaning it away, it was actually coming out of the cervix at that point and time. Sperm can not live nor swim with out good cervical mucous so this made us feel VERY good to know that there was good cervical mucous there at that specific time. Chances are that there has always been good cervical mucous before however, no one has ever cleaned the cervix before and no one has ever mentioned the cervical mucous before. And maybe there was good before however maybe it wasn't just at the perfect timing as procedure. None the less, this defiantly made us very hopeful and it was very encouraging.
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| Right after IUI #4 |
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| Trent always adds more time to the timer |
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