After days of agonizing and having conversations about the possibilities of multiples and selective reduction we have made our final decision.... we decided to proceed with the ICI this cycle. After going to Acupuncture 3x a week, choking down 40+ pills per day, suffering through the effects of Clomid side effects, and going to the RE 3x a week was too much to just flush down the toilet at the finish line so we decided to sprint to the end! Lately I have been trying to live life by trusting my intuition and this one time that I am so happy that I went with my "gut". So today was a super long day, but it was so MAGICAL! I mean to start off the day was 09/10/11 how cool would that be to tell our child one day that was the day we inseminated! I had to make some serious decisions and adjustments to our schedules to make this insemination a reality. So today happens to be my longest workday that I have in a month, because it is essentially an 11hour day for me with driving and everything. I have to be in Everett (which is 40 miles north of Seattle) by 10am, DP had to be at work at 3, and the Andrology Lab where our spermies were being held was only open from 7am-10am. So we came to the conclusion that we could only inseminate before I went to work, but the problem was that we needed to inform the Andrology lab that we actually needed the sperm. I didn't get a positive OPK until after the office was closed yesterday so we had to tell them this morning. Well apparently they were on their own time because no one showed up at the office until 7:30 at that point I was stressing because we had a 9:00 appt with the Naturopath for the insemination and then I had less than 20 mins to get to Everett. Luckily I was able to get ahold of someone and I jetted to the clinic to pick up the vial at 8:30 they gave me the vial in a styrofoam cup, and all I could think was I bet this is the most expensive thing that has every been in a cupholder LOL!! My DP arrived at the same time as I did Naturopath's office and we waited for the Nauropath to arrive, while waiting I incubated the vial since it was not thawed yet, I also figured that being close to my heart would give them some incentive to want to stick around and fertilize! My naturopath didn't waste anytime getting down to the task at hand, she briefly explained what she was going to do again and then she had me undress from the waist down and hop on the table, which was great because I had dressed up from the waist up for the occasion LOL! Our Naturopath is great because she has wonderful energy and she explains everything that she was doing, so also allowed DP to help! Once she placed the speculum in she proud to announce that my cervix was nice and open and I had a nice "glaze" of egg-white cervical mucus! She asked me if I wanted to see & me being the science freak I am my answer was of course! Well someone had jacked her mirror so I was not going to be able to see it, and then DP had the wonderful idea that she could take a picture for me!! So I now have my wonderful cervix forever frozen in time in a picture! It is not an excellent picture because DP did not want to look LOL! So after that we got down to the insemination process. We inseminated at around 9:00am and after the insemination our Naturopath left us to our own "devices" *giggles* Hey they say an orgasm after insemination helps everything so why not? LOL! It was very akward to be trying to achieve an orgasm in a Dr.s office, but DP was up to the challenge and eventually it happened *blushing*. Afterwards we cleaned up, exchanged a quick kiss and headed our seperate ways back to work. The rest of my day was super hectic yet mellow all at the same time which was great. Mid-way through the day around 2:00) I started having some serious cramping and by early evening I was def in a lot of pain (Someone could have told me how awful Clomid Ovulation was LOL). I am so relieved that we insemmed before I went to work because when I got off at 7 it would have been too late, so it seems like the spermies were there in just enough time to meet the eggies which is even more exciting!! So we are now officially in the 2ww!! I will be at a conference in New York until next Sunday so I am hoping that allows me to keep my mind off everything so I don't have to stress about every twinge. Now I just need to figure out how to temp every morning without getting a lot of questions, since I am rooming with a colleague from work for the conference.
I will try to check in sometime during the week, but if not then I will see you guys next Sunday!!
In the meantime xxxxBABYDUSTxxxx to all that need it & MANY BLESSINGS!!!
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