Inter-uterine Insemination

The day is drawing near for our impending IUI. We went ahead and did half of the dose of Clomid, and I will finish that tomorrow. I will start OPKs Friday and most likely have an ultra sound to check the follicles on Monday. If there are less than 4 developed follicles, we will go ahead with the HCG injection and have the IUI on Tues or Wed! The closer it gets, the more excited I am, but also the more nervous I get. The risk of multiples is actually higher with IUI than it is with IVF. I am so torn about my feelings of multiples. I have prayed so long and so hard for a child, I feel if God gives me three then I should be thankful because I wanted to be pregnant. However, I really want this pregnancy to enhance and enrich our current family and if Mommy got pregnant with 3 or 4 I just don't feel that would be best for our kids. I know it is a risk that you take when you are dealing with fertility treatments. At this point, I guess it is a risk that we are willing to take.

Rich did have his repeat sperm analysis and the results are below:
January sample:
Motility (how fast/straight) 50%
Morf (how normal of shape) 77%
Count 45 million

Early November sample:
Motility 31%
Morf 79%
Count 8 million

Repeat sample two weeks later:
Motility 50%
Morf 80%
Count 18.4 million

She said that they consider 20million a normal sample so the IUI is a very good thing to do for the next step. She said that for the IUI they will do a s/a before they "spin out" the bad guys and then another one on the sperm after the "spin out". I'm relieved that things look better.

So I will post with details of the IUI as it gets closer! I just can't believe that we are doing this!!!!

Here is some FAQ about IUI... http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/iui.html