@Mrsjerome, I hope your shower went well and those bibs are very cute!!! I think I am with Dare on the placenta thing, and dont want anything to do with it once baby is born, I agree it is pretty gross, but to each his own, whatever floats your boat and all of that jazz.
So I had my infertility appointment/IUI consultation this afternoon, after a crazy and stressful morning, rushing around to try to get DH to the dentist for his toothache, since his regular dentist was not in the office today, i had to find him another one that would see him as an emergency, and some other stressful stuff that happened today, which is another long story which i am not getting into right now, but he was able to get a medicated temporary filling to hold him over until he can get a root canal. So at least he isnt in pain anymore for the time being.
Ok, so back to my consultation, so the DR was very nice and wants DH to get another SA done to start out to see if his
numbers have improved since the first one since it has already been an entire year since the first one. I am hoping and praying his numbers have improved since the first one. I did have DH on the Fertilaid vitamins for a little while and the VR DR told us that his
numbers could improve on their own for up to 2 years after the VR, so I am praying and hoping they have!! The DR said she would hope for him to have at least 10 million
for the IUI in the best case scenario.... But our first SA was only 5 million, so I am feeling very nervous about how the next SA will be... If the numbers are too low than she may suggest IVF, which we cant afford without insurance and would have to look into changing insurance plans for next year to one that has infertility treatment coverage. The problem with that is some health insurance plans have it written in that they wont cover infertility treatments when someone has had a sterilzation procedure done, so I am worried that DH's vasectomy could make us unable to use the fertility benefits on health insurance plans. The DR, thought that possibly because DH had a reversal that it would null out him being steralized and we would be covered, but I am not so sure.
The other option is me using donor sperm and still doing IUI, as I previously stated DH says he is okay with using donor sperm if we have no other options available to us, but I am not sure if I can come to terms with it or not, I keep going over it in my head trying to figure out if I could be comfortable with using a strangers sperm or not, and not even knowing what the person looks like IRL, They just give you stats about the donors and if you are lucky they may share a baby picture, I have been looking into it online, I dont know if I could do it or not girls..
.I really would need to take the time to think about it, But at the same time I cant see myself at age 50 and never having a baby of my own either...Well hopefully DH's SA results will be good and I wont even have to consider this decision.
So as for me my testing will start as soon as my period starts next cycle, which will be in the beginning of Octoboer most likely. Between CD 2-4 I need to schedule a day for blood work to check my FSH levels, and than somewhere between CD 3-8 I have to have an ultrasound to check my ovarian reserve and see how many follicles I have, than sometime during CD 5-13 I have to have an HSG done where they put the dye into your follopian tubes and do X-rays to see if I have any blockages in my tubes...So I need to verify and double check with my health insurance but it should cover all of the pretesting since my insurance covers the diagnosis of infertility and not the treatment of it.... I am a little nervous about the iodine dye solution they use to do the HSG because my sister had a test done with iodine and after the test she became allergic to seafood and could no longer eat it. I think because seafood has iodine in it. My sister and I do have different fathers though so her allergies may of been inherited on her fathers side of the family, some of my other brothers and sisters have allergies to different things as well, although I dont, so who knows, but I am still nervous about the HSG, I also have to take antibiotics before I do the HSG...
So long story short My October cycle will at least get me some answers and an idea of what we will have to do next.... For some reason I am feeling down about all of this, i guess I am just worried that DH's SA is going to be too low and than I am going to have to consider the other options, IVF is pretty intense and costly and i am not sure if I am ready to take all of that on now, and the sperm donor thing, well as I previously stated would take me a long time to wrap my head around it and make a decision....
..prolly going to be adding to the collection after tomorrows shower but thought I would post some pics of the bibs everyone made for me at my last shower..
made this face 
..gave me this dirty look..and got up and stomped out of the room lol...locked himself in the guest room..and wouldnt let me in..I was dying laughing and beating on the door I just couldnt stop laughing lol..I was crying lol....
and let you know that you're in my thoughts. I hope the SA goes better than expected 
