We've got an IUI #1 success story!
We'd been dealing w/ my husband's low #'s and not conceiving for a year and a half. We'd been told IVF w/ ICSI might be our best bet. We decided to try a few rounds of IUI first.
I was skeptical that it would work because (despite the 50 mg of clomid) we only had one mature follicle (according to day 12 us). It was a good size, but I'd read lots of dismal statistics for IUI success rates w/ just one egg.
The procedure itself was a piece of cake. Hubby went in early in the morning to provide his "sample" (ha--his favorite thing to do, or not
. We waited 2 hrs while it was prepped. Then I went in, and the whole thing took maybe 5 minutes. We did use the ovidrel trigger shot. Forgot to mention that up above.
Then, the lovely 2 week wait. As it was coming to an end, I was just SURE that it hadn't worked (I had myself pretty convinced that--if it worked, it was going to take at least several tries) because all of my symptoms were just like before my period comes. When I gave in to temptation and took an early test, I even managed to mostly convince myself that the very, very faint 2nd line I saw was probably the hcg that was still in my blood stream from the trigger shot.
But...it wasn't!!! We are now 12 1/2 weeks!!!! I was astonished at how lucky we got. Kinda like winning the lottery
. So it CAN happen!! Hope it does for you!
Do you remember your husbands post wash sperm count?
