Please, please, please... let this be our time.

When after first you don't succeed, try, try, try and try again.  This is apparently my motto when it comes to makin' babies.  The wife and I decided to try one last round at California IVF since we have one more vial there and IF, for some awful reason, it doesn't take then we switch over to Kaiser during open enrollment and try there.

When I went in to see the doctor last Thursday, I asked her what can I do different?  Is there something I can eat, take, do????  I've been getting a good response from the Clomid, my lining has been perfect since I started the estrogen... so it must be my damn eggs.  I told her what is the next step, aggressive-wise?  She said injectibles, which are two grand a cycle, but since my FSH was high (13) that wasn't an option.  Shit, I rule it out as an option as soon as I heard the price.

So here I am, four days into my Clomid pills and one more day left.  Then on Tuesday I begin five days of estrogen.  And then a follicle check on Friday.  My guess is the IUI will be either Monday or Sunday depending on when I have to give myself the shot of hcG.

Please, please, please... let this be our time. 

Time Out

Well I put myself on a little time out this month.  I decided when Aunt Flo showed up on August 17, I would take at least a month off from trying.  I wanted to give my body and my wallet a rest.  As that evil time of the month draws near (I'm less than two weeks out), I wonder if it's time to get back into the game.  We've already agreed tht we would try California IVF one more time since I have one vial of ICI left there, and will switch insurance in October to Kaiser if it doesn't take (which I hope it does) and then try with them after the first of the year.  However, when I switch to Kaiser, I have to start buying IUI vials and not ICI; this equates to about $100 more per specimen.  However, they cover 50% of the treatments and appear to be more reasonably priced.  It's too bad, because I reallyl like the place I've been going to, but I'm not made of money.  So until I restart my journey, I'm taking a little time out.