Getting Serious

I have an appt with a R E June 15th. This cycle has reminded me that, with my history, my body can’t be trusted to behave when left to its own devices. I know that, to some, it may seem premature to take the medical route so quickly but I’d rather have more monitoring and guidance since each try is such an investment. At least if things go the way they did this cycle I will have somewhere to store the chromosomes if ovulation is late or nonexistant. I don’t know how this R E will be since I’m not married to a man/ I’ll just have to wait and see. He comes highly recommended and has worked closely with my acupuncturist on other patients. I hate that I have to wait so long for an appointment. There were two earlier appointments (it seems to me that he only sees new patients on Monday afternoons) but they were on days I was travelling for work. He’s the only doctor in the practice. I haven’t decided if that’s a good thing or a bad thing yet.

Once R’s health insurance kicks in she’s going to get an appointment too. We’ll going into this thing with both barrels loaded and hopefully one of us can get knocked up this year.

We’re Out

AF showed up this week. We’ve been so busy with the move I haven’t even been able to go online. Short post to say I highly suggest moving during a TWW. It makes the wait go very quickly and you’re so busy and stressed you don’t even think about it…

Out Before I Even Started

I sent the swimmers back today. The faint line on the OPKs all but disappeared last night, this morning, and this afternoon. I don’t know if I missed ovulation or what. I just couldn’t wait any longer to send them back or they wouldn’t have made it back alive. I plan to try next month (depending on how things go with R). If that doesn’t work I can’t try again until August. I’m traveling to CA the first and third weekend in June and the 2nd week in July so timing and scheduling around those trips will be a bitch.

I’m still waiting

I haven’t gotten a positive OPK or a high reading on my monitor but this evening I had gobs and gobs of EWCM. I’m going to take another OPK tonight and have R check my cerv1x when she gets home from work.

I hope to ovulate soon. If nothing happens by Monday I am going to send the vial back. I can’t wait much longer than that or the tank will be too warm to keep the swimmers frozen.

Her interview went really well and she should know something Monday.

Waiting…and calculating (edited)

We’re on each side of the wait. I’m still waiting for signs of an impending egg. I’m still low on the monitor and a very faint line on the OPKs. No temp rise so I haven’t missed anything. I have had such beautiful cycles (except my last cycle) since August and things have to get all screwed up now that there are 23 chromosomes in cold storage waiting to meet my little egg.

I think our timing was beautiful for R. Very positive OPK Monday afternoon, Monday evening insem, temp rise (judging by her average follicular phase temps from when she was charting) Tuesday morning and the line was gone on the OPK by Tuesday night.

We each told one friend what we’re up to this month. She told someone from work and I told one of our best friends from PA.  Everyone we’ve told (mostly the internets) thinks we’re crazy for even risking the chance of both of us getting pregnant. To set you all at ease and because I’m a big dork (have you forgotten this?) I calculated the probability that we both get pregnant this cycle. I combed through medical journals for some statistics. In the studies I read 76% of women with PC0S ovulated on a combination of Cl.0.mid and Met.f0.rmin, of those women 30% conceived (10% of those pregnancies were multiples), and 55% of those pregnancies resulted in live births.  So right there we’re looking at a 12% chance that I would get pregnant and carry to term. This study participants in this study were het.er0sexual married women having unprotected intercourse every 2-3 days. Taking ICI with frozen into account that 12% chance drops to 4-6% (10-15% conception rate as opposed to 30% conception rate).

R’s chances are better. She’s very healthy, doesn’t have PC0S, and has very regular cycles with glaringly obvious signs of ovulation. We know she ovulated. She has a 10-15% chance of conceiving on each cycle with frozen. Her miscarriage rate is only 25% (US national average). That means she has 7.5-11.25% chance of getting a baby out of this cycle.

Now the chance of both of us getting pregnant and staying pregnant long enough to get a baby out of it is about 0.3-0.7%. There’s a 0.03-0.07% chance that I’d have multiples and she’s have a singleton and 0.0003-0.0007% chance that we’d both have multiples. I’m ok with those odds.

I should really step away from MedLine and put my calculator down.

On another note, R has an interview for a FT position with my company’s parent company. It’s not in her field but everything in her field is part of a hiring freeze (state, county, & city government). It’s full time work with decent pay and affordable benefits. Right now she’s working part time and her monthly net pay is 1/3 of what I would pay each month to add her to my insurance. Wish her luck!

ETA (because someone asked) the chance that either of us would get and stay pregnant is 11.5-17.25%.

1 down 1 to go?

So we did it. 1 vial into R. She had the most positive OPK she’s ever had this evening so we went ahead and did an insem. The double TWW may kill us but here goes nothin’.

Yes, we are crazy

So I thought we were crazy for attempting an insem this month. Now it has gotten even crazier. My shipment arrived today and instead of 1 vial there were 2. My wife has suggested that she  use 1 vial and I use the other. The bank is willing to take it back but I can’t ship it back until I use the other vial. If I don’t drop an egg until later in the week there might not be enough time to get the vial back to the bank before the tank warms up.We don’t know what to do. My wife should also ovulate this week too so the timing would be perfect. Is this the craziest idea you’ve ever heard?

They’re so close

I checked my tracking number and the man in a can is sitting in a sort facility 18 miles away from my house and scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I’m excited! I have an acupuncture appointment tomorrow and hopefully will be trying by the end of the week. Just waiting for a sign that the eggs gonna drop. Wish me luck (if anyone out there is still reading).

The Plan is in Motion

The chromosomes are ordered. They will be arriving Monday. Tonight I will take my third dose of Cl 0 mid. I had a very good acu puncture session Monday and will have another next Monday. Hopefully all will go as planned and this time next week I’ll be sp3rmy.

We were planning on waiting until this summer to try but there was no way it would have been possible. I have a few upcoming trips for work and will be out of town every other week from Memorial Day until the middle of July. Timing around that schedule would be hell. I didn’t want to wait any later to try. If this cycle doesn’t work we won’t be trying again until the end of the summer. That is unless my cycles line up perfectly with when I will be home. All big ifs but at least I’m moving forward. I had always hoped to be a mother before I turned 30. That isn’t going to happen but maybe I can be pregnant before 30.