IUI Report
Don’t you love Rhapsody in Blue? I was listening to it on the way home from the IUI.
The procedure itself was no big deal; less invasive than a pap smear, really. The doc was right impressed with Brett’s sample. In fact, I believe that the word “stupendous” came up. I was so proud. No, really, it’s strange how these things work. Your doctor says, “Now *that* is a beautiful uterine lining!” And you can’t help but feel tickled. The doctor insert 58 million sperm making that the high for today at the clinic. I wish they had given us a ribbon or something so we could show Brett’s parents. We could hang it next to his half-marathon medals.
I asked the doctor about the 6% success rate and he said that I had to compare that to Mother Nature’s success rate, which after you’ve been trying for as long as we have is about 1 in 300, not exactly encouraging. Of course, you have to remember that statistics are tricky things. All sorts of stuff can happen to skew a stat, right? Well, that’s what I’m telling myself. I’m just going to have to take it easy for the next two weeks and remember that I’m feeling a bit fragile.
It would be poetic justice to get pregnant on this the Last Treatment Cycle but poetic justice is not one of the things that seems to affect statistics. If I was writing a novel, I would make the heroine get pregnant after she’s made some great emotional leap. You know, decided to stop now, decided to move on. Like in Mad About You where they had make-up sex after a marriage-shattering crisis and got pregnant even though all those infertility treatments in previous episodes didn’t work. Alas, life is not a sitcom (thank goodness, who would want to deal with all of those commercials?) so I can’t make plans based on appropriate endings.
Isn’t it silly the things that float an infertile womans boat? *G*. Definitely relax, and try not to let those stats throw you off.
I’m thinking about ya.
i actually have a theory that life IS like sitcoms. well, not like sitcoms exactly, but story-driven in the same way. i believe that it totally ups your odds to have it be the last treatment cycle. it’s like, in baseball, when a player’s best friend has just died and he goes out for the last out when his team is one run behind- there’s a pretty good chance he’ll hit a home run, but only when it gets to a full count, and provided the pitcher hasn’t told a sick kid that he’ll win the game for him. good luck, i’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
hi,I am 29 years old,my husband 43.we are traying for one year.no success of pregnancy.my husband has low morphology sperm but his acount’s sperm is normal also his motility.5 days ago we did a I.U.I.after that my phisysion told me if we have an intercores is good for higher rate of pregnancy.so we did it.I am not feeling any diffrenses.could you please teel me some advise and I can be with hope or not?please answer me.thank you so much