Thanksgiving mess up

We did the inseminations, and we messed up.  The cycle was going fine for a bit.  The OPK’s were darkening right on schedule, and we arranged to get two vials from the bank. Bank informed us that it was a busy week and they were out of the 7-day tanks. They only had 5-day tanks. We picked up our swimmers on Tuesday and expected Turtle to surge on Thursday. We figured we’d be okay with a 5-day tank.

But on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving the OPK got lighter even though Turtle hadn’t caught a positive yet.  Thinking that we might have missed the surge we went ahead and did an insemination Wednesday night.  Dr. Awesome had some difficulty getting through the second os, but Frog’s CM was great.

Frog kept testing and the OPK’s were getting lighter.  By Friday morning (day after Thanksgiving) I was afraid we were missing the opportunity to put in the second vial. We didn’t have the option to just hang onto the second vial for next time because the tank was only supposed to last to Sunday and we couldn’t find any liquid nitrogen on a holiday weekend.

We called Dr. Awesome.  We agreed with her that we should have her try to get through the os with the cannula. Based on how easy/hard it was to get through the os, we would decide whether or not to do the second insemination.

Getting through the os was super easy, CM was good, and so we did the second insemination.  We felt pretty decent about it until Frog got her surge on Saturday afternoon.  We both felt we just wasted a ton of money because we panicked.

So, we expect this cycle was a bust.

We’re continuing to think about when to stop trying with Frog and when to start trying with me. Our insurance will have a $500 deductible per person before any of our infertility coverage kicks in. We decided to have both of us meet with the RE and make a game plan.

My RE appointment was this week. My ultrasound looked fine—no sign of too few eggs for my age. I did have one fibroid, but the RE thinks it’s no big deal and it shouldn’t interfere with conception or pregnancy. Today is my CD2, so I’m getting ready to get my blood work done tomorrow or early Tuesday. In addition to the usual CD3 tests, I’m getting my thyroid checked. It was off a bit a year or so ago, but not enough to worry about as I wasn’t trying to get pregnant. But now, it’s possible I’ll need treatment for it.

The doctor also told me that I should lose 25 pounds.  She is concerned about me having twins since I will be starting with clom.id and next month I will be 37 years old.  Losing a little weight will decrease my chance of having issues when I’m pregnant and make it a little easier to be pregnant.  She also told me she was going to weigh me each time I come in to see that I am losing weight.  Talk about pressure!

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