Yesterday was the BIG DAY! I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited or nervous or scared or hopeful or curious, etc. A flood of emotions ran through me...especially when the dr. office was packed like Black Friday sales. lol OK...maybe that's an exaggeration. BUT there were a lot more people there than usual...
Before I get to what happened, I thought I would talk about what happened before...
So Hubby had to go in at 7:20am to provide his half of the baby making. He texted me when he was done saying it was actually really hard to do. Not because of what we were doing, but because it was NOT a lap of luxury he was going to. Up until now he did his part at home. So he didn't know what to expect. Well, let's just say that the accommodations and decor were not to his liking. If we have to do IUI again, he will most likely do his part at home.
Fine by me. :)
The plan was for me to come in at 9am so he left and I went. We actually passed each other on the way there and waved.
This is not normal baby making people. WE PASSED EACH OTHER WHILE DRIVING AND WAVED! Is that how I pictured conceiving a child? Ever? No....Not in a million years did I see that coming.
But it's how it has to be...so oh well. I guess we can laugh it off and move on. The end result is the key to keeping sane. Or at least keeping whatever sanity is left. lol
OK now it's 9am and I'm waiting with the population of any given Walmart to get inseminated. I think I actually told the check in lady Happy Insemination Day. I didn't say it too loud so she didn't reply.
Has it actually hit me yet? Somewhat. I have told several people about it...in what detail I could muster but the reality will be the positive pregnancy test I think. Or maybe not until I actually feel pregnant. We'll see.
Anyways...I'm waiting there wondering if I will be the next name or who is going to do the insemination....should I have shaved my legs sooner or moisturized? Why physical appearance would matter...I don't know. But it's something I think about. I also think about what I'm going to say on my blog. For the moment, all I could type was "Happy Insemination Day" because texting doesn't allow for long blog posts. :)
A nurse finally calls my name after I thought some guy's name was mine. Just a tad jumpy. She was nice. I think her name was Janet. lol She took me to a special part of the office where you can't wear any perfume or scented body lotion, etc, because it could harm the embryos. I know if it were my thousands of dollars and potential children in that room..I wouldn't want to take the risk either.
We arrive at a closet...err...a room for the IUI. She tells me to undress from the bottom down. (I hear this so much I've practically pulling down my pants when I walk in the door). :) She comes back after I drape the paper thin drape over myself. She shows me a test tube with hubby's stuff in it and double checks it is the right information. She also has me sign a paper that shows he had over 47 million before they "washed' it and then 11.5 million for the actual procedure. I actually asked out loud, "Is that enough?" She laughed and said it was actually about the limit to what my uterus can hold. So whew!
After my mom's paranoia about "what if you don't get the right sperm?" or "how do you know it's his?", this is a relief. I forgot to mention that they checked my ID to make sure I was who I say I am. That made me feel a bit better too.
So I lay there with the huge florescent light glaring down at me and she tells me what she's doing. The speculum is FREEZING like it was on a frickin' glacier before she put it in. But she was gentle and told me she was putting the syringe with the catheter (containing the 11.5 MILLION little dudes).
Then she was done.
I was like WHAT? ALREADY? lol It was seriously like getting a Pap Smear but instead of them checking your results later on...they insert millions of hopeful sperm.
Seriously painless, and easy. The nurse was nice which didn't hurt either. While I laid there trying to put together what just happened, she told me a few things I could/couldn't do.
1. No hot tubs or hot baths.
2. ONLY Tylenol from here on out.
3. Start taking the tampon full of goo tomorrow (Wed)....those were not her exact words. lol Every morning by the way. I still can't remember why I need it. haha
4. Keep taking my other meds and prenatal vitamins
5. I forget what else. lol
We celebrated with Chipotle for lunch....no surprise there. We were supposed to follow lunch with a dentist visit for hubby but that turned into an insurance crapola. Then we ended up at his old work forever to sort it out. Ironically we went to a DENTIST appointment together but not the IUI. The dentist thing wasn't really something we had to go together on but we had lunch before...so it was a convenience thing.
I couldn't help him with his part of the IUI and he couldn't help with me...so it was okay that it wasn't done together.
It's just not how baby making is really supposed to be. I joked with Janet that the IUI wasn't the "fun version" of baby making.
Now we wait until Sept 13 for my blood test to see if I got pregnant. Implantation wouldn't happen yet so it's not like I can predict ahead of time. It's my dad's birthday too...so I guess we shall see.
1 less day in the 2 week wait....how many more to go??? lol
Whether it will work or not...I have no idea. But I do have faith that if it didn't work this time, it will work a different time.
Our baby days will come...whether we're ready or not! :)
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