Looking back and reading my last post makes me so angry. I wish I could go back to the end of April and slap myself upside the head for allowing myself to not only get so excited over something questionable, but also spending so much money on pee sticks for no reason.
Needless to say – I did not ovulate. My chart indicated CD14 was the day of ovulation based on my temperature curve at the time. After two weeks of temping and taking (I won’t even admit now many) pregnancy tests with no positive, but also no period showing up my chart decided to update and indicated that CD21 was a more likely day of ovulation. Ok, Whatever. I continued to hold out hope because our intercourse timing was pretty spot on. Then, all of the sudden, my chart updated yet again and decided CD31 was a more likely day of ovulation.
Are you kidding me?
Regardless, our timing was still fine. We have been trying a certain variation of the SMEP (sperm meets egg plan – google it), and attempting to get some sexing in every other day; which, if I can just say, is exhausting when you have such a long cycle and undetermined ovulation. WHEW!
Anyway, this morning I plugged my temperature in at 6:00am as I always do and since it was a touch below 98 degrees (97.88) there is no longer a recognizable pattern for ovulation at all. Which is weird to me since my coverline was generated at 96.76 or something. Either way, I am annoyed.
I’ve been listening to David Kreiner’s book “Journey to the Crib” on podcast the last few days, and this morning they happened to be reading the chapter on IUI (intra-uterine insemination) versus Micro-IVF. It got me thinking that rather than chopping down the Provera my OB/GYN prescribed and putting my body through another torturous round of Clomid it might make sense to just let my body do its thing while I wait for an appointment to get into a Reproductive Endocrinologist. I am very interested in the concept of Micro-IVF; especially since it decreases the risk of cancelled cycles and/or multiples and runs about the same cost as IUI with significantly higher success rates.
No final decisions at the moment, but the Hubs and I are going to have a sit down this weekend and I want to talk to him about where we go from here. As a family we decided years ago to live a very natural lifestyle so we both get really squeamish about all the medications that are being prescribed during this process. So, if we can do just 1 medicated cycle and have a 70% success rate with Micro-IVF versus who knows how many rounds of IUI and timed intercourse with only a 20% success rate – if not less – it just seems like a much more viable option.
Hopefully we can come to an agreement on a game plan as a family, and then work on getting it underway once we select an RE.
Thoughts and prayers would be appreciated. I’ve been dealing with a lot of depression the last couple weeks trying to handle a lot of stress at work, my husband and stepson both feeling poorly with allergies at home, and dealing with all of this at the same time. This is definitely a rough patch we are needing to work through.
Needless to say – I did not ovulate. My chart indicated CD14 was the day of ovulation based on my temperature curve at the time. After two weeks of temping and taking (I won’t even admit now many) pregnancy tests with no positive, but also no period showing up my chart decided to update and indicated that CD21 was a more likely day of ovulation. Ok, Whatever. I continued to hold out hope because our intercourse timing was pretty spot on. Then, all of the sudden, my chart updated yet again and decided CD31 was a more likely day of ovulation.
Are you kidding me?
Regardless, our timing was still fine. We have been trying a certain variation of the SMEP (sperm meets egg plan – google it), and attempting to get some sexing in every other day; which, if I can just say, is exhausting when you have such a long cycle and undetermined ovulation. WHEW!
Anyway, this morning I plugged my temperature in at 6:00am as I always do and since it was a touch below 98 degrees (97.88) there is no longer a recognizable pattern for ovulation at all. Which is weird to me since my coverline was generated at 96.76 or something. Either way, I am annoyed.
I’ve been listening to David Kreiner’s book “Journey to the Crib” on podcast the last few days, and this morning they happened to be reading the chapter on IUI (intra-uterine insemination) versus Micro-IVF. It got me thinking that rather than chopping down the Provera my OB/GYN prescribed and putting my body through another torturous round of Clomid it might make sense to just let my body do its thing while I wait for an appointment to get into a Reproductive Endocrinologist. I am very interested in the concept of Micro-IVF; especially since it decreases the risk of cancelled cycles and/or multiples and runs about the same cost as IUI with significantly higher success rates.
No final decisions at the moment, but the Hubs and I are going to have a sit down this weekend and I want to talk to him about where we go from here. As a family we decided years ago to live a very natural lifestyle so we both get really squeamish about all the medications that are being prescribed during this process. So, if we can do just 1 medicated cycle and have a 70% success rate with Micro-IVF versus who knows how many rounds of IUI and timed intercourse with only a 20% success rate – if not less – it just seems like a much more viable option.
Hopefully we can come to an agreement on a game plan as a family, and then work on getting it underway once we select an RE.
Thoughts and prayers would be appreciated. I’ve been dealing with a lot of depression the last couple weeks trying to handle a lot of stress at work, my husband and stepson both feeling poorly with allergies at home, and dealing with all of this at the same time. This is definitely a rough patch we are needing to work through.