PUPO!

The night before my successful IUI in August 2010, I had a lovely and relaxing massage.  I came home, relaxed on the couch, read, and went to bed early.  The next morning I did a fertility yoga DVD, had a leisurely breakfast and felt relaxed and rested walking in to my IUI.

Last night, I spent the evening wiping down the house with Clorox wipes because Nanny M has a stomach bug.  I then got things together for Finn today - luckily one of our neighbors knows Finn and takes care of a little boy his age every day, and was willing to keep Finn for me.  I've never had to pack a bag for him for the whole day, so figuring out food and everything else took a while.  It was close to 11:30 before I finally made it to bed.

My neighbor goes to get the little boy she watches at 7:20, and usually isn't home until 8:30.  I had to leave the house by 8 to make sure I wasn't late to my RE (again), so I had Finn ready at 7:20 and we loaded him into my neighbor's car and off they went.  Of course he cried, which made me cry. Once I'd gotten myself back together, I had time to do about 15 minutes of the yoga DVD, then had to get dressed and head out the door.

I did make it to the office 20 minutes early, so while I was definitely not relaxed and rested, I was not frazzled.

A new nurse (just finishing up her training) called me back, confirmed my identity, and confirmed that the specimen we were using today is one of the ones I saw flying in on their FexEx plane when they were delivered a few years ago.  I got undressed and on the table, and then she came back in with Jay, one of my favorite nurses, who gave me a big hug, and then told me the good news that the specimen had 20 million swimmers!  That's more than double what I had with my last cycle! The new nurse then got to work, preparing the specimen, then putting in the speculum.  I was informed that I had lots of great EWCM (I could have told her that) and then the catheter slipped right in and just like that I was PUPO.

Future baby in this tube?

Some of my optimism was restored by the great sperm count, and then again by the ease in which she got the catheter in.  My first two IUIs were fairly painful and they had a hard time getting the catheter in.  The second two were just like today, quick and painless.  I hope that means the timing was just perfect.

My lucky socks - post IUI

I had my IUI soundtrack already prepared, and they dimmed the lights and left me to relax with my legs and hips up for about 15 minutes as I visualized sperm swimming and then fertilizing an egg.  I'd just about drifted off to sleep when it was time to get up and head to work.

Three years ago today my friend Drea passed away.  It would be pretty damn amazing if I got pregnant this cycle - it would be so nice to have a happy memory associated with September 20.