To IVF or Not to IVF

Out of respect to the doc we listened to the IVF coordinator, but were determined that we weren’t doing it. For September and Oct we tried on our Own. November we did Clomid again with the intent of having another IUI, but I over stimulated. There was a ridiculously large number of follies on either side. The cycle was cancelled.

In December we did Clomid again and went down to 25mg. I had two follies on my left (broken side) and one on the right. We proceeded with the IUI. This cycle was NOT successful.

Our decision to do the IVF was made before our final IUI in December. After our cancelled IUI in November, we made an appointment and spoke with the IVF coordinator again. The issue for me was a money thing. M kept telling me that “we will make more money.” I had started researching adoption but M just wasn’t there yet. He wanted to try IVF. So we scheduled it with an estimated retrieval date of February 1st.

This wasn’t any easy decision for us to make or a quick one. It was literally months from the first time we spoke with the IVF coordinator before we opted to take the IVF route. There was many discussions about money, time, pain, injections and moral issues. But ultimately, we felt like we needed to try all options available to us.

I had my office hysteroscopy. Everything looked great, no scaring, except for my c-section with L, no polyps, etc. M had his SA, great count after wash 46mil, 65% motility, great Halo results, but his morphology stinks. Only 3%. The RE recommended we do ICSI. Something we were not planning, but if we are doing this, then we just need to suck it up and do it. Right?