TTC baby number 2

We knew that we wanted our kids fairly close in age preferably between 1 ½ to 2 ½ years apart. Knowing that it might not be easy, we started trying for another baby 1 month before L’s first birthday. By her second birthday my OB was doing tests to try and determine why we were not getting pregnant. In the meantime he put me on Clomid. When all the tests resulted in no answers and no pregnancies, he sent us to see a fertility specialist. The Fertility Specialist looked at our tests and the fact that I had a healthy pregnancy that I carried to term and he felt we had “unexplained secondary infertility.” He felt we should try IUI’s with 100mg of Clomid. The IUI’s started in approximately Aug of 07. With a few cycles skipped here and there, one because I never really had a dark test line on the OPK and by the time they decided to bring me in and look it was too late; a couple others, just simply because I needed a break.

In early December we had had a total of 2 medicated IUI’s and 2 un-medicated. We planned on doing another one in December, but then discovered that we would be out of town for ovulation, so really we didn’t try in December. In January we did our third medicated IUI. I was done at that point. I thought I would do one more IUI, but if it didn’t work, I wasn’t willing to do anymore drugs or have any more tests. I had accepted that it might not work for us and if it didn’t I was OK with that. I didn’t want IVF, for a myriad of reasons. My body doesn’t react well to the clomid and the one Ovulation trigger shot I got, made me a complete and utter wreck. I didn’t want to put my body through anymore; especially when it was going to cost $10,000-$20,000 a try. Between the drugs and the stress of the financial aspect of it I felt that IVF was not the right decision for us. I was really truly OK with where we were and the strong possibility that we would never have another child.