Prepping For The Next IUI Cycle

I might have had a few hard days after my first IUI ended up with a Big Fat Negative! Sure I cried like a baby, yelled out a few not so nice cuss words, and drank a few glasses of wine. But I am over it now, and I am ready for this next cycle of only my AF would arrive! I would have never thought I wanted cramps and the "battle of Gettysburg" as bad as I do right now. AF always arrives 24 hours before my dear husbands comes home from being offshore for long periods at the time (every single time), so its probably holding out another week to be a stick in the mud as usual.

My meds; Clomid, Ovridel, and Promitrium has been ordered and on its way and today I got my new stash of preggo tests. I always order a pack of 50 ovulation tests and 25 pregnancy tests from a company called Wondfo thru Amazon.com. As I am now doing IUIs and all monitoring is done at the fertility clinic, I do not need the ovulation tests. So I ordered 50 pregnancy tests! Yes 50 tests. It may sound crazy, but I have a plan :)

First off the Wonfo tests are super cheap at $0.33 a piece and they really do work and I never pay shipping. Theses tests will pick up HCG number as low as 25 and I think they are more reliable than First Response. The green tests in the picture is basically the same test except a tad bit more sensitive at 20 HCG positive reading. They are more expensive at $0.85 a piece, so not really worth the buy in my opinion.

Secondly, last month I tried to be very good and listened to the doctor when he said; DO NOT TEST until day 14th when you come back in for a beta blood test. So as the nice little school girl that I am I agreed and did not buy any tests. I drove myself crazy not knowing if the HCG was out of my system or if the progesterone was making me sick. etc etc etc So this time around I will test to see how long the trigger medicine sits in my body and continue to test until day 14th to see I can get an answer before going in for the ever dreaded beta test. I love science so this little project should be fun.

I am still taking Pregnitude and I love it! No side effects, super easy to take, and its nice knowing I am helping my eggs as they develop. Many women say their skin has gotten better, but not me. My face looks like I am 13 all over again which is probably a side effect of all the hormones I have been taking in the past 28 days. What I have noticed is that I am no longer like I could kill a person for some sweet yummy chocolate, as the matter of fact, I am not even craving sweets or bad bad carbs :) WINNING!!!! So thank you Pregnitude for that!

I forgot to take a picture of my 81mg Baby Aspirin, and my prenatal pills I am taking. But we all know that women who struggle with infertility take way too many pills than they are comfortable with.

So now what do I do? I wait... AGAIN But this time a little bit more armed in the conquest of snagging us a little bambino :)

Good luck to all you TTCers out there and may God bless you all!