What infertility does to your sex life, take 1

Me: We need to have sex every night this week because I'm due to ovulate soon.
Hubby: Every night?
Me: Well, I'm not temping but my cervical mucus is making itself known ( I proceed to reach down into my ladygarden & pull out a wet finger) & today is CD 11...
Hubby: (toughing my finger) Uh huh. And you usually ovulate around CD 13 or 14, right?
Me: Yup. I'm gonna go take a shower; I'll let you know when I'm ready.
Hubby: OK, just as long as it's not during "Family Guy".
Me: No problem.

I thought baby making was supposed to be romantic...

Extending our break

Although we'll still be trying "the old fashioned way", we're extending our break from fertility treatments until the summer. One, life is nuts between both of us working full time, my job now including some out-of-state travel & both of us having 2 night classes each. Two, we're currently trying to get my mother-in-law here from India for better cancer treatments; not an easy feat. Three, I want to lose some more weight so IF we need to go down the IVF road I'll actually be able to since there are BMI restrictions. And four (finally) we've exhausted our flexible spending account for the year; it re-ups in July.

Scary thought: I put in the max amount of $2500 in the flex account. Considering we're one of the lucky few to have good infertility coverage (80%), that means if we were out-of-pocket we'd have spent over $20,000 on NOT getting pregnant this year. Christ, that's more than I spent buying my brand new car! Something to remember the next time I have a friend/relative/co-worker complain about the cost of daycare. Hey, at least you have someone calling you "mom" after you spent all that money; all I have is a trash can full of negative pregnancy tests & used maxi pads!

/end rant...for now.

Sperm sperm sperm sperm...lovely sperm...wonderful sperm!

Hopefully you got the play on words & the picture posted above...

So I'm back from D.C. & entrenched in yet another term of night classes. I caught a pretty informative & amusing program the other night called "Sizing Up Sperm"; I highly recommend watching it, even if you're not infertile. It kind of reminded me of this scene in Woody Allen's "Everything you wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask". Maybe I just have a weird sense of humor.

Oh look! An episode of "The View" that didn't end up annoying me!

They did a pretty good job covering the basics of IF & I really appreciated hearing the stories of 3 of the hosts but Elizabeth Hasselback can DIAF with her celiac disease excuse. At any rate, here's the full episode if you're interested.

Busy

Life's been pretty hectic lately. In the past few weeks the following have happened: we bought a new car, moved into a new apartment, I was selected to help run a super cool study @ work which has A LOT of training involved (including a trip to DC next month). Plus, my grandfather died last week, which wasn't a complete shock but still a major bummer.

And in 2 weeks I go back to school 2 nights per week, because I don't have enough to do apparently. Still, I'm going to try & be better about posting more often here. It's not like I don't have constantly racing thoughts about numerous things that would surely entertain you; I do. I'm simply often too lazy to type them all out here on my slow-as-molasses 7 year old laptop.

2 years of bliss...well, mostly bliss...

Monday marked 2 years of marriage for Vid & I. As it was a work night, we didn't go out or do anything special to mark the occassion. I did get us a nice cake from a local bakery & my parents gave us a beautiful framed collage of photos from our wedding. Time sure does fly. Wow; 2 years already?!?!? I kind of want to smack myself though, because immediately after wishing my hubby happy anniversary my thoughts immediately turned to the fact being married 2 years means we've been trying for a baby for *almost* 2 years now as well. Maybe anniversary #3 will be celebrated with dirty diapers...or at least morning sickness.

BFNWTFOMGBBQ!

BFN Wednesday, WTF appointment yesterday, AF today...

Guess who's now insulin resistant (IR)? Me. I was borderline when I started seeing my RE last year & she re-checked it this last beta day. She's thinking it's an implantation issue due to the IR given my follies responded well to both the Clomid & Follistim & my lining is fine. She doesn't want to do a lap @ this point because my ute is "textbook". Ironically, I've lost 24 lbs. since starting to see her (she weighed me). So I guess losing weight to get healthy = IR. She did say she was proud of me for losing weight @ a healthy pace & to keep up the good work.

At any rate, the plan is to have me take 2000mg of Metformin ER a day & see her in March (about 8 weeks) for a f/u. Then, we'll do more b/w & see what's up. If my levels are better & I haven't gotten a miracle BFP we will probably do another couple injectible IUIs. If not, we break out the big guns: IVF. So that's the plan & having a plan is a good thing.