Yup. As of yesterday, we are officially Trying to Have Another Baby. (I’ll be calling it TTC, for trying to conceive, from now on, because I’m lazy and that’s what all the kids on the Internet call it.)

We met with the very nice woman who runs the fertility practice that Jill picked — mine was horribly inconvenient — and we SO enjoyed talking with her. If I’d met her before I picked my docs, I probably would have picked her too.

And even though we had several entertaining digressions, including women’s basketball and our adoption attorney, the meeting still was much shorter than the 2 hours booked.

That’s because we already have a donor, so she didn’t have to spend the usual 40 minutes discussing “how to pick a donor,” and Jill has already been charting, taking prenatals, and we’re generally familiar with the whole TTC process.

For all of that, she also gave us a discount on the cost of the visit. Bonus! Especially since she is an “out of network” provider, so our cadillac health insurance only covers 70% of the visit, and will probably be a pain about that. (Still, we have some coverage, so I really can’t complain.)

Now, we have an onslaught of tests. And by we, I mean Jill. But after my experience between our DC and ATL doctors, I have become a complete convert to the idea that running a zillion “does everything seem to be working properly?” tests before spending hundreds of dollars on an IUI cycle, is a very good idea indeed.

Hopefully, all of the tests can be done over the next 6 weeks. And REAALLLLLLY HOPEFULLY everything will come out in the normal range.

If that happens, then we’re “good to go” with trying. And if we’re really, really lucky, Jill could wind up getting pregnant almost exactly 2 years after I got pregnant with Noah, giving us 2 little Aquarians.

Unresolved related thoughts:

  • We only have 4 units left of our donor. That makes for difficult decisionmaking in terms of how many insems to do per cycle.
  • This practice prefers Letrozole to Clomid, which is apparently much more predictable for creating 2 or 3 follicles per cycle, not 2 or 3 or 8 or 15. And their clinical results are only 3% multiples using Letrozole; Dr Google says results are about 8% for mothers taking Clomid.
  • So maybe we do 2 insems on the first cycle (assuming one happens) where there are 3 follicles? The theory being that if we have the most targets and the most swimmers, we will have the the best chance of pregnancy. Undecided but leaning that way.
  • It turns out that you can get on a WAITING LIST for a donor, and if any of his swimmers come back on the market, you might get them. How weird is that?