For those of you who aren’t big on reading comments, but still want the news:
Nurse Indecisive called me this morning, reporting that Dr. Charming is not worried about my once/daily nursing specifically because we know that I’m ovulating, responding appropriately to the Clomid, etc. Last cycle there were two probably-mature-egg follicles and two smaller ones at my mid-cycle check. Which is actually right on target — 2 or 3 eggs is the goal.
He also reminded me that at my age and on my medications, each IUI cycle only has an approximately 20% chance of success.
That was kind of a sock in the gut.
I dropped out of Sociology grad school because I’m incredibly bad at statistics, so I can’t tell you what that translates to over the course of 3 cycles. But I know for sure that the answer is not awesome.
I *think* that I’m not going to change any plans or family practices for the next cycle. But I did raise the question with Jill about maybe saving the last vial for IVF. Which then leads to a whole conversation about how to pay for it, and whether or not we would consider doing an “IVF vacation” to the Czech Republic or South Africa, etc.
Your original plan had been for Jill to get pregnant, right? So Noah and number 2 would only be half-bio sibs. Since you are now trying to get pregnant, is it important that they be full bio-sibs? Number 2 will already be as related to Noah as if Jill got pregnant with Noah’s donor if you use different sperm.
Brooke, I know it sounds completely strange, but honestly, we’d never even talked about that! And it had never even crossed my mind.
It is something worth thinking about. My emotional first reaction is no, but I think I should try to just be with the idea for a bit.