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.