Storming the Castle!

I go in for my IUI tomorrow at 1pm!

I've started calling it "Storming the Castle" on Facebook, because "Turkey Baster" is just weird. :)

And an Intra-uterine Insemination (IUI) is basically the lab picking the healthiest little soldiers to attack and fertilze and egg, which has some pretty good defenses.

Then we wait.

I'm in the 10% success rate group, so there is a very large possiblity that I'll have to do this again. But that's ok.

Good thing flexible spending renews in a month!

The cost here is about $850 per attempt (including the costs of ovulation predictor kits and pregnancy tests) which is still less expensive than an InVitro Fertilization (IVF). (If we do attempt an IVF, and it's a boy, we are going to name him Scott E. so we can laugh when he becomes a teenager and says "I wish I wasn't artificially created in a lab!" Poor kid...) We are going to attempt three IUI's before we look to IVF, but the possibility still remains.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We have the procedure tomorrow, and then I'll find out what the next step is. Hopefully, we'll have a tiny little Christmas present!