Though It Tarries

Surprise surprise... our last IUI cycle was, again, a big fat negative. So where do we go from here?  In case you've lost count, we're 3 cycles in and stillllll waiting.  Bleh.  Our clinic normally schedules an appointment with our doctor to sort of "regroup" after 3 failed cycles, so that's what we did this week.  We've been presented with a few options, so here's what we're tossing around at the moment: 1. (Simplest) - Continue doing up to 3 more IUI cycles with Clomid, same as we've been doing.  Just because it hasn't worked yet doesn't mean it never will.  This option is the cheapest, easiest, and least risky in terms of the possibility of multiples. 2. (A little more aggressive) - Continue up to 3 more IUI cycles with a drug called Bravelle (similar to Menopur), which is a daily self-injection (or spouse injection as I just don't think I have it in me) that will essentially cause more follicles to mature than Clomid does.  Th...

Wondering what the heck we've been up to since May??  I am sorely behind in updating, and for that I apologize to those who have been hanging on the edge of their seats. We decided to take some time off of treatment after our second round because of a family vacation in May that would have interfered with timing.  Truth be told, I was relieved to have a little "forced" time off.  I was tired of taking daily medication and feeling a little out of sorts about our whole situation, and I just needed some time to let go and sort of regroup.  So one month off turned into two, because I still didn't feel ready to jump back in.  But here we are, getting ready to have our third IUI in the morning, and we're back in the game. I am concurrently eager and ambivalent; hopeful and pessimistic; thankful and annoyed.  I still have a really hard time understanding why it must be so difficult for us to fulfill the most natural of human desires - the thing which God pu...