"We're not barren! We're reproductively challenged!"

I love Sex and the City...

We were watching Sex and the City reruns this weekend. Specifically, we were watching the episodes where Charlotte and Trey are trying to have a baby. In a heated conversation between them, Charlotte corrects Trey's assessment of the situation with the quote above..."We're not barren! We're reproductively challenged!"...I've had that in my head all weekend.

Your favorite reproductively challenged lesbians went in for another insemination yesterday. No rest for the wicked. This time, we held off an extra day to see if we could get a bit closer to the actual ovulation. (segue into the science of reproduction) So, your progesterone elevates to induce ovulation. You are in your "ovulation window" if your level is anywhere between 1-3. Once you ovulate, the level goes back down. On Monday, I was at 1.2. Turns out that I was around this level the last two tries. They wanted to wait an extra day to see if I would go up further (meaning closer to ovulation), or if I would go down (meaning it already happened). Well, on Tuesday I was a 2.9. I felt like I passed a big midterm or something. They were very excited...we got all excited too. :)

So we feel like it was timed better this time...we did the procedure closer to when the egg is actually showing up to the party. It is kind of nice when trying to be hopeful that something different happened this time. Something changed...surely it'll work this time!

I have to say - as much as we are frustrated by this process, there are lots of folks in the same, or a similar boat. The fertility clinic is busy all the time. On days we go up at 7am for lab work, the lab waiting room is packed - 10 or 12 people waiting all the time. One or two were in for first trimester blood work - they were the happy ones. I overheard one woman give her birthdate to the lab tech - she is 44 years old. As hard as this process is now, she's going to be 62 when that kid gets out of high school. She is a brave soul indeed.

So here's happy thoughts going out to all the reproductively challenged folks...I hope there's a happy ending out there for all of us.