Monday, April 23, 2012

Baby Staycation

Sorry for going radio silent but we've been on a bit of a break lately. Weve been talking about what's next and have a plan. (I believe we're at plan M not but who's counting) we have one sample left (we bought two vials last time), we have 3 300 unit vials of gonal f/follistim so we'll probably try to get one more (praying our RE has one!) and we have all but about $400 of what it would take to cover the costs of the monitoring and iui. So, financially we're good for one more cycle. After that, we're out of meds, cafeteria money and donor sperm. A fully out of pocket super ov cycle would cost between $3000 and $3500 all in which would take some planning. I don't even know if our RE would let us do a third round so it may be more than the financial implications at that point. Long story short hubby and I had a talk about all this and he wants to do this last cycle sometime in the next couple of months and if it doesn't work he wants to take several months off. He's tired of living and dying by my fertility cycle. He needs a break and I need to respect that. I think, if we don't get pregnant this time we'll probably be out until the holidays. I'm at peace with this for two reasons: he's put up with so much for me, I need to give him this and two: I've been working on putting my resume and portfolio together and have my eye one a couple architecture firms in Chicago which means fertility coverage from our insurance which means ivf. In the mean time I need to figure out when the right time is to do this next/last iui cycle. We have several weddings and a reunion coming up some committing to a cycle in the midst of a lot of travel is gonna be a challenge.