Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Step four...another ultrasound

So we are in the insurance no longer covers this phase, and payed our first $190 today for an ultrasound. Fun fun.  However, there was some good news.  There are three potential eggs, two on the left side and one on the right. There are two viable ones, and one that has no potential as it is not a mature egg.  This means one on each side. This is good because we are not sure which one of the tubes really works!  So friday morning they do the insemination. This means tonight I get to give myself a shot in the stomach of HCG to trigger the eggs. (it is very cool they can see them before they come).  Then early morning on friday we go in. It is about 1/2 hour process, after bringing the sperm in to get washed.  They wash the sperm so that they are pure and the good ones are the ones that get through. They hope to have five million.  So any rate, after all this, I still have only the normal 20% chance of becoming pregnant if at least one tube is functioning.  At most I could possibly have twins, but it is pretty rare still. With artificial insemination they usually get just one, but there was two cases of twins in the last year.  So we will see.  Wish us the best!

1 comment:

  1. An ultrasound such as this would be neat to see. Best of luck! The odds seem to be in your favor with one egg in each tube. I wish you guys the best and will pray harder this week!

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