FINALLY!!!!

Got a call from my dear Dad last night to say there was a letter from the hospital for me, I have my cardio appointment!! 

This is how this makes me feel!!!

I thought it would be another 18 week wait for my appointment so didn't even think about IUI until May time, but our appointment is 25th February! yay!!

The fertility specialist said I should wait a week to give the paper work time to get to the Assisted Reproduction Team, then give her a call for a phone consultation and she'll sign us off for IUI straight away. I've already checked and I will be calling her on 4th March, my next cycle will begin 14th March. With any luck that will be our very first IUI cycle! I don't want to get too optimistic, as I keep thinking "If I don't think it's going to work, I won't be disappointed when it doesn't" but I've been researching on line, and most of the IUI success stories are from people who use injectibles, rather than have natural cycle IUI. As we'll be using injectibles, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't getting slightly excited. I need to remind myself that it's still only a 20% chance.

So it's taken three years, one miscarriage, about 30 blood tests, one HSG, one TV Ultrasound, two SA's, more blood tests, a brain tumour scare, changing fertility specialist and being 'lost in the system for 6 months', 4 months of Clomid and no BFP to get to this point. We're ready for SOMETHING to happen, anything.

IF (and its a big if) everything goes to plan, I'll be testing on March 28th, one month before my 25th birthday. Would I ever imagine that before the age of 25 I had already seen the world of infertility and know it all too well? No. But whilst in my first year of university, 7 years ago, my best friend and I sat down and made a 'life plan' (we were probably putting off revision) our life plans consisted of;

• Getting our teaching degrees - CHECK
• getting married - CHECK 
• having our own houses - SORT OF.
• not being skint - SORT OF
• having a baby at about 25 - Can I even be as bold as to think this is still possible? 

I bloody well hope so. 

Signing off

Strangely optimistic Steph (still the same person, I promise!)