IUI #1- Second Appointment

This time change has been crazy!! It's messing me up on my weekly schedule! That's why I'm a little late posting today. Anyways... You all want to know the next part of the story, so here it is!

Our next appointment for the IUI process was on day 12 of my cycle. At this appointment they do an ultrasound to check a couple of things. Randy and I were a little anxious about this appointment because it determined when we would do the actual IUI.

They put us into a room and I got ready for the ultrasound. The lady came in and began the ultrasound. She checked my uterine lining first. They do this to make sure your body has a thick enough lining to support a growing baby. Mine was right where it needed to be!

She then checked my ovaries to see how the medication I was given worked. She first checked my right ovary. It had an egg growing the measured at a 20. And then she checked my left ovary. It also had an egg growing that measured at a 24!!

After seeing this she informed us that they usually want to see the eggs between 20-24 before they do the trigger shot. This meant that I could get the trigger shot and the IUI would be done the next day!! We were so excited and anxious to finally know when the IUI would happen.

There was just one thing standing in our way. And that was the trigger shot... This shot contains the HCG hormone. Which as some of you know is the pregnancy hormone. This hormone tells my body to release the eggs. It also makes your body think you are pregnant and a lot of women will feel the symptoms of pregnancy in the days following.

I was supposed to give it to myself at the time they told me and I was nervous about that. I mean who likes to get shots?! Let alone have to give yourself those shots! Luckily for me, they said that they could give me the shot there since it was the time I would have given it to myself anyway. So we went into the room and a nurse showed me how to administer the shot in case there's a next time that I would actually have to give myself the shot. This shot is given in the belly and surprisingly the shot did not hurt! At least not until later lol

After I was given the shot they took us out and explained what would happen the next day. We left that appointment super excited and nervous!


I just want to give a little note of encouragement to all those women out there struggling to get pregnant. Don't give up hope!! Keep trying and doing your best! It will happen some day!

To those of you who have to give yourself shots every day for a treatment you're going through, I commend you! I know I'd struggle having to do that!

Til next time!
Becca