So this month was my first month on Metformin +Letrozole and <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> I was so excited to start this cycle. I just KNEW this would be my month.

Well, this cycle was a roller coaster to say the least. I have a longer period than normal so it made my uterus lining too thin and they felt like the letrozole didn't work for me. They called off my <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> and told me to come back in five days for an ultrasound to see if there's any progress. I was SO mad and defeated, I did everything right and felt like I was being punished

Came back five days later expecting nothing but they were VERY surprised at my progress. My uterus lining went from 2mm to 8mm and my follicles went from 7mm to 17mm in just five days! I owe a lot of it to taking a baby aspirin, eating pineapple and drinking pomegranate juice like there weren't no tomorrow

Got the ultrasound results back and my RE specialist calls me and was like YOU NEED TO TAKE A TRIGGER SHOT TONIGHT! Tonight? Trigger shot? This wasn't discussed and although i have a needle phobia I was willing to stab my self to get what I want. However NO WHERE in a 4 hour radius was there a pharmacy that offers trigger shots 🙄 So now my RE specialist and I are freaking out. I made 55 phone calls that day! Finally we got a company four hours away that would overnight my trigger shot, it would arrive Thursday morning and my <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> was scheduled Friday morning. Although rushed, I was happy that everything was falling into place, or so I thought...

I woke up to check my tracking on my trigger shot. The place that was only four hours away in Atlanta GA, shipped it to Memphis Tennessee, which is the totally opposite direction and 7 hours away! I'm starting to get nervous, doing the math at when I would get my shot. I woke up to check it again and now it's in Tallahassee Florida, which is closer, but on the opposite side that it was four hours away! Like it totally jumped right over me! Went from Georgia to Tennessee, to Florida to Alabama. Now I'm getting nervous that my Trigger shot is abandoning its responsibilities and just traveling the entirety of the Southeastern United States.

This puts me getting my trigger shot at 8pm vs 8am!! Big difference. So now I start freaking out because my <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> is scheduled only 11 hours later! Which the success rates for IUIs done that early are slim to none. So now I gotta call my RE Specialist to explain my new dilemma. And of course it's a huge office, so I just get the nurse answering machine and leave half a dozen of awkward and ill prepared messages with all my googled statistics from Thebump.com and that Bittanygurl22 back in 2009 didn't get pregnant after her <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> 12 hours from her trigger shot, so how could I?

She calls me back and lets me know that my <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> got rescheduled for Saturday at 8am. Now I know it's Saturday so that means the ultrasound technician won't be there so they'll just do the <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a>, but 36 hours after a trigger shot is a lot better than 10 hours, so overall I'm happy. My trigger shot comes in Thursday night and my husband and I are in the bathroom with the instruments laid out like he's about to preform surgery on me. I told him, now is the time to take any frustrations out on me. I want you to insert this needle into my abdomen. And im nervous because we're both very under qualified to be administering shots. So our Thursday night consisted of sitting on our bathroom floor, I'm eating the snickers while holding back tears and he's stabbing me with a needle. Marriage is weird.

But he did it! And I don't know why, but when your husband is holding a fertility needle, and correctly injects fertility medicine into your abdomen you're inclined to start fantasizing about how cute of a doctor he would be and you may or may not get horny. Which is very mean, because you have to abstain from sex two days before an <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> so why would he look so hot? So then you're inclined to get mad at him for looking sexually tasty. Like I said, marriage is weird.

The next night, the night before my <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> I get my FIRST ever positive OPK! I have PCOS and don't ovulate on my own so to see a positive ANYTHING just made my night. I even showed my dogs my positive ovulation stick. It was a family celebration.

So Saturday morning at 2:30 AM we get in our car and travel four hours to the womens and children's center of Birmingham, Alabama. He's got a semen washing @7 and I've got the <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> @8 , which is exactly 36 hours after the trigger. Well we get there at 6:45 and absolutely no one is there. 7 comes and goes and around 7:30 we start trying to find someone, anyone to help us. There's not a single soul on our entire floor. It feels like we were the only two after a zombie apocalypse. But I'm starting to get mad because now I'm at 37 hours and getting impatient.

The lab tech shows up and calls my husband is back to do his part of the TTC process of jacking off in a cup and the lab tech comes to apologize for being late, and I really want to be mad at him but he's very sincere and reminds me of Dwight from the office with his awkwardness and I didn't feel morally right about unleashing all my male frustrations on him. He was also very excited about my husbands "perfect and beautiful " sperm sample, so you couldn't hate the guy.

The nurse arrives and just like that the <a href="https://glowing.com/glow-fertility-program">IUI</a> is done

It only took like 5 seconds, not an exaggeration, so now I'm like "That's it". Because it didn't amount to my expectations (I know, I'm working on it). So then we drove the four hours back and got back around 8 and we have had sex 3 times since but I honestly feel like by the time we got home and have sex I've already ovulated and an egg only lasts 12-24 hours , so I feel like I missed my window. But this is our first cycle and hopefully next cycle we can time it better and better organized. I just wish this cycle would be the one because it's so expensive so fertility treatments. Anyways, I'm in my two week window, so here's to hoping I get surprised and proved wrong!

Baby dust to me and every woman on here that's working towards their pregnancy. TTC is hard, and you are all so brave❤️