As we had now been trying to get pregnant for quite some time, we finally got our referral to the Fertility Specialist.
At our first visit and going through all of our medical history, he fully believed that the only thing stopping us from getting pregnant was due to the operation on my cervix and the lack of cervical mucous to help transport the semen, aswell as the amount of scarring.
He thought that IUI would be the best option for us. He was a little worried about getting the catheter through my cervix, so at one of my scans before we started he tried it out and got through with no issues. So it was full steam ahead.
We had numerous scans, as my regular clockwork cycle decided to do something different (they said it is quite common when starting any sort of fertility treatment) and then we were scheduled for our first real try at IUI in October 2012.
My FS had a little trouble getting the catheter through, but nothing major and we left feeling hopeful that in a few weeks time i would be pregnant.
It was not to be..
The next month we were set to try again, although my body decided that it didn't even want to ovulate that month, so we got a month off.
In December 2012 we were all set to try again and all was going perfectly until my FS really struggled to get the catheter through my cervix - it took quite some work, but he finally got there. He suggested that if it didn't work this time, then we really needed to be thinking about IVF!
Wow, that really hurt! I never really believed that we would need IVF, and everyone that talked about it also talked about how expensive it was, like thousands and thousands of dollars. How would we ever afford it!
I crossed my fingers and hoped that this round of IUI did the trick and we didn't need the IVF, but things just weren't meant to be..
