IVF

After careful thought, Al and I have decided to go ahead with IVF as soon as possible.

This is not to say that we'll be doing it next month - it is, afterall, going to cost $8,000.00 smackeroos, and between you, me, a new bathroom, and a broken down car, we need to save the $8,000.00 smackeroos. But this year, we hope, we will do a cycle.

We've actually set a date, but we're we're keeping that to ourselves for now. We do promise to let you in when it gets down to the wire though.

Yes, we were going to wait a year, but that decision was based on certain things. My endo, for example, not raising it's head again. At the time I saw Dr G, I was symptom free. Now, just a short while later (2 months), I am back to living with most of the symptoms I had pre-op. If nothing else, it's hard trying to make babies when you're in pain. Plus, although Dr G said that he didn't believe my endo was an issue, he also admitted that they really don't know how it affects fertility.

Another thing is that by the end of the year it will have been a further 9 months since we saw Dr G anyway, and about 32/33 months trying to conceive ...and if we're not pregnant by then, I think waiting another 3 months or whatever to run an IVF cycle would just be humouring ourselves anyway.

Waiting that year was always going to depend on how we felt about waiting as the year progressed anyway. We agreed that at any time either of us wanted to pull the plug on the wait, the plug would be pulled, and as it happens, we both reached for it at the same time.

Besides, if everything had gone as we had planned in the first place, we would have celebrated our first child's first birthday in March and we wouldn't be having this conversation. First and foremost, plans are a guide. That's all. So, we're changing ours.