It's been a while since I've updated, but life's been super busy. Jennie's busy at her new job and with photography, we've started playing softball on Tuesdays and Sundays, and I decided to take on some volunteer activities. That being said we're typically going non-stop during the week all day and most evenings. Sometimes a midst the hustle and bustle we look at each other and say how do you think this is going to be with a baby in the mix? I think once we have a little one we'll work harder to make the most of our time together--at least I like to think so. We've already made it a priority this year to do a date night every weekend. This past Friday night we baked homemade cookies together--it was a blast!
No exciting updates on the baby making front. We went in for another IUI and were assigned another new doctor. Jennie seems to always be ovulating on Mondays when our doctor is not in. Unfortunately, we haven't had any sort of connection with the other doctors, they've just sort of come into the room done the procedure and walked out--it's not the best experience. And to top it all off Jennie seems to have a "difficult" or "tricky" cervix that makes the IUI procedure very painful. Again after the 5th attempt we tried not to get our hopes up too high and to trust the process, but when Jennie started her period 14 days after insemination it was hard. We haven't given up hope and continue to keep our fingers (and toes!) crossed each month.
As we move forward in this process we're starting to wonder if we should transition to at home inseminations. I just have a hard time believing that we're going to get pregnant when Jennie is going through such a traumatic and painful event. This is something that we're going to have to talk with our donor and his family about to see if it's even something they'd be comfortable with, but we're hopeful that they will. It seems that so many of the lesbian couples I've connected with either face to face or online have shared stories of tons of failed IUI's at the doctor's and then getting pregnant pretty quickly at home. We'll see what the future has in store--hopefully a baby Crate is in the cards.
