So the room finally stopped spinning and I went on to make a full recovery from my surgery after about 7 weeks.

Once I was cleared by my OB, we went back to our fertility specialist. We quickly learned that our insurance company doesn’t tend to cover, well, pretty much anything… only the diagnosis and treatment of the underlying causes of infertility, not the actual fertility part.

After a few more tests on both of us, our fertility specialist determined that our cause of infertility was “Unknown”… which meant no real specific course of treatment, basically just trial and error.

September 25th, 2013 was the date of our first IUI (Intrauterine Insemination, aka The Turkey Baster Method). It was kind of weird to think that this might be the day our child was conceived, and we wouldn’t even be in the same room since my husband would be doing his part 2 hours before me! My husband and I had previously joked about how we’ll know we’re getting his swimmers. When our doctor came into the room he showed me the barcode on my paperwork and the barcode on my husband’s swimmers so that I could confirm they matched. I laughed and told my doctor my husband and I were just joking about that… he wasn’t amused. He sternly told me that they take that VERY seriously. OK. I’m sorry! I was just trying to make light of a stressful, and somewhat awkward situation!

After what seemed like a year (2 weeks) I went for my first blood test to see if we were pregnant or not. After what seemed like several weeks (several hours) we finally got a call from the nurse… my blood test had come back positive. We were pregnant!!