Finally feel like I have something to report!!

DH and I went to the FS today to 'sign up for IVF' (DH cracked up laughing when I said this to the FS!)

The FS asked me about the last counselling session. He said that I hadn't handled the result of the last IUI terribly well. I must admit I wasn't expecting this question, however I answered honestly. I said that with the change of donor, I honestly thought it was going to work this time, and I was quite upset when it didn't. Then I got terribly ill with colds etc. However I felt now that I was coming back into myself. He seemed to accept this.

We then signed the paperwork. Something I was a little shocked about was explanation about any of the resulting extra embies that we may not use. I'd assumed that DH and I could make the choice to either donate to another couple or to donate to research. However, as our donor has only specifically donated to us, we cannot do either unless we have the permission of our donor.

Yep, another step that anyone using IVF as a couple without a donor does not have to think about. Suppose we should be used to that by now!

However DH and I decided that we're not even going to think about this until we get to the end of the procedure and find out how many viable embies are left before we go back to our donor and make a final decision about the rest. I'm not happy about that, but I can only deal with one hurdle at a time.

We start up at the end of the month. Finally it feels like something is happening!