Hi Saph,

I'm so sorry to hear about your BFNs

We are doing our first IUI this month. TBH I haven't found it terribly invasive or much of an inconvenience in my life, but I should also mention that I am a SAHM. Don't know how it would go with work if you work.

I had a scan on CD10 and had one 20mm follie, triggered that night at 9pm and had the IUI 36 hours later. So I was lucky and didn't take long to get to trigger.

Basically on IUI day what we did was DH did his thing and I dropped it to the clinic at 8am (left my DD at home with DH) then went home so DH could go to work. I should point out that we only live a 10 min drive from our clinic too. Anyway I went back to the clinic at 9.30am after they had had time to prepare the sample and had the IUI. The whole process took about 3/4 of an hour, including a bit of time in the clinic waiting room, and I took my DD with me (she was not down the business end). We haven't told anyone in our families what we are having done, so unfortunately taking her with me is a bit of a necessity It was just like a Pap smear, and was just a little uncomfortable as a Pap smear is. But no big deal really.

I hope this helps and welcome to the thread All the best!