The First Visit

The first visit with the fertility doctor we talked about my husband and my medical history. The doctor went over everything and told us that we have unexplained infertility because he did not see any reason why we haven’t conceived.

The doctor recommends intrauterine insemination (IUI), which is artificial insemination (I will use the abbreviations IUI when I talk about this in the future). This procedure consists of collecting sperm from my husband and then the nurse placing the sperm into my uterus. This gives the sperm a head start but it still seeks out the egg on its own.
IUI is often selected for couples who have been trying to conceive for at least a year but have no reasons for their infertility. IUI is also a less expense way of trying to conceive.
I was to call the doctors office on the first day of my menstrual cycle. I called the office and an appointment was made to come into the office for a vaginal ultrasound. A cyst was found on one of my ovaries so I ended up having to take birth control for one month which cancelled starting the IUI process. I then will call the office next month on the first day of my cycle to see if the cyst had vanished.

White flour what is so bad about that??

When flour is bleached (which is a bleaching agent used to make it white)several nutrients are being removed from the grain. So you think that this wouldn't be that bad yes it is. After, the removal of the wheat germ and other nutrients of the grain all you have left are carbohydrate and then they will add back into the flour supplementary vitamins and minerals. Those items added back into the flour are most likely not in a digestible form. What to look for is nothing else but 100% whole wheat. You can find more information about white flour on Google search. Just go to the top right of my page and Google search for White Flour.

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Ingredients in our food!

Another thing that my husband and I have been trying to do is to watch what we eat. It may be too late for eating right to help in the fertility department for us but it is never to late to start eating right to live a longer healthy life. I hope everyone will read this and maybe this will help in the health of your family.

We try to eat healthy without going too far out of our way. One way of doing this is staying away from High Fructose Corn Syrup. HFCS is found in many foods in most cupboards. Soda pop, ketchup, salad dressing, and white bread are just a few.
HFCS causes your body to crave more food and store more fat. Most people want to avoid both of these effects as much as possible. It has been proven to cause Type II diabetes in mice. It causes an insulin spike and leads to insulin resistance. This is a poison that has both short and long term effects.
It is not hard to find salad dressings and bread with no HFCS. You just have to read some labels. We have been so happy with the flavors of the higher quality and more healthy foods we have been finding at our regular grocery store. It’s a great, cheap, way to be healthier, lose weight, and avoid diabetes with no sacrifice.

McCormick's Creek State Park

Today we all packed up and drove to Spencer, Indiana, which is about an hour or so away from home. We wanted to do a trail to the caves unfortunately, the caves were closed. We were able to go into the creek at the falls. Here is a video of Sadie and Keena playing in the creek.
By the way, if you didn't notice on the video Sadie sometimes is in her own little world but we love her!

The Costs

Going through infertility can get very expensive. Many insurance companies do not cover this. My insurance does not. My recommendation is to talk to your insurance company and find out on each thing what is covered and what is not. For instance, I thought a semen analysis would be covered but it was not. There will be many other things throughout this journey that I could have done a better job into check costs and coverage. I am addressing this to those of you just starting out so you don't make the same mistakes as I have. I have paid too much for a prescription that I should have checked around to all my local pharmacies instead of just going to the one I always went to. I recommend that you research just how much each thing is going to cost and find out the best way to plan for this.
Infertility is very emotionally anyway and then facing the expense can be difficult. This can cause tremendous stress on a couple.

Semen analysis

Another step into infertility is for my husband to do a semen analysis. This tested his Sperm count (number of sperm), motility (percentage of living sperm), and morphology (normal shape of the sperm). The analysis showed everything was good. However, he was a little low on his FSH level in which he was prescribed Clomid to increase it.