We’re officially in the two-week wait after our first IUI with donor sperm—and by the time you’re listening to this, we may or may not know if it worked.
In this episode of Unfertile & Unfiltered, we recap what our IUI actually looked like, from thawing the donor sperm and the insemination itself to progesterone, symptoms, spotting, and all the overthinking that comes with waiting for a pregnancy test.
We also talk about how surprisingly different this two-week wait has felt compared to where we were a year ago. After a year of male-factor infertility, azoospermia, fertility treatments, and eventually choosing donor sperm, there’s a little less desperation to control the outcome—and a lot more acceptance that we’ll be okay even if we get our hearts broken again.
Plus, we talk about whether we actually think Sidney is pregnant, how infertility changes the experience of announcing a pregnancy, how much the last year has changed us, and whether Matt finally feels ready to be a dad.
In this episode:
What our first IUI with donor sperm was actually like
The IUI procedure and what surprised us
Progesterone after IUI
Symptoms during the two-week wait
Waiting for our first beta hCG pregnancy test
How infertility changes your relationship with control
Looking back on one year of male-factor infertility
How infertility has changed both of us
Our completely different approaches to waiting for pregnancy results
How we’d tell our families if the IUI worked
Unfertile & Unfiltered is our honest, unfiltered conversation about male-factor infertility, azoospermia, donor conception, fertility treatment, and figuring out how to build a family when nothing goes according to plan.
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