Meeting with the nurse

Yesterday was the husbands birthday and we spent a good two and a bit hours having our interview and IUI education with one of the fertility clinics nurses. Poor husband! Not a fun way to spend your birthday.

It was mostly a straight forward interview, answering questions about our health and lifestyle as well as our work. My work is going to be a bit of a problem. I've been offered a maternity leave contract but I think I'm going to have to turn it down.

We had the standard blood work taken, but we also opted to get extra testing done. To check and see if I'm a cystic fibrosis carrier as well as to check my AMH levels. Neither of those were covered by our private health insurance or medicare. We didn't have to have those extra tests done, but I'm the kind of person who likes to know all the possible outcomes.

The nurse also spoke about losing weight. Both my husband and I are overweight, but our FS hasn't said this is a problem. At our first appointment with Dr S, I was expecting him to mention it. All he said was "In a perfect world, everyone would be slim and at their ideal BMI, no-ones perfect and we can work around it."

But the nurse went on, and on, and on about it. I was ok with that, until she started recommending different diets to us. She talked about Jenny Craig, giving up alcohol (we rarely drink!), and then she recommended a Fasting diet. Apparently, this nurses husband has been on a Fasting diet and it's "medically proven". I seriously thought my eyes were going to roll out of my head when she said that. If she was referring us to a nutritionist I would've been fine with it. But when she talked about the medically proven Fasting diet and that it's healthy to lose up to 2kg a week she lost all credibility.

Then she asked if we'd like to delay our first cycle for three months to give us a chance to lose weight. Dr S didn't say anything about this! So we told the nurse we'd just like to start our first cycle straight away. I think delaying our first cycle would take a huge emotional toll on our relationship, it's been hard to just get to this point.

So the nurse continued on with the rest of education, talking about the different drugs I'll be on. I'm starting on FSH injections with a possible trigger injection. This is a bit scary, I don't have a huge problem with needles (blood work is another story!) but I don't know how I'll go injecting myself.

On day cycle day one, I'm to call the clinic. They'll have me come in that day or the following day for blood work and injectables education and I pick up my medications then. Depending on how long this cycle is, that could be anywhere from 7 - 14 days time.

Now, it's just a matter of waiting for CD 1 to arrive and then it all begins.