No sperm :(

Bat that is such positive news!! And three months is not to long at all.

I'm just waiting on AF to start my next cycle should be in te next few days but to be honest I'm struggling big time with the thought of doing it all again and getting a BFN. I dunno weather I'll go through with the cycle I can't handle the deverstation all over again.

Aw Jacq, it's such a mind game, hugs Hun.

Because I have two children from a previous relationship under 12 BC. Not sure what we will do if iui doesn't work, Ivf is so expensive.

How are you feeling BC? What is the follow up like? Or are you under a midwife now?

Hey I'm just jumping in here, BC knows me but for the rest of you, I'm two days away from a very likely negative blood test from our second IVF, so we are at the end of our publicly funded road. I have PCOS although plenty of eggs and ovulate ok on clomid but don't respond very well to IVF meds. DH has low sperm count/motility, under a million, although we know for a fact it has been higher as one count put him at about 25 mill. We're now faced with trying to work out what to do next, we have a private IVF cycle booked in October but the way I am feeling now I don't want to pay $10k for a cycle that produces one embryo which is all I've gotten out of the last two. I had wondered about IUI, how is this going to work for you Batmobile with your DH's low count? Are you using frozen sperm?

Mushroom that's exactly what I was thinking! I will ask...

Hi epic, nice to have some more people in here (well nice for the company, sh*t you need to be here). That sounds like a really hard decision on what to do. My husband has zero sperm and we have discovered he has a genetic thing going on which accounts for that so they won't even try and suck them out with a needle so we have to use donor sperm which is from frozen. We are on the waiting list for donor sperm and at the moment they said it's about 3 months (but 12-18 months for single women or lesbian couples) and costs about $2.2-$2.5k a pop.
Good luck for your test epic!

Oh bums epic :( sorry to hear that

Hi epic, they'll give you the smiley face ov prediction kits again and most clinics tell you to call when you get a smiley face and they book you in for your iui that day. Because the lh surge is over 2 days, I went for the iui on the 2nd smiley face day. I timed my iui for 30 hours after my first smiley face, even if egg was released it still has to travel down so swimmers can still meet the egg. Just my theory for cases with low sperm, im no expert though! In other countries iuis are down 36 hours after first surge so I kinda based my thoughts on that. It might have been coincidence but I had heaps of failed iuis on day 1 surge and 2 successful ones on day 2.
Hope that makes sense!
Oh just a side note, I never told the clinic it was my second surge day, I just pretended it was my first as I didn't want them to think I was second guessing their job!
Good luck and happy to answer any other questions when the time comes for you :)

Thanks for that Nat's mum! And BC - are you saying that your experience backs this up or that you had yours on the second surge day?