IUI? Check!

So everything when well yesterday! I was getting nervous the night before, but I felt pretty good all day yesterday before I went in. My sister in law, A. (the one who is recently pregnant) came to visit me in the morning and brought me a little treat. It was so nice an thoughtful! I really appreciated it. My husband came home at lunch and took the rest of the day off to go with me.

So we dropped off the eh-hem, sample at 2:30 and it takes them an hour to "wash" the sperm (get all the good ones out) so we went and met my sister somewhere and came back. She said she would come with me and I wasn't sure if the hubster would be able to take the rest of the day off, so I asked her before to meet me somewhere. I was really glad to have her there, even just sitting in the waiting room, it was nice to know she was there for me. So we went back and I started to get a little nervous, but I've been praying alot to be able to be calm and handle things so it really wasn't that bad. I am so grateful for that. I know Heavenly Father helped me get through it and calm my mind. So they brought me in the room and I changed, and then joked with my husband about the various "instruments of torture" laying around and saying "if I do get pregnant at least you can say you were there for the conception!". A little lame but it certainly helps to joke sometimes. Then I had the procedure done, which was uncomfortable, not entirely painless, but could be worse. It didn't take that long, maybe 5- 10 minutes. Oh, and they said the sample was good so SCORE! So then I rested on the table for a bit and was then given instructions. So I'm going to start taking the progesterone tonight, and it's something you keep on taking if you get pregnant, and stop if you don't. And I have a pregnancy test scheduled in the office for June 2nd. So it's going to be a nerve-racking 2 weeks until then. I am really going to try to keep myself busy during the day and try to relax as much as possible. I still can't believe I just did that! The whole time during the procedure I was thinking "I can't believe I'm actually doing this!" I have high hopes, but am trying to be realistic too. Now at least I know for a fact I can do this. It hasn't been an easy road though, but for the first time in a long time, I feel really excited about it!