I went in for our first IUI (intrauterine insemination) today. If one more person asks if this is "the turkey baster method" I'll pull my hair out. I realize that this is meant as an innocent question and it shouldn't bother me, but for some reason it does.
Previously, we were using "timed intercourse." Sounds fun, right? Nothing ruins the mood like a middle-aged doctor telling you that "tonight is the night."
IUI really isn't much sexier. I had an appointment to drop off "the cup." They perform a semen analysis and then prepare the specimen for the procedure (it has to be "washed" so that my uterus doesn't have a fit.
I came back to the office a bit later. They showed me how the ensured that none of the specimens became mixed up, which of course increased my anxiety 10-fold. I hadn't really thought of that minute possibility up to that point. The doc took a very thin catheter and passed it through my cervix, pushed the plunger, and was done. It took all of 2 seconds.
That was it. I knew it was a really simple procedure, but I was really disappointed by how anticlimactic it was! After seven monitoring appointments, 13 days of injections, rushing to the office with "the cup"...I felt like I should have been given a balloon or a lollipop.
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