Although we haven’t technically been trying for a full year, we’ve been
referred to the fertility clinic in town. Questions about our eating,
drinking and smoking habits, medical histories, physical examinations,
blood work and then booked in for various other tests and ultrasounds.
We were given all the stats as well. Nothing new here … the older you
are, the harder it is to get pregnant and the greater the risks. But not
impossible. In fact, most couples do conceive within this second year
of trying. So there’s definitely hope.
The best advice, keep on trying and put our names on the waiting list
for IVF. It’s about a year wait and that gives us plenty of time to talk
about whether we even want to go down that avenue and also to try.
There’s also another method we can try that I have never heard of called
IUI. It’s not as successful as IVF but also less invasive and
technically there’s no wait. I say technically as the funding has run
out for this financial year so we will have to wait until April. God is in control and we can trust him.
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