Attempt 1 with BFN :-(

2mommies1baby83

Hello everyone, guess I just needed to ramble for a few minutes. So my wife and I had our first attempt with IUI, well I guess technically 2nd, first round the follicles were not big enough. This time around we had several follicles that were good size, had our IUI on Dec. 23 and our 2 weeks were over yesterday. Went for blood work and got the call today, actually about 20 min ago that the attempt was not successful. The nurse seemed very enthusiastic that it would happen. They said that there is no reason why my wife cannot have a baby. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do when I had to make the phone call to her at work and tell her she wasn't pregnant. I don't know if anyone is going through this let down right now but I am hoping both that I am not alone in this as well as hoping that I am because I do not want anyone to have to feel the pain that we are feeling right now. If anyone has gotten pregnant and has any good tips for us to try the next round it would be greatly appreciated. We will try again as soon as her next cycle comes around. Should be any day now. Fingers crossed that the next time is a success, I can't stand to see the hurt in her eyes and hear the pain in her voice.
Thank you all for reading/listening to me

Elliejo

Hello 2mommies! Welcome to the boards. We did not get pregnant our first attempt either. It was really really hard. Quite a few tears. Then we find out at Christmas our brother and sister in law got a BFP on the same day we got the negative. Hard to handle especially since their attempt was free. My advice to you is to not give up. We went through our second iui on the 5th and are waiting. We did two inseminations to increase the chance. We are hoping that was the trick. This has been a hard journey but please don't give up. Read through the message boards so many people with positive stories. People using our donor have created a fb page which has been incredibly helpful to us. What donor you using? Thinking about you and maybe January is your month. I'm sure hoping it's ours.