So, I am preparing for AF. My temp plummeted this morning...and I am cramping like heck. So I am preparing for the next cycle. We were going to go to the next step....injectables (Follistim) but DH wants to wait. As you all know, it is really expensive and we have no fertility insurance like so many others on this forum. We are lucky in the sense that we have insurance coverage for the meds, but the procedures are really expensive too. It is about $1500 a cycle for us to do the Follistim and IUI. When DH heard that, in combination with the fact that it isn't a guarantee to work the first time, he was really disheartened. So, I want this to be something we both want to do, as much as I want it.....so I didn't push it. If I had, he would have found a way for us to scrounge up the money, but I don't want to be that way. Anyway, we have been taking the last two cycles off of meds and now we are going to continue that break. (can I say GRRRRR..... :( ) Anyway, we have been using preseed, OPK, BBT with Fertility Friend, prenatals, DH is on a daily multi vitamin and I was looking for anything else I could try this month. This, along with a prayer my cleaning lady gave me, we are hoping it works this month. She gave me a prayer she used 11 years ago during her fertility battles, pulled her family together and asked them to pray it everyday along with her for abour 15 days. We are catholic, you know how we love those patron saints! St. Anne is the patron saint of housewives, women in labor and a couple other things. I know I have prayed to St. Anthony many times when I have misplaced something, and he always pull through and I find what I lost! St. Anne is also Mary's mother. Anyway, if anyone is interested in this, please let me know. This worked for my cleaning lady after trying for 10 years and many many IVF's later, on their last ditch effort, they implemented this prayer at her aunt's request (who is also a nun) and it worked. I will try anything. I pray every night for this, why not say a special prayer for my request?
Any help with some extra's I could be doing would be appreciated....
SSBD to all....
Heather