To IUI (Again) or To Not IUI (Again)?

Our second IUI trial resulted in another negative result.

So now, Jin and I have to make a decision: Do we give IUI another try and hope that the third time’s the charm for us? Or do we move on to IVF?

I’m pretty sure most people who reached this point has said the same, but I truly NEVER thought that I would find myself in this place.

We have a doctor appointment tomorrow morning, and there’s a small part of me that’s just tired. I don’t want the invasive ultrasounds anymore. I don’t want to go through the hope->excitement->letdown cycle anymore. How many more of this will I have to go through?

How much is this all going to cost us???

Everyone tells you how expensive it is to raise a child… but no one ever told me how expensive it would be to get pregnant with one. Jin is quite a frugal man, so whenever he talks about our budget and savings, and how he would like to be saving more, how he wants to save as much as possible as soon as possible so that we can buy a house and start FULLY saving for retirement… chunks of my heart are consumed by guilt.

I think it would be different if I was able to get pregnant even once and miscarried. At least I would know that I CAN get pregnant.