We LOVE Our Doc!

We've gone to an OBGYN, we suffered through being lectured by Dr. Grandpa, we have lied to the fertility clinic and faced even more lying if we want access to having an IUI seven days a week, we have had our ability to manage our own risk questioned, we have faced a limited schedule for IUI because we want our TTC journey to be one of honesty.

Because we are using a known donor we constantly face limited choices and difficult decisions.

We went to see our family practice doc today, the one we've been seeing for seven years. She wanted to talk to us before giving us a prescription for Clomid. She also encouraged us to try IUI and we told her how difficult it's been. Then she says...

"Well, I can do it here."

After all we've been through, our doctor just blurts out that she'd be willing to do the IUI and will write the order so we can have DtD's semen washed. AND...she'll show M. how to do it so we can do IUI over the weekends. She'll give us a speculum and the IUI catheters. No additional STD testing. No additional questions. No harassment over using a known donor. No signing of liablity waivers.

She and the other docs had JUST noticed a whole drawer full of IUI catheters sitting around the office. Then we walk in...hmmmmmmm....

Did I mention that we LOVE our doc.

I swear, you get what you need in life but sometimes it takes some time and then you find things in the most unexpected places. Our doc is family practice and happens to deliver babies. We never thought she would do IUI, and she doesn't normally. But she's struggled with infertility herself, she's watched us go through our own TTC journey and she understands that much of what we're facing is rooted in homophobia. Finally we both felt supported and understood.

I cried when we left. For the first time in a long time I felt all this tension leave my body, and the first time in a week I cried because I'm happy.