Eek so iui didn't actually happen until 4:30pm so I am worried it might be too late this month. Will just have to wait and see.
It's different using another clinic, I can't help but compare. They Didn't tell me the count for the million of sperm in the vial or the mobility of them. It's rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things as it has to be good enough to use but I liked knowing last time as it gave me something to google.
Also In the London women's clinic they give you a piece of paper with the physical traits of the sperm that you are about to have put in you ( the ones that are listed on the London sperm bank that you choose from). This gave me assurance it was the same sperm I had picked but in the Hewitt Fertility clinic they have three people check the sperm number matches the one I have purchased. I don't get to check anything. I guess it's a moot point but you don't feel as part of the process.
Finally they make it all a bit more of a hoo haa in the Hewitt Fertility clinic . You go in one room and change into a gown and hat. You then wait. You then go through an anti room to put on covers over your feet/socks/ shoes before going into large treatment room . You have doctor and nurse there. They put music on and seem to rattle lots of wrappers and drawers. Then the third person comes in with the sperm and they all do their checks while you just sit there. At no time do you really get to see / let alone hold their vial of sperm.
Then she puts the speculum in with theatrical air ('pass the speculum, cotton wool - cotton wool??! - the line') then checks I'm not cramping and ok and then dramatic pause before annoucjng she is putting it in ( with a friendly good luck) and then done. The nurse then fussed pulling sheet down over my bits and putting leg bit on and lowering bed. More wrangling of drawers and plastic with low murmur talking because they are not talking to you. They then leave me for five minutes before coming to collect me.
Compare this to London women's clinic
Nurse takes you to small room, hands you vial, tells you that's the sperm. Shows you form and you sign and then you go behind curtain strip down from waist, hop on bed with sheet over you. She comes in curtain and before you finish mentioning the crazy British weather and whether it will rain that afternoon she has put speculum in and squirted sperm in. With an 'all done, good luck' she leaves the room telling you to take as long as you ant and turns the light off.
I much preferred lwc way though if this works I guess it won't matter much.
Fingers crossed for a speedy twot and a bfp with a sticky bean.
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