Getting Pregnant

The first round of tests were over. Time to head back to the GP to find out what was going on with us.

The answer? Nothing. That is to say, all of our test results came back perfectly normal. A good sperm count for him, a good hormone level for me, and yes, confirmation that I did indeed ovulate. The ultrasound turned up nothing unusual apart from the fact that I have a retroverted uterus (it kind of faces backwards) – but that’s quite normal and doesn’t have any impact on fertility.

Time for Dr K to write us a referral to a fertility clinic. There are a few major ones here in our city, but we had already decided our preference, since a friend of my husband’s works as an embryologist at one of them. We figured that having someone “on the inside” couldn’t hurt, especially as otherwise the clinics were all fairly similar. Dr K agreed and wrote us a referral letter explaining the history she’d taken and the results of our tests so far. Basically, here are this lovely young couple who can’t have a baby and we don’t know why.

One thing I hadn’t expected was that getting an appointment at the fertility clinic would take so long. I rang up the following day – nervously – and the first available appointment they had was about three months later. My husband saw this optimistically and said we had three more months to have a good try and he had a good feeling that we’d be cancelling this appointment. Unfortunately, this was the first of his many good feelings that were not quite right.

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