I was laying there feet in stirrups, legs wide open as 3 people tried to figure out how to get a catheter in my cervix.

That was what today’s IUI was like and through my discomfort all I could do was laugh. If this is the cycle I get pregnant, it will be an amusing story to tell my child of how s/he was conceived.

For the 3 IUI’s I’d had prior to today (2 last cycle and 1 yesterday) I had the same nurse. During the 1st IUI she had some issues and it took maybe 10 minutes of her trying and moving the speculum around to get it to work. The other 2 times it took all of 1 minute.

Today I had another nurse. She was having trouble inserting the catheter and while completely friendly, at first I thought that she just didn’t have the patience the other nurse had had. She tried for a little bit and then got a different catheter she said might bend more easily. Then she changed the speculum. She said some women have what would seem to be 2 openings in their cervix with one being a dead end. After no success, she said she was going to get a doctor to assist.

Ten minutes later, in walks the nurse, doctor and medical student (it’s a teaching practice). The doctor pulled up my last ultrasound to get a feel for what he might be dealing with and said I had a wavy entrance to my uterus. He continued with “It would be fun for sledding but not for this.” All I could then think of was the sperm sledding into the uterus!

Then I found myself with all three of them in front of me trying different catheters. They even ended up giving me local anesthesia. What could take minutes took half and hour, but I walked out with the IUI completed and a good story to tell.

I’m hoping it means good luck for this cycle!