So much information!!

Well we are back from our short trip to Toronto, and the end result was not what we expected but still good news.  We met with probably the nicest Doctor I have ever met and I work in a hospital.  He is a reproductive specialist that works at TCART, and he spent 3 hours with us explaining all the processes and options available to us.  J got an ultrasound to check her ovaries and uterus, everything looks good except there was something odd with her left tube.  He wants J to have a hysterosalpngogram or Sonohystergram to ensure that both tubes are open.  After we spoke about all the options, the Doc suggested that we start with IUI instead of going straight to IVF.  He said that because J's uterus is looking good, and because she is still young it would be good to try this first.  Next cycle J needs to get blood work on day 3, and if everything looks good with that and if her left tube isnt blocked then we are good to try the cycle after that.  For the first try we are going to travel back to Ontario, we are going to use Letrozole for egg stimulation and we will have to be in Ontario for 4 days for the IUI.  We picked out possible sperm donors last night, we decided to go through Xytex because they have a good list of Canadian ccompliant donors.  We are well on our way, I dont think I will ever be more excited for J's period to come....I am counting down the days

Why is the beginning never the beginning?

I guess introductions are in order, myself "E" am a 28 year old that has the most wonderful wife "J" who is 32 and we are starting our journey in growing our family. We met five years ago and became good friends but I was seeing someone else at the time. "J" told me that the first time she saw me she knew that we would eventually end up together, and here we are married for almost a year! (High five for J being persistent!!!). Currently we live in Saskatoon Saskatchewan, but we are both originally from Ontario. We came here for work but do plan to move back to Ontario in a year or so.

I thought it would be a good idea to start this blog to help us document what we are about to go through with this journey and maybe it will help others that are in our situation. The internet is where I go to for most of my research and I enjoy reading about other couples and their experiences. I can't remember how many times I have written the the Google search bar "Canadian Lesbians TTC", I sure Google remembers me and thinks "not her again...". I wanted to write this with a Canadian perspective, I have accumulated a lot of knowledge from other blogs written from American lesbians but I have had a hard time finding the Canadian support.

So we are not far into our TTC journey, we decided it was time to start thinking about the process in April 2010. We started looking up info in the web, spoke to our family physician, we both got physicals done, and of course we started drooling over all the cute baby clothes and gear. We decided that J would carry the first baby due to her being a bit older then me (her clock is ticking so loud I am sure the neighbors can hear). We started charting temperatures every morning and decided that we would do that for a few months and see where we are then. I made a phone call to the fertility clinic here in town to see how fast we could get in. I guess fast isnt the word I should use, the receptionist informed me that there is a 13 month wait....I was floored, I am sure she could hear my heart break over the phone. After about a week of J and I moping around we remembered that "Rome wasn't built in a day", and everything good is worth waiting for, and in the meantime we were going to look at all the options available to us. We looked at all the Canadian companies that will send sperm nation wide to try and make a budget on how much we should expect to pay for this adventure, and I realized one thing....I should get into the sperm business! We went the next few months just charting temperatures and trying not to get too excited. October rolled around and I had a bit of a freak out and decided that there was no way I could be responsible for a little life, heck I can barely remember to pay my cell phone bill on time. And we decided that we would wait a bit and revisit the baby idea in the new year. Which brings us to about now, we are back on track...I am getting better at paying the cell phone bill and we are ready to figure this out again. Temperatures are being taken, we have contacted Repromed in Toronto to get info on the Home Insemination Program, and we are back drooling over baby furniture, clothes, and accessories.

I guess that is all for now but I will update as we continue on.