Another day.....lots of dollars

It's been awhile since I posted an update. We took the month of May off from fertility treatment to think about what our next step should be. We met with Dr. N this week to discuss our options. He talked to us a lot about odds and percentages of success. He was very willing to do whatever we wanted. We have had three unsuccessful medicated cycles at this point. Dr. N said that we could try a couple more cycles this way if we liked but our odds would still only be 6% per cycle. The other option he presented was in vintro. This is something we have really been praying about because we knew at some point we may be faced with this decision. We both feel we are ready to move to this step. Although it is much more involved and pricey (hence the lots of dollars in the title), it also offers the best chance at success. The success rate for a single cycle of in vitro for someone my age is around 60%. Ten times the rate of success for IVF versus our current method of treatment. I like those odds. Though we are proceeding cautiously optimistic, I do feel very hopeful. I will not go into the specifics of IVF for the non fertility friendly readers in this post. I will get into that more later. On Thursday we have a phone consultation with the IVF doctor who is in St. Louis. After this I feel like we will know for sure what the next few months will hold. I will post an update after this meeting. In the meantime we would appreciate your prayers that we make the right decision.