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" You can thank Yogi Berra for the title of my post. Also, Mook wants me to be sure and tell you that I did not know this fact until he told me so ... ahhh, men. ;0)  The reason I&amp;#039;m using this title: we met with our RE on Monday, and at this exact time last year was our very first meeting with him. I had so hoped that I would be walking into a pediatrician&amp;#039;s office instead of our RE again, but there we were. I felt a bit nostalgic walking through the doors on Monday morning \u2014 the memories of the innocence and hope that I felt in April 2007 came flooding back. It was the feeling of d\u00E9j\u00E0 vu ... all over again.  I finally got the nerve last Monday to call and set up this appointment \u2014 and it was one of those moments that I hadn&amp;#039;t planned, but the adrenaline was pumping and I was ready to ask those questions I had been so nervous to ask. I had to leave a message, but our IVF nurse was very proactive in calling me back AND getting us a meeting with the RE. This is one of the reasons I love the smaller clinic environment.  Our biggest question was: WHY didn&amp;#039;t the first time work? Oh wouldn&amp;#039;t it be lovely if they could answer that with a clear concise answer. I know that someday they will be able to....just wish someday was today. So knowing that we can&amp;#039;t pinpoint the exact answers it didn&amp;#039;t work, we wanted to look at the answers we might be able to find. We discussed chromosome testing \u2014 our RE thinks with our age and our family history that it does not warrant doing this. We moved on to discussing a more likely option: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). We are still undecided on both \u2014 I&amp;#039;m absorbing all information I can find and read!  We also discussed some of the testing we have done in the past \u2014 and things we may need to redo. First, we will have Mook do another semen analysis. We got a count from the IVF cycle in July last year, but it did not report the morphology or motility. The last urologist we saw did not deal with infertility at all, so we were able to get a referral from our RE for a urologist that deals specifically with male factor infertility. Along with the SA, we will ask how beneficial herbal supplements are for Mook at this point. I wish we had known to do this last year! By the end of the meeting, our RE reassured us that he did feel that IVF would work for us. I want so much to believe this \u2014 it&amp;#039;s just hard when we were given a 70-80% success rate for our first cycle. How can you rely on statistics for something like this? I guess you just have to be willing to try.... And we are willing.... Before we left the appointment, they went ahead and tested my AMH levels (something they did not test for last time) They did do an FSH test, which came back within the normal range. The nurse said more and more clinics are doing this as an initial test \u2014 be sure to ask about it if you are going forward with an IVF cycle. They claim it looks further into the levels of your ovarian reserve.  Based on these results and Mook&amp;#039;s semen analysis, we may move forward with cycling as early as May! My cycle days and their IVF calendar will fall right in line. We are definitely taking a few days to decide if we are prepared to start again. We have a few things to consider: finances being a BIG thing, if we are emotionally ready....  So the ball has begun to roll ... I will keep you all posted as we think through things, and as always, feel free to ask questions \u2014 as I find out more, you&amp;#039;ll know more! PS It&amp;#039;s a bit comical, but also hard: As I write this, we are watching an episode of Family Guy where Peter and Lois decide they want to try for another baby...and Stewie screams: &amp;quot;WHAT!?&amp;quot; I want to scream that a lot when I hear another pregnancy announcement....  PSS: Friday isn&amp;#039;t that far away ... you know what that means. Time for another (in) Fertility Friday Five! Get your questions/requests to me! Also, to those of you who have e-mailed me, be sure to check your spam filters, as I have e-mailed everyone back that I have received a message from. Just want to be sure you receive your response! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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