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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - we're also a same sex couple who started at Shady Grove many years ago. We used a known donor and had a finite amount of sperm, and we did multiple IUIs before no success and moving on to IVF. My wife was 28 when we started, so we had plenty of reason to think an IUI would do the trick. Well, it didn't, and we both feel pretty resentful over the amount of sperm we wasted on those IUIs because we were doing two per cycle and even reached a point later down the road when we thought we'd run out of sperm (getting more from our KD isn't an option at this point or ever).

We lucked out and my wife was accepted into an IVF clinical trial in NYC when we were looking to move on from IUIs to IVF. She did mini IVF, got one embryo, and he's now 6.5. When we started back for a second, we returned to Shady Grove, but didn't have success and they didn't really change her protocol despite a few abysmal cycles. We moved on to Cornell and had success there with a second child born in 2017. We're currently working with Cornell again to try for a third using leftover embryos.

All this is to say, I think you should move on from IUI to IVF. I wish someone had told us this sooner. I would consider doing shared risk if you don't have IVF coverage, and it seems like you'd be an ideal candidate.[/quote]

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