Let's Get It On...

August 23rd - the day my wife and I received a very special package in the mail. After so much waiting and stress, our sperm was finally here! Something so small could change our life forever, and it sure did. When we received the package, we were so excited that we immediately opened the box to see what was inside. The tank itself kinda looked like a small CO2 tank with a handle. The black lid had a red plastic seal on it keeping the lid closed and locked. They have strict instructions to check that your paperwork matched the seal number. I still have the red plastic seal we cut off, seal number #00518338. Why did I keep it? I wanted to remember and save every little thing about this journey that I could. No matter what happened. Anyways, we saw the tank and we both got teary eyed; it was here, it was real, it was happening.

We stored the tank in Lacey's bedroom until we needed it. Little did we know, it'd be the next day! Saturday, August 24th, 2019 around 4:30PM, I was working and since I hadn't received my positive ovulation test yet I knew I would need to test at work. Kinda awkward but I made it work and I was not expecting a positive but it happened!

Two dark lines!! It was what I assumed felt like seeing a positive pregnancy test. We had the green light to inseminate...is this for real?! I immediately messaged Lacey and said "Babe...I think tonight may be the the night!!!!" I got to leave work early that evening and when I came home, we were both beaming from ear to ear. Lacey already had the table cleaned off and the tank present so we could start the process by letting the sperm thaw out to room temperature. Each tank and purchase from Midwest Sperm Bank comes with exact instructions on what you need to do. Basically, you need to do these two things...

Step 1: Make sure you are wearing gloves because the nitrogen is SO COLD!

Step 2: Set out the vial you want to use and let thaw for 45 minutes.

LOOK HOW TINY!!!

Once the vial is thawed then you can hold it in your hands, between your legs, or even between your boobs to let it get to body temperature. You don't have to do this but we watched a YouTube video where it was done and it sounded like a good idea.

While I was waiting for the sperm to thaw, I was trying to get myself relaxed and calm because I was excited and nervous so I decided to take a nice hot bath! At the last 15 minutes before the vial was ready, I used Pre Seed. It's a lubrication that helps aid sperm to the uterus and also helps protect the sperm by making your vagina more friendly. LOL

Once everything was good to go, we used a 1cc syringe (I bought a pack off Amazon) to get the sperm out of the vial. I was lying down and we got it on. Okay, not really, but I'm sparing y'all the weird and awkward details. After the goods were shot up, I made myself orgasm. This is what is so important when trying to conceive! I mean clearly it can happen without because straight couples get pregnant all the time...HAHA just kidding! #lesbianjoke

But for real, if you orgasm afterwards, it helps carry the sperm to your uterus which increases your chances of getting pregnant. Didn't you learn that in sex ed??

So after all of this, it was past our bedtime so we fell asleep and repeated it all the next morning. Now you don't have to do it twice, you can do just one vial, but when you have a peak in ovulation then you release an egg 12-24 hours from that test. So that's why we did them 12 hours apart so we could cover that entire window of when I would release an egg. August 24th and August 25th were some of the most exciting days of my life thus far. I mean how amazing that my wife and I were able to experience something so precious and amazing that comes natural to heterosexual couples?! We had no expectations of how it would go because pregnancy is never guaranteed and it could go one of two ways.

Luckily it had gone exactly the way we hoped it would go. I was pregnant and knew the morning of Friday, September 6th, 2019. I had never been happier in my life.

We knew these next few months were going to be scary and up in the air but we were over the moon! It actually worked!! On the first try. We were so lucky...I was so lucky, this baby was so lucky.

At least....I felt lucky.

My life; unfiltered, unrefined, and ludicrous.