Bachelor Nation’s Haley Ferguson Opens Up About ‘Emotionally Draining’ Failed IUI Attempt

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Haley Ferguson and Oula Palve have navigated fertility struggles throughout their first year of marriage.“The last time I had talked to you guys, I had a hysteroscopy to remove a polyp [in my uterus] and since then I have been in the process of starting IUI,” the Bachelor alum, 30, said in a Thursday, June 15, TikTok video while doing her makeup. “IUI is kind of like the first step they offer you before doing IVF, it’s kind of a way to help trigger ovulation and get the timing right for everything.”Ferguson — who wed the pro hockey player, 31, in June 2022 — revealed that she has already undergone her first round of intrauterine insemination (IUI), for which she was proscribed letrozole and progesterone. “Sadly, it did not work out,” she noted. “But I am going to go for another round … and hopefully it will be round two for us that will be successful.”The Bachelor in Paradise alum — who became a first-time aunt in May after twin Emily Ferguson gave birth to son Beckham — further explained that she tries to remain positive about her fertility journey, but it has been “extremely, extremely emotionally draining” and has taken a toll on her.“The last year trying to conceive has been really, really difficult,” Haley said on Thursday. “Seeing negative pregnancy tests just feels like you’ll never see a positive one.

I’m almost to the point where negative pregnancy tests don’t even faze me anymore, like, ‘Oh, well I saw that one coming. Knew that was going to happen.’”She added: “It gets very draining and it’s just disappointing, but I’m really, really trying to stay super positive for the second round of IUI because your chances, like the success rate, go up a little bit higher on your second or third try.”In order to view the