So I am new to this whole "blogging" concept. When my husband and I first found out that we were going to have to do IVF I hit the blogosphere running. I must say that reading about people's journeys really helped me cope. I thought maybe someone out there could relate to our story so here goes....
I lived my life like every other girl, dreaming of getting married and starting a family... I met the PERFECT man who is the best thing that has ever happened to me. We got married, bought a house, everything was going as planned. We decided we wanted to start trying for a family about 1 year ago and we were ecstatic. We never dreamed we would have problems getting pregnant- but after almost a year of trying with no success our doctor decided to start running some tests. When we got the news that we would not be able to conceive naturally we were obviously shocked and upset- but really tried to stay positive.
One week later we found ourselves sitting in a fertility specialists' office and he told us that IVF was our only option. It has been quite a whirlwind but I am now in Day 5 of my IVF cycle... I spoke with my nurse, ordered my meds...to the tune of $2800 and we are ready to go... Does anyone find it strange that our IVF cycle starts with Birth Control pills... seems ironic doesn't it? Being Lupron injections in 9 days.... Wish us luck...
I have a very similar story to you. The only hope for us to be parents is to use IVF. We have Male Factor Infertility, which we only found out about last year at this time.
ReplyDeleteWe did our first IVF in March, I got pregnant with twins, but lost one at 10 weeks and delivered my baby girl too early at 22 weeks in July. She stayed with us for 2 hours and then grew Angel Wings and went to heaven.
We are going to be doing another IVF round come the Spring.
Good luck on your journey!
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