Fresh Never Frozen: Update

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Update

My medications remain unchanged and I'm doing acupuncture once a week for pregnancy support now. We are anxiously anticipating our first ultrasound on Monday! This has been the longest week ever!;) In a few weeks I will begin to wean off my steroids and hormones, which will be so nice! My days still have to be planned around my medications being administered on time. Pregnancy after IVF is definitely nothing like a natural pregnancy. As my doctor said, they don't want to "rock the boat" once we get to this point so the first trimester includes a continuation of several of the IVF medications. My morning blood thinner injection is making me so tired! My mister does it before he leaves for work, and I'm usually dead to the world when he leaves. I'm also feeling yucky in the mornings, so most mornings I try to go back to bed. It looks like I will not get to wean off the blood thinner any time soon, but I'm hoping I can start giving it to myself and gradually make the time later. Sleeping in will help a lot too as my morning sickness gets worse. I still can't believe I'm pregnant and even took another pregnancy test on Monday just for reassurance. Still positive!;) Hopefully, Monday will come quickly and we can finally officially celebrate and start to relax.

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Our Infertility Journey

In 2007, right after our daughter was born via a very easy VBAC delivery (vaginal delivery after a c-section), we were wanting another baby. Not right away, but eventually.;) We really never prevented pregnancy and in 2009 we had a surprise pregnancy, followed shortly by an early miscarriage. This was my first miscarriage, so I was not too concerned since women seem to have them all the time. By 2010, after really "trying" to conceive nothing was happening. My ob/gyn prescribed a little clomid to get the ball rolling but nothing happened. Then, we added in several months of IUI's (aka artificial inseminations), which also never worked. We were feeling discouraged and did further testing to find out that my mister has a severely decreased morphology putting us in the 1% chance range of conceiving naturally. The summer of 2010 he had a varicocele repair surgery in an attempt to fix his problem. There is only a 50/50 success rate for the surgery and we ended up in the 50% that do not respond to the surgery. We took a break from everything for a while, had a 10 year anniversary trip to Maui with a little Clomid and got pregnant. At the 8 week ultrasound there was no longer a heartbeat and I miscarried for the second time. At the beginning of 2011, we decided to take things a step further and consult with specialists. We decided to pull out the big guns after being told we'd easily conceived doing IVF with ICSI with chromosomal screening. The IVF cycle was hard and didn't go as well as planned. We ended up with only one little boy embryo who was genetically perfect. We were thrilled at the news and even had positive pregnancy tests following a frozen embryo transfer. Shortly after, I miscarried for the third time. I got very depressed and had my first experience with situational depression. Months later after a visit with my doctor, a terrible visit with an adoption agency, the clouds lifted, and we decided to try IVF one last time. I knew there was no way I could do it a third time physically and we certainly couldn't do it again financially, so our second chance was our last chance. There were many set backs as we had to cancel the second cycle after discovering a suspicious (as in cancer suspicious) ovarian cyst right before preparations for our embryo retrieval. I had surgery and everything turned our fine, but we were feeling discouraged as the cancer scare was terrifying and we had to wait 4 months before returning our focus back to IVF round 2. Round 2 didn't go exactly as planned, but the end result included the transfer of two great looking embryos. I'm certain that I will hold a baby again one day, and only then will we be able to say that the journey was all worth it!