When my husband (J) and I began thinking about TTC, we never imagined that it would be so difficult. We never expected that having a baby would involve anything other than the two of us behind our closed bedroom door. When we first started to try to get pregnant, 10 years ago, we thought it would be just like "everyone else", you decide when, and then you get a baby 9 months later. It hasn't exactly worked that way.
We tried for over a year before starting to look into why we hadn't been able to get pregnant. We were referred to a fertility clinic in our city, and we both had some testing done. My tests all came back "normal" and J's tests showed that he had an issue in the morphology of his sperm. At that time I believe he had 6% that were considered normal. By then another year and a half had gone by with no positive HPT's, and after the test results, we were told by the fertility Dr. that our only chance of conceiving would be with IVF. I requested instead to do try IUI first and we were given a reluctant go ahead. We were waiting on my cycle to start so that I could begin some medication for the treatment. That was in April 2005. When I realized on Mother's Day that I was "late", I bought a home pregnancy test. When I took it the next morning, I stood there staring, then shaking and then crying at the two pink lines that were staring back at me. We had conceived naturally. Our "surprise" baby girl was born in January 2006.
Now, it's 8 years later, and our daughter is about to celebrate her 7th birthday. She would love to be a big sister and has been asking for a sibling for years. We have been trying and will continue to do everything we can to make that happen for her.
I keep praying for you and your family. I wish I could just wrap you in hugs right now. C is such a miracle after reading that you have the clotting disorder. I have been tested several times for it due to my recurrent miscarriages. I don't have it, but I have heard all about it with the doctors just assuming that I had to have had it or I wouldn't miscarriage like I have. My doctor told me the same thing about heparin as well as baby aspirin. I did try baby aspirin until we found out that instead of a clotting disorder I had a bleeding disorder (that had nothing to do with miscarriages except they were dangerous to my body due to blood loss) and that baby aspirin could cause a miscarriage to be worse, so I stopped. But from so many I have heard great things. Have you talked to your doctor about taking progesterone 2 days past ovulation (or trigger) to help with the lining? I had a short luteal phase so they figured my lining was terrible so we did clomid and progesterone to conceive and keep Olivia's pregnancy. It was still touch and go (don't want that to sound negative) but they seemed to have helped. Anyhow, enough about me, just know that I think of you so so so very often. Love, Christi PS I continue to prayer for your second little miracle.
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