My Infertility Woes: Her Epiphany

Friday, March 5, 2010

Her Epiphany

If you all aren't currently following Determined to Have Joy (which is such a great blog name!), please pop over to see her post today called The Epiphany. It's incredibly beautiful & inspiring! I'm saving it along my wall to the right of Favorite Other People's postings to refer back to when I'm in moments of feeling down.

On the weekend front, I'm excited to see my nephews (ages 6 & 2) tomorrow. Infertile Mind has inspired me a couple of weeks ago to be a more 'present' aunt, so I'm looking forward to putting that into action tomorrow!

Happy Friday & hope you have fun plans for the weekend!

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ShanelMarch 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Thank you soooooooooo much and I just pray that God uses me in the blog world and otherwise to help people and comfort people... Lord knows we can't make it in this world alone... love you blog friend!
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Terry ElisabethMarch 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Have fun with your nephews !
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rebeccaMarch 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM
Thank you for sharing, you're right that was an incredibly inspiring post!
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A Little About Me

This is just a snippet of me in one slice of my life - live in the DC area, 44 yrs old, been married to B. for 13 wonderful years. Had been ttc for 7 years with a total of 10 miscarriages/bio-chemical pregnancies, none making it to week 6; we have 1 child through surrogacy and was on a sibling journey with surrogacy to build our family, with one failed sibling surrogacy journey resulting in 2 early miscarriages, and another surrogate with 2 negative results and lost a pregnancy at 14.5 weeks with our last embryo. Feeling out being resolved as a family with one child.

Total summary, with surrogates:

-12 years

-11 miscarriages total between me and our surrogates

-8 negative cycles

Here's our history:

2009/2010 - 3 IUIs resulting in 2 miscarriages (1 ectopic)

2010 - fibroid surgery

2010/2011 - 2 natural pregnancies followed by miscarriage (1 ectopic)

2012 - 2 fresh IVFs (1 pregnancy followed by ectopic miscarriage and removal of left tube), 3 failed FETs

2013 - 4th FET included PGD genetic testing on embryos resulted in miscarriage at 5 1/2 weeks, 1 IVF with PGD testing resulting in negative test. 1 IVF with just 1 genetically normal embryo without a transfer (waiting for more embryos). Another cancelled IVF because of a leading follicle.

2014 - 1 egg retrieval with PGD testing resulting in 1 normal embryo; 1 transfer with 2 PGD tested embryos, pregnant for 2 days followed by miscarriage. Took methotrexate and took 6 weeks for hcg to get back to 0. Another egg retrieval/embryo creation/PGD test resulting in 2 viable embryos at new clinic out of state for our last chance. Also got treated for immu.nology factors (natural killer cells) at a clinic in Tor.onto (treatment for this is not approved in the US).

2015, part 1 - transferred 2 PGD tested embryos, used hepa.rin. Bio-chemical pregnancy. Not viable. Game over. 2015, part 2 - Explored adoption and surrogacy options. After months and months of not knowing what to do, surrogacy felt the most right. Did 2 egg retrievals to produce embryos. Genetically tested them. We have 6 in the freezer!

2016 - Found a surrogate through an agency but that didn't work out which was hard to start all over again and then L came out of the blue, my brother's friend who wanted to do this for us. We transferred 1 embryo on Oct 24 and she is pregnant!

2017 - Expecting a baby through surrogacy! D is born July 7!

2018 - 1 miscarriage at 5 weeks in Sept with surrogate #2 for sibling journey; 1 positive home test for FET #2 that ended in miscarriage at 5 1/2 weeks as well

2019 - two BFNs our sister-in-law for surrogate #3 followed by a 14.5 pregnancy loss with no embryos left to try

It's been a lot of heartache through it all the trying to conceive and build a family. It took a lot of hope and a community of supporters for me... and ultimately a different path... and we may be yet on a different path if we continue to pursue a sibling for our child.

You can read more on the About Me tab along the top of my blog. Thanks for being here with me.

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