In Her Own Words...A Success Story

Here is my story!  I just turned 37 this year, but have been trying to conceive since I was 29. Since 2000 we have done a total of 10 procedures. 4 IUI's in 2000 w/my OBGYN, which all were negative so I had him refer me to a specialist. In 2001 we attempted our 1st IVF 1/01 that was negative, our 2nd attempt 4/01 was positive but ended up in miscarriage, actually they called it a chemical pregnancy.  So again we attempted yet a 3rd IVF, which I had to cancel due to a very bad response to the Meds and we ended up doing an IUI cycle, which was negative.  We took a long break and 4/2002 attempted the 3rd IVF and it worked but only to miscarry at 6 weeks.  We saw the baby but there was no heartbeat.  Talk about being devastated! I thought for sure that was it but in wasn't. 

I didn't mention earlier but I was struggling with Egg quality issues and a high FSH Level.  My DR. wouldn't do another IVF cycle unless we used Donor Eggs, which I wasn't ready for.  So I went and got a 2^nd opinion with another specialist and we decided to go with him. 

So last year we attempted our 4^th IVF cycle w/no luck and we attempted another one in July but had to cancel because the pharmacy gave me one Medication that was wrong and it threw off the whole thing.  So our 5^th attempt was in September.  This was going to be our last. 

My body was just giving up and I was not producing enough eggs (follicles).  My first ultra sound I only had 2 which is not very much compared to the 6 I was normally getting on my 1^st appt.  This was on the Max dose of Meds he could give me. 

Anyway, I just told him “I know what I’m up against and this is going to be my last try, Can we still go ahead w/the 2 that I have?”  He said if they were still there on my next visit yes.  So they were still there and on September 30^th they took the 2 eggs out and only 1 fertilized. 

On October 3 2003 they put the 1 embryo back in.  Dr. only gave me 15% chance of getting pregnant.  I told him that was fine I know what I’m dealing with.  To DH’s surprise and mine this was it. 

I can’t tell you how negative I was about the whole thing.  I was soooo ready to just move on and call it quits.  I was just at peace with myself knowing we had tried everything to have a child of our own and I knew my body was giving up on me and that there was no way the Dr. was going to do another cycle. 

So when we got the Positive results I was shocked!  Although still scared since I had 2 positive results before only to end in miscarriage.  So we waited for our actual 6 week ultra sound that I just dreaded going to. I was so nervous and scared.

10/30/03 was the first ultra sound and we saw the heart beat!  I just died!!!!  I cried and cried!  I've never seen my  Dr. so happy! LOL!!  I think he was happier than DH was! LOL!  DH was crying!  We just couldn’t believe it! The next time I went in for blood work to make sure my #'s were going up, I told that I had never seen him so happy before. (DR.) She was like you know he was really choked up with you, when you walked out of our office, he says "There goes my Miracle Patient!"  

So now here I am with only 5 weeks to go!  I had the nurse crying when I told her “You know I have always believed in Miracles, I just never thought it would happen to me”.  Of course the nurse was reminding me of how I didn’t even want to do that cycle!  I said I know I was so negative!  Actually I had stampin on the brain.  I became a Stampin Up Demonstrator and that’s all I thought about doing.  LOL!!!!