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DH Karl and I were married in Jan 2004 after 2 years together and almost 6 years as friends. I was formerly married and had had three beautiful children by my previous husband - Ariani, who is now 15, Shay, who is 14, and Zaki, who is 11.
Not long after having Zaki, I had a tubal ligation. In Aug 2000, my marriage broke up and I started looking into having the procedure reversed. I had always wanted more children.
Karl finally got up the courage to ask me out Feb 2001 and in July 2001, when I finally had my ligation reversed, Karl and I started trying for a baby. We knew even then, after only 6 months together, that this was what we wanted.
After two years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive, and a few months after our wedding, Karl and I decided to find out if something had gone wrong with the reversal. After a battery of tests, it was determined that the my tubes had completely scarred over from the repeated operations.
We were told that IVF would be our only hope, and everyone we encountered said that as I'd had no trouble falling pregnant previously, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with Karl, that IVF would soon succeed for us.
Unfortunately, this did not turn out to be true. Karl and I underwent 13 months of injections, Egg Pick Ups, Transfers and failures. We underwent 4 unsuccessful IVF cycles and 3 unsuccessful Frozen Embryo Transfers from June 2004 to July 2005, not once registering even the slightest possibility of a pregnancy in all that time. We stimulated well, had a good amount of eggs, transferred 2 excellent embryos routinely, yet no one could explain why it wasn't working. This began a slow realisation that we may never have a child between us.
In July 2005, we did our 5th stimulated cycle. At this point, both Karl and I were living and breathing IVF and we knew it couldn't go on forever. We both sat down together towards the end of the Two Week Wait and talked about how I didn't feel any different, and had not one pregnancy symptom. We both were sure this cycle, like all the others, hadn't worked. We planned our next cycle and debated on how much longer we could continue with the emotional and financial strain of IVF. It was our 8th Assisted Conception cycle, how much more failure could we take?
Then a miracle happened. The results of an early blood test took us both by surprise. Karl called the clinic on the day of the fateful blood test for the expected "sorry, nothing again" but instead, got the surprise of his life!
We are pregnant!
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