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IVF stories
A very good friend of mine has been struggling trying to get pregnant. She lost one of her fallopian tubes earlier this year, and she has had several IUI's with no success. Her doctor (Dr. Hansard) told her the next step is IVF.
I know there are ladies on here that have been through similar experiences and had success with IVF. I'd like to share some stories with her! If you don't mind sharing what you went through, please email me at mrssnflwr at gmail or you can post here if you want.
Also, if you have a blog or know of someone that has a blog that tells about experiences with IVF, I'd love to share that with her too.
TIA!
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Re: IVF stories
one of my best friends is 30 weeks pregnant right now with twins, after one round of IVF and 7 IUIs. she is an inspirational story and loves sharing her story with other ladies. her blog is here:
https://just-breathe-blog.blogspot.com/
As you can see in my siggie, my twin boys are the result of a successful IVF. We tried to get pregnant for a year with no luck (we did three rounds of Femara/IUI's during that year due to my VERY long cycles). On the 13th month, we were successful but that pregnancy ended in miscarriage due to a blighted ovum. My body thought I was pregnant (great beta levels), but the fetus never developed. After my D&C, we tried again and immediately got pregnant again. That pregnancy ended in an eptopic pregnany that required sugery to remove it from my tubes. At that point, Dr. V recommended IVF since the risk of another eptopic pregnancy was high. And I was ALL for it.
And our first IVF was successful in twin boys who are now 2! I also highly recommend acupuncture. I started it after my IUI's were failures and they were able to get my cycles regulated and within the normal 30 day range. And I firmly believe it was a big contributor to our first IVF being successful. And the doctors are TFC are awesome. She will be in great hands.
Good luck to your friend. It is a tough, tough journey but SO worth it in the end.
I hope I'm not too late to answer. I haven't had fallopian tube problems, but DD is the result of IVF #1.
The short version of our experience:
-Year #1: one year of trying on our own
-Year #2 (in order): 2 rounds of Femara without IUI, IUIs #1, 2, and 3 with Femara, did surgery #1 (laparoscopy/hysteroscopy) which discovered stage 3 endometriosis, did IUI's #4, 5, and 6 with Femara, and then did IUIs #7, 8, and 9 with gonal-f (an injectable med).
-Year #3 (in order): surgery #2 (repeat laparoscopy/hysteroscopy) which found stage 2 endo (not as bad but it had only been a few months), IUI #10 with gonal-f resulted in pregnancy #1, pregnancy #1 ended in a missed miscarriage/D&C at 9 weeks, did one more round of Femara without IUI on the first cycle we could try again, then IUI #11 with gonal-f, and then (finally) IVF #1.
IVF#1 resulted in DD#1 (pregnancy #2). All told, we were trying for about 33 months before I became pregnant with DD#1.
I got pregnant with this little one (pregnancy #3) when DD#1 was four months old. It was cycle #3 of not trying but not preventing. We call it our surprise/unexpected pregnancy--but not unplanned because we knew there was a possibility that our successful pregnancy with DD had pushed a "reset button" in my body.
Two years ago (June/July of 2009), I was absolutely hopeless that I'd ever be a mother or that fertility treatments would work. Now, I am very close to being a mother of two little girls and can't quite believe how much everything has changed.
I went through a lot of very hard and very difficult times while we were going through the years of trying and fertility treatments.
We did wait a long time to move to IVF because of ethical concerns we had about extra embryos. We were very worried that we would have too many to use but finally decided that we would donate any extras to other couples. As it turned out, I had nothing to freeze and this was not an issue.
Please tell your friend to hang in there. It's really scary being in the middle of treatments and being told to do IVF. IVF seemed like the end of the road, but it did work, and I am so glad to have DD#1.
However, I am a big advocate of waiting until you are "ready" for the next level of treatment. We took the time we needed to be "ready" and felt like we gave IUIs and lesser treatments many chances to work.