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A healthy baby after years of infertility.....
Hello everyone...what a sweet and caring bunch you all are, supporting each other through the trials of TTC. I have been through a lot of what you all are going through and want to try to tell you my story to give some of you hope. I want to post this as a question, then tell you my story as a post in the answer section. I hope this works!
Wow God bless You for your miracle. I was crying from joy, and hope as I read your story. It is just what I and all the other sad souls needed to hear. It is true then that what is meant to be will be in God's time and not our own, and in His way not th way we planned or expected. Thank You so much.
OMG, what an AWESOME post! Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. As "science" as all of this is, miracles do happen and someone's watching.
What a story. I have been going through infertility for the past 6y ears and no luck. I kind of feel like I am in that story. I will be able to take yet another pregnancy test on 1-21-07 and hoping and praying that it is positive.
Thank you for your insperation and words not to give up.
Thank you for your insperation and words not to give up.
it took me 16 years to get pregnant. i tried clomid, pergonal, prayers, you name it...nothing. i just turned up pregnant one month. no drugs, just sex. he is 10 years old now. took me another 8 years to get my daughter, born when i was 43. no drugs, just good loving. then a few months ago, bfing, no periods yet, got pregnant from pullout. WOW! lost that baby. sad.
(typing with one hand as daughter is nursing)
(typing with one hand as daughter is nursing)
hi there. your story was really touching. iam 27 yrs old a homoeo doc by profession. i am childless since 3 1/2 yrs. Undergone surgery twice but no conception, This time we have tried IVF. I'm in my 2ww. Your story really helped me to face what ever the out come is
God Bless
Pray for me
God Bless
Pray for me
thank you for sharing your story. this is what we need right now, now that some of us are still waiting for our Miracles..it gives me hope & patience.
May God bless you always and all of us here.
May God bless you always and all of us here.
Thank you for sharing your story. It truly is a miracle. It helps though of us that are TTC realize it doesnt always happen when we want...I had my pregnancy planned out to a T...as Im a teacher and needed to deliver before the school year ended to get a few extra months at home. It worked exactly how I planned from exactly when we conceived to what song was playing to our due date around our b day (dh and I have the same b day) and then we got the bad news. I feel silly when I read stories like your of what others have gone through and realize I have to keep my head up things arent so BAD:) Thanks for your story. Sticky baby dust to all.
Boy did i need to hear your story. I'm up in age and i have been losing hope. but it's funny how when you start to feel like there is no hope i hear stories like yours I don't have pcos but i did have my tubes removed because they were so severly scared and infected and they said ivf is my only hope i have so much against me age and all i'm 40 and ihave been trying activly for 6 yrs now i pray for my mirical every day thank you for your story.
That was a great story. I can't believe what you have gone throug. YOur story gave me hope. I truely thought it wasn't going to happen but with your story I had a little more hope today thank you.
Thank you sooo much for your beautiful story.... I have unexplained infertility but I can see where I fit your story (in part)..... we have only been ttc for 2 years and that is nothing compared to what you went through... I am really ecited that you got your baby!!! What a great inspirational story....May God Bless You!!!!
Jacquie
Jacquie
wow this amazing to read your story.... just when i had lost hope...if i every going to be a mom....i read urs and i just reassured myself that miracles do happen.... well i guess sometimes it takes time!!
thanks so much for taking the time and sharing the story with all of us....where we need such positive things and not loose hope in life. thank you so much!!!!
thanks so much for taking the time and sharing the story with all of us....where we need such positive things and not loose hope in life. thank you so much!!!!
This is truly an inspiring story. It gives us all hope that miracles still do happen. I am just waiting on mine. Sometimes you feel hopeless, but we just got to hold on.
Anyway, I wanted to ask your permission. I send out a monthly newsletter to ethnic women and I plan on putting some articles about infertility in there. This is a MIRACULOUS story and was wondering if I can use it? It's okay if your anser is no, but I think it can help so many people. My personal email is ***@****. Let me know what you think. I'm also doing one on the hubby and I (Confessions of an Infertile Couple). I think it would be greatly enhanced if I added your story as a second article. If you have email, I can send you articles done so far, but they have been really lite (beauty products, fashion do's and don'ts). I didn't know what direction I wanted to go in, but I want to talk about EVERYTHING!!!
Anyway, I wanted to ask your permission. I send out a monthly newsletter to ethnic women and I plan on putting some articles about infertility in there. This is a MIRACULOUS story and was wondering if I can use it? It's okay if your anser is no, but I think it can help so many people. My personal email is ***@****. Let me know what you think. I'm also doing one on the hubby and I (Confessions of an Infertile Couple). I think it would be greatly enhanced if I added your story as a second article. If you have email, I can send you articles done so far, but they have been really lite (beauty products, fashion do's and don'ts). I didn't know what direction I wanted to go in, but I want to talk about EVERYTHING!!!
Thank you so much for your words. I am going through my miracle right now, although not nearly as miraculous as your story, but still a miracle from God to me. I just got my BFP after finding out the reason I never have a period is because my estrogen was low, I don't O, and in addition to that, my husband has a pituitary tumor which is supposed to lower his sperm count. Well, months of medication for him and one unbelievable and incredible month of meds for me and we're pg. Of course, I'm frightened. I'm having my progesterone checked tomorrow to make sure it's high enough (my sister-in-law miscarried when she took the ovulation-inducing drug because her prog was low and she is all over me to get it tested...great idea I think). I know the nurses at the clinic I go to think I'm crazy, and I don't care. I don't know why they wouldn't test prog in every woman pg for the first time. Why wait for them to miscarry one? Just doesn't make sense. Anyway, you are so sweet to tell your inspiring story. I think what we all need is hope that miracles and good things do happen.
I was drawn here recently after I had visited the gastro-enterology section for a problem I have, because until 5 years ago, this site is exactly where I would have spent every waking hour of my journey through infertility to motherhood, sharing hopes and tears and seeking advice from other women in the same position.
My story has a happy outcome so I want to tell you about my experience in the hope that it will give encouragement and hope to those with PCOS, those who have blocked tubes or faulty ovarian function, anyone whose DH has a low sperm count and anyone who thinks "it will never be me".
I was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovaries)when I was 21. Later on, when I was 26,while having a large ovarian cyst removed, a small tumour was found on the other ovary. Right ovary had all cystic tissue removed and the bud left in place to maintain hormone function, left ovary and tube were removed.
I had 3 surgeries in all and at the end of it, was told I would probably never be able to conceive naturally but might be able to have IVF since I had good hormone function in the remaining ovarian bud tissue.
When I got married at age 31 I had a laparoscopy and HSG (Dye flushed through the tube(s) to see if they are viable or not)just to check whether the "probably not" that I had been told was true or whether there was any chance at all of my conceiving. I was told NIL, ZIP, NADA, NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. I had one barely functioning ovary and one totally blocked tube, no dye overspill from the tube showed on the HSG at all.
There were multiple adhesions caused by the surgeries: ovary stuck to the bowel, womb stuck to the bladder and the fallopian tube itself was stuck down and blocked by deep hydrosalpinges (large sticky adhesions in and outside of the tube). So I was told I was infertile and my husband and I accepted it and lived with it for the next 10 years.
I envied every woman who had kids, could not look at any pregnant woman in the street without crying, had to endur pregnant sisters, colleagues, insensitive remarks about when I was going to start a family etc etc...you ladies know the drill! I especially resented all those women who appear to have kids at the drop of a hat and then not look after them properly, or yell at them in the store! It wasn't fair, I would be such a good Mom..I would get so angry when women would complain about morning sickness or backache and think "Oh God I would give ANYTHING to have morning sickness, let it be ME!!"
Despite the verdict of 100% infertility, I was right there with you girls doing the OPT every month, BBT, testing for pg every time AF was half an hour late...I know that merry-go-round so well and I recognise myself in all the worries and concerns I have read here.
My DH and I had already investigated whether we could afford IVF but rejected it - my husband had a low sperm count which made conception significantly less likely, added to my existing problems. I would have gone ahead but he was very unhappy about the whole thing and basically said he couldn't do it. So we just said goodbye finally to the whole idea of being parents.
I still read up a lot about conception and talked to a fertility specialist who gave me all the tips he would give any healthy woman trying to conceive, but warned me I should not expect anything because I would be disappointed.
What happened to me next was a miracle but proved the doctors don't always get it right...and that the body heals itself and functions in ways that we still don't properly understand.
I missed my period.
I realised my bbs were sore and I had indigestion. Had a lot of energy, felt fine so never really imagined I could be pg. I had a cupboard full of HPT's though so went ahead and did one anyway, same as usual. Got a BFP right away. 3 days and 15 HPT's later (LOL!)I started to think I might actually be pg....
Saw the doc who said I'd be around 6 weeks by now & sent me right for an immediate U/S...and that's when I saw that little sac on the monitor and the little blip that shows the heartbeat...and I finally believed it was true. I was coming up to 41 years old and was going to be a Mom after 15 years of infertility.
I had the same fears and worries so many of you are going through...some of you just got your BFP and are stuck there between joy and terror..."What if it's a mistake, what if I lose it, what if it's ectopic". All I can say to you is that it's perfectly normal to feel that way and that fear will probably never leave you right through your 9 months. I never really truly believed my pregnancy was real, even when I had a MAHOOSIVE bump and couldn't see my toes!
I watched for any hint of blood or discharge, examined everything I found in MINUTE detail, worried about every ache and pain, every twitch and twinge.Imagined the tests were from a faulty batch...trust me, I had every base covered!
But it WAS true and I had a beautiful 10lb (yeah,I know...YIKES!) baby boy in 2001, and delivered him naturally (no C-Section for me with all the adhesions and previous surgeries - too risky they said.)I had a very bad tear but hey,I could have cared less!!
So that is my miracle....and if I can have one then so can you.I wish all you lovely ladies here every possible blessing on your road to pregnancy and motherhood...I hope that road is smooth and runs downhill and the wind is at your back. Sending love and light and baby dust to everyone who needs it today....
Clare
My story has a happy outcome so I want to tell you about my experience in the hope that it will give encouragement and hope to those with PCOS, those who have blocked tubes or faulty ovarian function, anyone whose DH has a low sperm count and anyone who thinks "it will never be me".
I was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovaries)when I was 21. Later on, when I was 26,while having a large ovarian cyst removed, a small tumour was found on the other ovary. Right ovary had all cystic tissue removed and the bud left in place to maintain hormone function, left ovary and tube were removed.
I had 3 surgeries in all and at the end of it, was told I would probably never be able to conceive naturally but might be able to have IVF since I had good hormone function in the remaining ovarian bud tissue.
When I got married at age 31 I had a laparoscopy and HSG (Dye flushed through the tube(s) to see if they are viable or not)just to check whether the "probably not" that I had been told was true or whether there was any chance at all of my conceiving. I was told NIL, ZIP, NADA, NEVER GONNA HAPPEN. I had one barely functioning ovary and one totally blocked tube, no dye overspill from the tube showed on the HSG at all.
There were multiple adhesions caused by the surgeries: ovary stuck to the bowel, womb stuck to the bladder and the fallopian tube itself was stuck down and blocked by deep hydrosalpinges (large sticky adhesions in and outside of the tube). So I was told I was infertile and my husband and I accepted it and lived with it for the next 10 years.
I envied every woman who had kids, could not look at any pregnant woman in the street without crying, had to endur pregnant sisters, colleagues, insensitive remarks about when I was going to start a family etc etc...you ladies know the drill! I especially resented all those women who appear to have kids at the drop of a hat and then not look after them properly, or yell at them in the store! It wasn't fair, I would be such a good Mom..I would get so angry when women would complain about morning sickness or backache and think "Oh God I would give ANYTHING to have morning sickness, let it be ME!!"
Despite the verdict of 100% infertility, I was right there with you girls doing the OPT every month, BBT, testing for pg every time AF was half an hour late...I know that merry-go-round so well and I recognise myself in all the worries and concerns I have read here.
My DH and I had already investigated whether we could afford IVF but rejected it - my husband had a low sperm count which made conception significantly less likely, added to my existing problems. I would have gone ahead but he was very unhappy about the whole thing and basically said he couldn't do it. So we just said goodbye finally to the whole idea of being parents.
I still read up a lot about conception and talked to a fertility specialist who gave me all the tips he would give any healthy woman trying to conceive, but warned me I should not expect anything because I would be disappointed.
What happened to me next was a miracle but proved the doctors don't always get it right...and that the body heals itself and functions in ways that we still don't properly understand.
I missed my period.
I realised my bbs were sore and I had indigestion. Had a lot of energy, felt fine so never really imagined I could be pg. I had a cupboard full of HPT's though so went ahead and did one anyway, same as usual. Got a BFP right away. 3 days and 15 HPT's later (LOL!)I started to think I might actually be pg....
Saw the doc who said I'd be around 6 weeks by now & sent me right for an immediate U/S...and that's when I saw that little sac on the monitor and the little blip that shows the heartbeat...and I finally believed it was true. I was coming up to 41 years old and was going to be a Mom after 15 years of infertility.
I had the same fears and worries so many of you are going through...some of you just got your BFP and are stuck there between joy and terror..."What if it's a mistake, what if I lose it, what if it's ectopic". All I can say to you is that it's perfectly normal to feel that way and that fear will probably never leave you right through your 9 months. I never really truly believed my pregnancy was real, even when I had a MAHOOSIVE bump and couldn't see my toes!
I watched for any hint of blood or discharge, examined everything I found in MINUTE detail, worried about every ache and pain, every twitch and twinge.Imagined the tests were from a faulty batch...trust me, I had every base covered!
But it WAS true and I had a beautiful 10lb (yeah,I know...YIKES!) baby boy in 2001, and delivered him naturally (no C-Section for me with all the adhesions and previous surgeries - too risky they said.)I had a very bad tear but hey,I could have cared less!!
So that is my miracle....and if I can have one then so can you.I wish all you lovely ladies here every possible blessing on your road to pregnancy and motherhood...I hope that road is smooth and runs downhill and the wind is at your back. Sending love and light and baby dust to everyone who needs it today....
Clare
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