Today is our 11 year marriage anniversary! I remember the moment we first decided to start trying to conceive our first little muffin.
The hubby and I agreed that 2003 would be the year we would get pregnant. Unfortunately, 2003 came and went ... so did 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Finally, it was Valentines day 2008 when we first found out that we would be parents (a family of our own). After many many many years of fertility treatments and failure .. our dreams were coming true... our daughter was born Oct 2008. The moment we laid eyes on our daughter for the first time felt like we hit the jackpot. She was the most amazing, precious and beautiful little girl we had ever seen. We are so blessed and thank God for our miracle baby girl.
In 2009, we decided it was time to add to our family and thought it would be much easier this time around. My body was recently pregnant and it knew what to do, right?! Wrong! Once again, 2009 passed and so did 2010 with an empty tummy and empty arms. We finally agreed to visit our fertility clinic again in January 2011. We were able to get pregnant on our first round of IUI, but unfortunately ended shortly after the excitement of finding out. We lost our little muffin in March when we were just over 5 weeks pregnant.
April, May, June and July came and went with no more success and hopes were becomming dashed. August brought us new challenges when an IUI cycle went whacko. I had only injected meds for about 5 days when I went for my routine ultrasound and only expected to see 4 or maybe 5 follicles (the sac that contains an egg). Low and behold, I heard the ultrasound tech say "you have hmm about 10-15 on the left ovary and hmmm another 10-15 on the right". She immediately said we needed to cancel this cycle as the chance for multiples with that many follicles was extremely high. To make a long emotional story short, we quickly convinced our RE doctor to convert our IUI cycle into an IVF cycle. Just about one week later, I was smocked up and having my eggs extracted one by one from my ovaries. The pain afterwards was intense, but the 18 mature eggs they captured was worth every tear. We ended up with 5 eggs fertilizing and frozen (we were unable to do a fresh cycle as my hormones were out of whack).
I can remember November 4th, like it was yesterday. It was the day we were bringing our babies back home. It was the day where they would defrost 2 of our babies and place them back where they belong ... inside my tummy.
Then came November 9th, the positive test! I remember tears, prayers, worries and excitement.
I look back at the 11 years we have been married and think what an amazing story. Through thick in thin ... happiness and tears ... here we are ... together, happy and a family.
And in the next few weeks, we will be adding to our dream. God has truly blessed us ... and I'm forever thankful.
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