My transfer day was amazing. Cliff, my mom, and Cliffs mom were all out of town on the day of the transfer so the person who accompanied me was Cody. Yes, I am referring to my teddy bear as a person. 🐻 I was 100% fine going through the transfer with just Cody and here’s the crazy reason why… After looking back at the last 2 1/2 years, I feel like I have come a long way. I am a strong person but in the beginning, I am not sure I would have been capable of doing that alone. The ability to go through the transfer on my own was a big deal to me. I was able to prove to myself how strong I have become in this journey. Having people to lean on is absolutely, without a doubt, a necessity when dealing with infertility. But this, I needed to do alone.Continue Reading
It’s Gonna Be Okay!
This Christmas I was given an unexpected gift. Now I wish I could tell you that I found out we were pregnant.. but nope that’s not it (bummer right??) Before Christmas I had blood work done to prepare for IVF and it came back with elevated hormone levels so they wanted to recheck. When the next set of blood work I did a few days later came back with the same high levels, they told me we couldn’t start IVF for at minimum a month so they could get those hormones under control and normal. Due to the fact that I have never had this problem in the 2 years of blood work I’ve done, my doc Continue Reading
I’m going to need more glitter for this update…
There is no easy way to start this one so I’m just going to jump right in.. after healing from the 3rd surgery, we have had 5 months of trying to get prego with fertility treatments. All unsuccessful.. obviously.. So we have now officially jumped on the IVF bandwagon. Our doctor is getting concerned that if we wait too much longer, my fibroids will start coming back in a way that will prevent pregnancy and the last thing I want to do is have surgery #4.
Over the past few days we have been telling our friends and family that we are starting prep for IVF and I got the same first questionContinue Reading
Here We Go!
If someone told me 2 years ago that I would be starting an infertility blog, I would have told them they were crazy. I am not anything close to a writer and typically follow my own set of rules for things like punctuation! Why in the world would I write a blog??
Well.. my husband and I began trying for kids in December 2015 and were thrown head first into the heartbreaking world of infertility. I was diagnosed with a severe case of fibroids, PCOS, and excessive bleeding. We never saw it coming and were not prepared for anything that was about to happen to us. But we had each other. So together we started on this insane adventure that began with a doctor telling us they needed to remove my uterus.
Our infertility journey is still Continue Reading