I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Hey girls!!
I wasn't always a very active posted but I did post a few times on these boards and I read a lot as well so I feel compelled to post here and give you guys my journal and updates.

DH and I started trying to conceive in June of 2008 and about 6 months into it I just had a gut feeling that something was wrong.
It turns out that DH has a low sperm morphology (about 4%) and thats the reason we were not conceiving.

Out plan was to do IUIs to help the situation.
After 7 failed medicated IUIs We finally decided to save up some money and move forward with IVF. It was a completely out of pocket cost for us.

When we started the IUIs we were seeing Dr Hershlag in Northshore but I switched to American Fertility and Dr. B after the 3rd IUI. I was just not getting a good vibe from Northshore.

So Dr. B was my doc and he was awesome. I loved that he wasnt pushy at all. He was not pushing for IVF right off the bat. He is so great

Anyway!!!
We finally started the IVF process in August. I was put on the pill for 2 weeks and then was to start meds but ofcourse nothing goes as planned. I made an follie while on the pill and things got extended an additional 2 weeks until they could drain the follie.
After that things were pretty much smooth sailing.
I stimmed for 2 weeks with luveris, gonal f and ganirelix and i was on the verge of hyperstimming.
They were able to retrieve 17 eggs, 11 were mature and 9 fertilized.
all my eggies went to blast and on day 5, 5 of them started to dye off.
2 perfect embies were transfered back to me and 2 were frozen.

We are not 12 weeks pregnant with twins.
Things are going well now but when I was almost 8 weeks I started to bleed A LOT!!! I was terrified when I saw all that blood. I thought it was over. I called Dr. B and he talked me off the ledge and told me to go in the next morning and to relax that night cuz he was SURE that it wasn't coming from the babies.
He was right. It turned out that i had developed a blood clot inside my uterus that started to drain. It was in front of the babies so they were ok but I was on house arrest for 3 weeks because they were scared that pressure might make the clot rupture and cause harm to the babies.
currently the clot is about 1/4 of the size that it was when it started and it is draining very slowly but the babies are doing GREAT!

I wanted to thank each and every one of you girls who helped me though my journey with IF even though you may have not known it.
I pray for all of you guys all the time because I know how hard it is dealing with the issues and disappointing news all the time. But I learned that you just need to keep fighting for what you believe in.

Sorry this is so long but like I said I felt like I owed you guys a breakdown of my journey and thank you all for the help.

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congratulations on your twin pregnancy! How exciting! Happy and Healthy 9 months!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

What a great story!! Congratulations.

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Posted by curiousO

Congratulations on your twin pregnancy! How exciting! Happy and Healthy 9 months!

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Congratulations!!!!!

It always wonderful to hear the success stories. As you know all to well, that every month that a test comes up negative, hope diminishes a little bit more. Thank you for sharing your story.

Happy & Healthy 9 months!!!!

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Posted by RGEC47

Congratulations!!!!!

It always wonderful to hear the success stories. As you know all to well, that every month that a test comes up negative, hope diminishes a little bit more. Thank you for sharing your story.

Happy & Healthy 9 months!!!!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY & HEALTHY 9 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

What a wonderful post! Congratulations to you and wishing you the best!!

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Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congrats and thanks for sharing your story!!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congrats! Wonderful story! Enjoy every minute!!

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Thanks for sharing your story. It's stories like these that restore many of us with hope and possibly talk us off the ledge, too. Wishing you all the best!!!

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Always nice to hear a success story ! Congrats again

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Congratulations!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congrats to you!!!!! Have a Happy & Healthy 9 months!

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Great news!!!
Happy and healthy remaining months!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congratulations!!! What a great story! A happy and healthy 9 months to you!!!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

Congratulations!!!

Happy and Healthy 9 months!!!

Re: I feel like I owe you girls a huge Thank You!!! You all helped me even though u may not have known

thank you ladies again!!!!




to all of you!!!!!