Post by officerofthelaw on Mar 3, 2015 3:26:49 GMT -5
My name is Amber and I have been married to my wife for almost 7 years (married in California 2008) and have been together for a little over 8 years. Kids were always a must for us but we wanted to get to know each other completely before bringing a life into this world. Our goal is to not have our child go through a broken home process. That is the single most important thing to both of us, which is why we waited so long to have a child. We also wanted to do a lot of traveling and have been fortunate enough to do so, in and out of the country. We started trying in July of 2014 and started with medicated (clomid) IUI's. However we did three IUI's at an OBGYN office and she really had no clue on what she was doing, we wasted a lot of money and time. We then made the decision to move to a fertility clinic called CARE Fertility, which had been recommended to me by a Sergeant at my work. We then tried 3 more IUI's which cost us even more money because we were using an actual fertility clinic (2 medicated, 2 not). After we were unsuccessful with the 6 IUI's we decided to take a month off and get prepared for IVF. Although we paid several thousands of dollars on this process, we just found out on 2-27-2015 that we are pregnant. We have our first beta on 3-4-2015 but the pregnancy tests the last four days tell us the great news:) We are super excited but cautiously optimistic. For those of you who have not gotten to the point of IVF, I wanted to explain my process so that it could help with a decision when you get to that crossroad. Without all the advice and postings that I read on other's blogs (THE BUMP) I would have not gotten through this process. Emotional support through this process outside of your partner is extremely important, even if you will never meet the person giving the advice. This process for me has been super emotional which is not normal for my personality. So here is my IVF story:
I started using Gonal-F (225) and Microdose Ovidrel. and my egg retrieval was on 2-18-2015 and 11 embryo's were retrieved. Of those 11, 9 survived the fertilization process. I immediately began oral medications (I can't remember what and already threw away the containers) up until I ran out. On 2-23-2015 I was given my 5 day embryo report and had to make the tough decision on how many embryos (max is 2) that I wanted to place back in. I was standing firm on my decision to place 2 embryos back in until the doctor advised that the quality of my embryos are AA which are not common to see in the labs. He advised of all the risks and complications and against what I wanted, I ended up only putting one back in. I was able to freeze 7 at AA quality which is really good. Up to the point of IVF all the fertility tests I went through showed that nothing was wrong with me. My follicles were dropping, my ovaries were open, IUI's just didn't work for me. The cost of the IVF alone was $8500.00 and then the medication was $2500.00 which by the way I have approximately $1200.00 worth of medication left (boo to wasting money). The medical tests that I had to pay for and the storage fee for the sperm was $1000.00. Although we paid a bunch of money, now I see why it was all worth it. I am a police officer and my wife is a stay at home wife, soon to be a stay at home mom (I am having the baby). We live in Texas and plan one day to live in Florida. We go to Florida every year for our anniversary but this year we will be going for a Baby Moon!
If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.
