Our Infertilty Story – Part 1

Pregnant with Triplets at 6 weeks.

6 Week Ultrasound – Triplets

6 Weeks Ultrasound

I once started a blog on another blog site but I didn’t really talk in depth about my life. It was more of the fluff stuff. My life for the last 4 years have been quite a physical and emotional rollercoaster. Someone suggested to me that blogging about how it feels daily to be the mother of triplets might be a good thing for me, and on the flip side, maybe I might be able to reach out to others who may be going through similar life experiences. So here’s my story:

My husband and I tried for six years to have a baby. Within the first three years, we did all the usual basic first steps of infertility treatment. We had a Hysterosalpingogram (HSG) to rule out any blockage in my fallopian tubes. That came up normal. Then I had a laparoscopy surgery to rule out endometriosis. They found one of my ovaries had attached itself to the uterine wall, my fallopian tubes were a little irritated and that I had mild endometriosis. They repaired the ovary and the endometriosis during the surgery. After that, we moved into doing inseminations using the drug clomid to help produce eggs within my ovaries. I think we did about four rounds of that. By now, we were about 4 1/2 years into trying to conceive and I had just had it. I was so burnt out on trying to have a baby and then I just quit trying because I emotionally couldn’t take it anymore to see that negative sign on the pregnancy test each month.

Around September of 03, we decided to try again. The fertility specialist recommended that I quit my job because it was really a very stressful job and stress can often play into infertility. That didn’t work either. So finally, in March of 2004, we agreed to give In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) a try. We, along with our fertility specialist, decided to put four embryos back into my womb. He stated that, along with my age of 30, I had less than 5% chance of 3 of the 4 embryos attaching. Well, they did. I’ll never forget the day of our first ultrasound to see how many babies there were. The doctor said, “There’s one and there’s the other one.” We were so excited. “Twins!”, we cheered. Then the doctor got quiet, probed for a second and announced, “There’s another one!”. My husband almost fell to the floor. And of course all he could think about was what kind of car we should get. He loves cars.

 

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