Last Minute Decision
First of all let me tell you a little bit about myself, my husband (whom I'll refer to from now on as JR)and our infertility saga. We were married on June 22, 2002 and started trying to concieve a baby that very night. Since then we have gone through two rounds of clomid, 5 failed IUI's and one failed IVF. I've had every test under the sun as has JR and we are technically refered to as 'unexplained'.
Our 1st failed IVF cycle was just this past August. I took time off from my job - which ironically is that of managing a maternity boutique and a whole other blog subject - for two months leading up to the IVF. I did acupuncture, yoga and reiki once a week. I quit drinking alcohol and caffine. I stayed away from anything that would cause me stress and basically just did nothing all summer in hopes that by being my healthiest and being stress free my body would respond by getting pregnant. I mean how hard can it be? Really - people get pregnant every day?! I had tried every other trick in the book to no avail and now that we were trying the 'big gun' of IVF it should be a no brainer. Right? Wrong! I was so wrong and devestated that it did not work. The RE suggested waiting a cycle (we were able to only freeze two embryos) and then try another fresh cycle so that if that did not work we would have more frozen embryos to work with. Well today was the day I was supposed to start taking the suppression drugs for the next fresh cycle and last night I really freaked out about going back into another IVF cycle. All along I knew I was getting ready to do one but decided not to prepare myself with all the hollistic things and just live my life normal as opposed to what I did over the summer. I still had limited wine and caffine but I maintained a healthy diet. I think that last night I just realized I was not ready to jump back into the emotional rollercoaster and the poking and proding and the stress that comes with an IVF cycle. I'm also just so scared to have another failed cycle - I'm not sure I can handle that again.
JR and I decided to try on our own for the next few months and look into IVF #2 in January.
I should mention that among all the tests I've had I did request Immune testing from my RE and it came back that I have a gene mutation that is pretty common apparently. This gene mutation means that I 'possibly' have blood clotting issues which can inhibit implantation and that I could possibly have low folate levels. Apparently the two years worth of pre-natals is not enough. So in additon to the pre-natatls I was prescribed 4 milligrams of folic acid plus a low dose adult asprin. I started that treatment a month ago and JR and I hope that by trying on our own along with the extra vitamins and asprin we might get lucky. Wouldn't that be just a hoot if it happened naturally after all this time?


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*Sigh* I hate to say this, but welcome to the "club" - not because we don't want you of course, but because we know it's hard to be here. I'm looking forward to seeing your posts...
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