Any Infertility Sucess Stories?

[Pat_Elliott]

In retrospect, that wasn't the Reader's Digest version...


Pat

 

[kamgen]

Dh and I tried to get pregnant for about a year, went through tons of test to no avail. I took Clomid for awhile and all it did was make me sick and it didn't seem to help my problem.
Now we are in the process of adopting. We are so excited to be preparing to bring a child into our home. We always talked about adopting. Our original plans were to have a child and adopt, but it isn't working out that way. So we are now waiting for our adoption.
Good luck to you in whatever you decide. It is a hard thing to deal with. There are friends and family who still tell me I will get pregnant, who ask why we decided to not do IVF, etc....but I have come to realize that this is not about them...it is about me and my dh...our lives, our bodies, our choices. We have also come to the conclusion that we don't necessarily need to have a baby...we want a family...families are built by love more than by blood. At least that is how I see it....and we are excited for that day to come.

Best wishes to you!
Kamy

 

[katerkat]

I don't have a story (we're two years away from even trying) but I want to wish you luck! I have a friend who is starting Clomid this month, and we're all very hopeful that this will work for her! So I hope you also have success!

 

[Denine]

This is probably not the success story you are looking for. After 4 years of trying and 4 years of waiting to adopt, we brought home our beautiful little girl last October. She is 8-1/2 months old and is a miraculous gift from God. I do not feel cheated out of a biological child. Most of the time, we forget she is adopted!

 

[Hnymoon@Dixie]

Thanks for a glimpse into your personal lives & feelings. My DH & I have been trying for 3 years. We're still trying. Your stories have brought me to tears. Its nice to know that I am not alone & there are "fairytail" endings in real life, too. Please keep us in your prayers.

 

[Disneynut11676]

Thank you to everyone for your prayers and pd. DH and I are happy to know that there are people out there to talk to and know what it is like to go through what we are. I am touched by all of your stories. I am glad that I seem to have found the support group that I have been searching for, in my fellow DISers. Hnymoon@Dixie -- I will say a prayer for you and DH each night, if you want to chat -- pm me, I'd be more than happy to have someone to go through everything with.

Michelle

 

[TINKTWINS]

You really just never know what god will send your way.

My SIL tried for years, even fertility drugs although I seem to think she may not have tried them long enough to see any results. She even asked me to consider surrogacy. She had the irregular periods ect. They ended up adopting my nephew when he was 9 mos old. Hes now about to turn 7. When DN was about 2 they decided to adopt another child, Marks half brother. Well as fate would have it, the father of that child was fighting custody from prison no less, and they wanted my SIL and BIL to foster that child until he could have him. Well she just couldnt handle having him and then giving him up, she was already preparing for him to live with them permanantly. Well after he was gone, lo and behold, God worked in that mysterious way, and she found out she was pregnant all on her own!!. She had an ok time being pregnant, everyone is so different when they carry their babies, I prayed alot for her. He was pretty heathly as an infant, but we did find out last year he is deaf in one ear. But hes 3 1/2 now and doing great. Oh and if your successful and you think well I dont have to worry about birth control after the baby is born, because you had a difficult time getting pregnant the first time, think again, Zack has a brother Tyler that is 11 mos. younger than him!!


Good luck and some baby PD for you

 

[suzannen]

Michelle, I was never on Clomid, but my story is similar to others. After trying 1 1/2 years, we went to a fertility specialist. After all the tests, they came back that my DH had an extremely low sperm count and weren't hopeful of our chances. Our only chance was to attempt artificial insemination twice and then proceed straight to IVF. We quit worrying about it while we waited for our appointment for the artificial insemination and low and behold, I was pregnant. Even the doctor was shocked.

Likewise, one of my friends and co-workers, after 3 years of being on Clomid and having had two unsuccessful IVF treatments, had her doctor suddenly realize she had never been vaccinated for Rubella (German Measles) and how dangerous it would be if she was exposed while pregnant. He gave her the vaccine and told her they would have to wait 3 months to try another IVF because of the vaccine. While off everything, she suddenly became pregnant. The fertility doctor yelled at her "How did this happen?" She answered "if you don't know, maybe you shouldn't be a fertility doctor!" They worried her whole pregnancy about effects from the vaccine, but everything was fine and their daughter just turned 15 months old.

Best of luck to you (and to Hnymoon@Dixie). It can be such a painful, lonely and stressful time and only folks who have gone through it can really understand all those emotions boiling inside of you.

 

[CEDmom]

Michelle,

I did clomid, fertinex and donor egg over the span of 3 years. I was 34 when I started. We do have a miracle and she came from the other side of the world in China. She's more than we ever hoped and dreamed for. I wish you all the best. Dreams really do come true just not always in the way you imagine.

 

[ahutton]

I'm another PCOS Mommy... I was diagnosed in my early 20s but had a doctor that took a proactive approach and did laser surgery to clean the cysts off and put me on birth control pills to wait until I was ready for a family. I met DH - told him up front I may have challenges with babies and he was totally comfortable and we would face whatever came.

After we had been married 3 years we decided it was time to try. I quit taking pills, took my vitamins and was lucky that 3 months later I got preganant with Caitlyn, now 3 1/2. Just after her first birthday we found we were expecting again, but a month or so later I lost the baby. Dr said PCOS is likely acting up, after being off pills for so long my hormones were out of whack. She closely monitored me getting pregnant again, and now Chloe is 14 months old.

I've since been to a PCOS specialist, and the doctor is actively involved in a huge research study - for those of you diagnosed do lots of research. It is more than an ovarian thing. I'm finally getting all of the symptoms under control and feeling good! And I have two beautiful babies.

 

[Jenn]

Close friends of ours tried for 3 years and were finally successful using Clomid. Then when their son was about 5 months old, they found out she was pregnant again. They now have a 2 year old (next month) and a 7 month old.

 

[jsmith]

my SIL is the oldest of 8 children and she wanted to have that many herself. No problem getting PG with the 1st one but when he was a year they decided to try again. They tried and tried and did fertility treatments for both of them-finally the DR told her she was alway meant to have only one child and she needed to stop beating herself up. DN is 13-his two little sisters are 6 and 4-as soon as she accepted that she would never have another child and stopped pressuring herself she got PG again.

 

[Disneynut11676]

Thanks to everyone for the stories and encouragement. I guess we will just keep our fingers crossed and hope that the clomid will eventually work for us. If not, adoption is definitely an option that we would look into. Any prayers or PD would be much appreciated. We will keep all of you that are having difficulties in our thoughts and prayers.

Michelle

 

[angie'smom]

HI,
I also went through all of the infertility problelms. I wasn't ovulating very often. The infertility doctor performed some tests on me also. He found out that I was having spasms in the fallopian tubes, or that is what the test apparently showed. It is the test where they put a red dye in to see where it ends up. The doctor also checked my husband's sperm count and discovered that it was quite low. The doctor told him to change from briefs to boxer shorts. That seemed to help him increase the sperm count. Then the doctor wanted to do surgery to see why there seemed to be some kind of a blockage in either one tube or both tubes. When I awoke in the recovery room, the doctor informed me that one tube was blocked at the end where the egg would travel and he said he opened that tube. The other tube was blocked at the uterus end and could not be opened with surgery. He reassured me that I only needed one good tube. It took me 2 years before I had Angela and 16and 1/2 months later I had Paula. I was 11 days shy of my 34th birthday when I had Angela. Oh, and I also took my basal temperature every morning and recorded it. What I found very depressing was that every month when I had to get checked by the doctor before he would give me another dose of Clomid,I would be sitting in the waiting room knowing that I wasn't pregnant and many woman in the office were.

 

[Hnymoon@Dixie]

Originally posted by Disneynut11676
Hnymoon@Dixie -- I will say a prayer for you and DH each night, if you want to chat -- pm me, I'd be more than happy to have someone to go through everything with.

Michelle

Thanks! I never really allow myself to think about it. Its still too painful, therefore, I don't really talk about it. I am a "keep it bottled up" person. But I will keep it in mind. I will pray for you as well. PLEASE PM me if you need to & if your "status" changes!!!! I'm not on the boards very much, so it may take me a few days to get back to you, though. THanks again for your thoughtfulness.

 

[spn]

my wife and I also went through all the infertility issues. We feel for what you are going through. WE did finally get pregant and thanks to progesterone my wife could carry the baby through the difficult early times. My only recommendation is to try (it is quite tought) to not focus all your thoughts on this. Many drs we talked to told us that stress is a big factor in this. Also talk to friends you may be quite surprised who has gone through this. we certainly were.


PS My parents (45 years ago) were told they could NEVER biologically have children. They adopted my brother. Low and behold they concieved me and another brother over a span of 3 years.

Good Luck & PD your way