Some people may recognise my backstory from the Fertility Network forum. I didn’t think it was appropriate to post this news there as I’ve read things like this when I’ve been at my lowest and found it incredibly upsetting.
I had done 4 IVF cycles, with one CP, never achieved anything decent enough to freeze, and my numbers were poor. My last collection resulted in nothing to transfer and I was devastated. My AMH had plummeted, and I was given a <5% chance of success with my own eggs on another cycle. We decided to move onto donor eggs, which all moved very quickly. My clinic had no waiting list, so we’d picked our donor and paid for 6 eggs, it was just a case of waiting for my period to arrive so I could get started. Except it didn’t!
Three hysterical dye stealers later, I was in a total state of shock. I rang my clinic in tears and even they hadn’t heard of this prior to a DE cycle. I’ve not told anyone, we are keeping it to ourselves until 12 weeks. My family think I’ve delayed our DE treatment because of work.
I had a small amount of bleeding last week and was referred to the EPU, where yesterday we got to see our baby’s heartbeat fluttering away. It was just unreal. I never ever thought I would be here. I was in bits, even the medical student present had a tear in her eye when I explained everything! As I had no idea when I ovulated, they measured it to be about 6+2. I have another scan next week with my clinic.
This has just been the shittest, most expensive journey ever, but for now I am enjoying every second, (despite wanting to throw up all day!). I never thought I would feel good like this, I still can’t believe I had one egg that was a fighter after all this!