Firstly I hope this post doesn’t upset anyone, I’ve been in that position and chosen many a time not to open these.
After a very quick labour and terrifying emergency section, my lucky egg arrived yesterday morning. We chose not to find out the sex (we didnt care either way!), and despite being convinced it was a boy, baby Florence arrived at 5.34am.
She was the surprised pregnancy that happened just as we’d picked a donor and paid for eggs. I was waiting for my period to arrive and it never did. Surprise is an understatement. I’d had four failed rounds of IVF, never had anything to freeze and didn’t even get to transfer on my last cycle. Our consultant said my chances were <5%. My periods have always been wildly irregular and I could never track ovulation. My left tube is blocked and I have a uterine septum. I never even entertained the idea of a natural pregnancy, that was just something that happened to other people.
But I was wrong. Sometimes miracles do happen. I didn’t really grasp the reality of being pregnant and didnt let myself believe it, something which I regret now in hindsight. Yesterday morning wasn’t quite the peaceful entrance to the world we’d hoped for; an excruciatingly quick labour with the midwife pulling the emergency switch and the room filling with people taking me into theatre before I knew what was happening, and baby being whisked off to scbu before I could touch her, but she is safe now and improving by the hour. I finally held her late last night and cried. I told her the lucky egg story, I will probably tell her that story for a long time yet.
I am eternally grateful for the position I’m in. I spent so long thinking this would never happen and I’m not taking a minute of it for granted. I won’t be disappearing from this forum either, I am still rooting for so many others and truly hope everyone gets their miracles soon too xxx
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This is one of my favourite posts I've seen in a while. I know you had many times of despair over a long period of time and those times were really tough. I hope your new addition brings you so much joy and helps soothe those difficult memories. Congratulations to you and the family x x
Congrats! I know how you feel.. I am 8w but worries daily if baby is growing. I joked about getting an ultrasound machine but of course that is impossible because I am not a trained sonographer anyway. I have vaginismus so I think I probably will end up with caesarean delivery. But now the daily worries are killing me...I didn't have any sx during tww so I was surprised to find out I had bfp! Sometimes things happen when you least expect it.
Your post brought tears to my eyes. How beautiful that you got the happy ending (or really I should say beginning!) you deserve. Enjoy the cuddles with your sweet lucky egg, and I hope you have plenty of suppprt while you begin recovery. Xxxx
This is so lovely, sending huge congrats on your beautiful baby daughter. After such a tough journey and all the heartache over many years your story is proof that miracles do happen. hope you are both doing well. xx
Thank you for all your kind responses, apologies it took me a while to get back. We were in hospital for 6 days, I had an infection and baby was in SCBU for three days until she could join me on the ward. Healing from the section has been incredibly painful, I’m only just starting to get any mobility back.
The mental trauma of it all is going to take longer to get over, and both my partner and I are going for counselling. Our baby almost died, we are both struggling with the ‘what ifs’, and the last few days I’ve become incredibly down replaying it all in my head. I imagined it so many times before she was born, being handed her and cuddling her for the first time but instead it was 12 hours before I could see her. Waiting to find out if she was brain damaged and blaming myself for not getting to the hospital sooner. I can see the midwife pulling the emergency switch over and over again.
We will be having follow ups in paediatrics over the coming weeks but she is on the mend. I’m grateful she won’t remember any of it and ultimately all that matters is that she is healthy.
Sounds really traumatic NemoFish so glad to hear little one is on the mend but I imagine it has been absolutely gruelling both the physical and the mental side. Go easy on yourselves and take good care x x
Congratulations, she's absolutely beautiful and I love the lucky egg story.
We were in a similar position. Seven years of infertility, two ivf rounds, the first ending in miscarriage and the second no eggs. We were getting ready for my third and final round when I fell pregnant naturally aged 38.
Two years later my own lucky egg got a little sister!
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