Hi beautiful ladies and gents (if there are any) 😆 ,
I been thinking for a while to post here on how things are getting on after a successful IVF and almost years of infertility but at the same time didn't want to be a triggering post. I was always curious how does people feel after having their babies through IVF. Does pregnancy announcements are getting easier to swallow?! Are you sharing more your journey of having kids now after success!!?
Having my twins - a boy and a girl I felt finally complete. I am enjoying motherhood even though sometimes is a hard job but I think I am managing well as my husband is the only one helping me when he is off work.
Some of you know that I never shared my infertility journey with anyone, it was always discussed between me,my husband and this forum 😁. Now please be aware that my sister and her husband knows about our story as I guessed that they have similar problems. My sister confessed me that they had 3 IVF cycles and 4 transfers and of course no positive results. Exactly that many I had before we been successful. We spent almost a full day telling each other between tears what we both been through...and for the first time I felt that my heart and soul are not that heavy anymore ...but still brakes my heart as I know that she still doesn't have a child that she is praying for. I told her that I will help as much as I can to make her dream come true as I spent 6years to document myself about infertility. Fast forward she went to the same fertility clinic in Spain and she been treated by almost the same great people as I was. Usually she was having 6-7 eggs,now she managed to have 15 eggs on short protocol and 13 mature, 5 blasts (before none)and 3 are PGS normal. I am over the moon for her and hope next transfer somewhere after January she will be successful. I am glad that I have someone that I can freely discuss about my journey without being judged as we both think that you cannot understand fully what we been through unless you experience infertility (so unfortunate).
I don't shake anymore when someone is announcing their pregnancy as I have 2 beautiful rainbow babies. I still don't want to share my journey apart from those who I truly trust (as mentioned above) but IVF left me with scars everywhere... I developed a spasm from so many scans and check ups I had and now I have to have physiotherapy done and some medication to take to make my life easy. Even though IVF sucks I am beyond grateful that it does exist!! Infertility is a disease just like many others that needs to be treated on time.
thank you for reading and baby dust to you all!
much love 😘
PS: no I am not pregnant 😆 and not planning any time soon 😘...I am too scared to have a 3rd child ...grateful for what I have ♥️♥️
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thank you for sharing, so encouraging to read such positive stories.
Sorry about your sister and hope all goes well with her. I’m starting as well and don’t even know what to expect started with injections today so I guess I still have a long way to go.
thank you will keep you guys posted. I guess this the only platform I can share my journey on because I don’t want negativity and don’t want to find myself explaining why we took this route.
i perfectly understand you and no blame for that. It is better this way. I remember when I got pregnant I was telling our close friends that we are expecting twins and their first question was "did you pregnant naturally?!?" my reply was always "of course" little they new what we been through....
So glad to hear about your sister, but I do feel strongly that infertility is certainly not a disease. It is a medical condition but we need not stigmatise it. Just my thoughts ❤️
We kept it to ourselves only telling a few people whilst we were going through it but that was because we didn’t want the pressure of other people waiting to hear of it had worked or not as it was hard enough just the two of us knowing and being disappointed. But now I’ve had him I was very open about it and my social media post at 5 months pg to tell people we were having him (when I felt a little less scared) was a photo of all the needles etc and I literally had so many of my friends (close and not so close) private message me with their own journeys they were on and the same at work my boss told my wider team what I had been going through when he was thanking me on a call for going through all that and delivering a big project for them and the amount of colleagues who phoned and emailed me afterwards to share their experiences was so surprising ! I still get people now messaging me when they are about to begin IVF for tips. On Sunday I was at a kids bday party and my friends sister (who I haven’t really spoken with in years) came up to me to tell me they were starting IVF ‘just like we had’ and said it was great to see our son doing so well as it gave them hope. So I defo think we should shout it from the rooftops as not only did it help me to get it off my chest but it defo seems to have helped others and normalise it a bit for them as well as show them it can work.
In saying that we are now trying for a sibling and we have literally told one other person who pried it out of us and even then it’s been very vague so I think it’s different when you are on the journey to after the journey, or at least it is for us xx
wow so glad for you and pleased to see that you have such a nice people around you, I must admit we are not that lucky. Congratulations for your first baby and hope the next one will come soon. Was lovely to read your story 😍❤️
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