Success at 5th round (6th embryo)

[Ajtart]

Trigger warning*** I never thought in a million years that I'd be the one to write such a post. Reading posts like this one filled me with hope and happiness despite feeling overwhelmed with sadness and despair between numerous IVF rounds.

Our precious baby girl arrived on 19th February at 40weeks +1day. 🩷

My journey has finally ended after a long hard 5 and a half years of setbacks, frustration, hopes that become quickly obliterated and obsessively reading to gain an understanding as to why this was happening to me. I was/am unexplained infertility and all initial tests came back 'normal'.

Please stay strong and reach out to those closest to you. Help educate friends and family to understand your situation as best you can (this is an ongoing battle with my mum who's already asked when I'm having a sibling as now I must be able to have a baby naturally?!). I got through by taking one step at a time. I reluctantly came to accept not being a parent by the time we did our final 5th round. Our final round was actually our 'worst round' in terms of results with 6 eggs collected and only 1 fertilised. We were told by the embryologist that 3 eggs were damaged/had no yolk which was only evident because we'd paid for ICSI. Anyway this one fertilised egg which was transferred on day 3 ended up working! I'm still in disbelief tbh and spent the whole pregnancy struggling to accept that it would work out. 9/10 months of being pregnant is not enough time to undue the many years I spent getting my head round the fact I wasn't going to be a parent.

I wish all of you the very best in your journeys and I pray that you get your wishes.

We did mix things up quite a bit along the way as I found out I had inflated natural killer cells so was on steroids, my second clinic also added in blood thinners as I had 'sticky blood' and extra progesterone. All of these things I had to research and fight for which was exhausting. Good luck and I hope you find the strength and means to pursue every path on your journeys x

[Asha82]

Congratulations on the birth of your precious baby girl❤️

[Habibi87]

I am so glad that your precious baby is here. You deserve all the happiness 💕

[Tamaa]

Lovely news! Congratulations 🎉

[Millbanks]

This is such a wonderful post - I'm so pleased it worked out for you. I had a similar journey and had to fight every step of the way for the treatment that finally worked.

Wishing you so much joy with your family xx

[Rol81]

congratulations, always lovely to hear a happy ending ❤️

[Endofitall]

lovely news. Sounds similar to me so gives me hope. Congrats!

[CarlottaD27]

This is wonderful news after such a tough journey! X

[AJKP]

Awww huge congratulations, enjoy every moment of this ❤️ xxx

[Kiara89]

Congratulations and thank you for sharing

[JB124]

congratulations! Such a lovely post and thank you for sharing . gives a lot of hope to someone like me who is also ‘unexplained’ with all test normal. Wishing you all the happiness with your family x

[Batsford]

Huge congratulations! It is such a gruelling, lonely and long journey! I don’t think friends or family can ever really understand or empathise fully. I hope you enjoy spending time with your baby x

[FlowerGem115]

Congratulations, this is a really lovely post, you have been through a lot and deserve this happiness. Thank you for sharing as it does give hope xx

[Kay2024]

I love your story it is exactly the same as mine i thought i had written it whilst i was reading it you were spot on, even down to the transfers, meds am on all same had me 5th transfer on the 18th march frozen 4ba just the waiting sends you crazy. Have no symptoms at all an just scared an trying to stay positive an my family are great but dont understand my dad asks me when are you having this baby every day😭😭It drives me insane i have no patience at all right now come to the end an think of what all of us on here have been through all u want is some slack, support an empathy. I am nearly 44 an doing IVF on me own so really want it to work so bad, i wish i knew about this forum 2 years ago when i started this process, its emotionally and financially draining and my heart goes out to each and every single individual going through it, IVF is not easy journey its the hardest thing i have ever endured an hopefully i get my baby that will be the best thing ever 🙏🤞

[Ajtart in reply to Kay2024]

When do you find out? I have everything crossed for you. With my final successful round, I had no symptoms at all. I never felt pregnant even when I started showing a bump. IVF really tests your emotional resilience. I was lucky to have a few really supportive friends who had fertility issues in their own right. The ones who didn't understand or made strange comments, I chose not to share as much with x it's so important to share stories on here as it makes you feel less lonely x

[Kay2024 in reply to Ajtart]

I admire u so much and everyone on here it certainly does test everything you have in you but you have given me so much hope as i could relate to your story and journey so much. I find out good Friday so i am hoping that is a positive and it will be good news🤞i hope ur enjoying being a mum an congratulations on your baby girl its amazing news an such a inspiration to carry on when u feel like you want to give up, its a emotional rollercoaster moods change regarding it daily. I am happy i can talk on here to people who are going through it as we all understand one another and all get are individual and unique stories xx

[Ajtart in reply to Kay2024]

Thank you for your lovely response. I really hope it works out for you xx

[Kay2024 in reply to Ajtart]

Thank you so much xx