Hi Everyone!!!

Well, we're back from Melbourne (with the weather) and everything went great!

Before I tell you what happened, I guess I need to give you a little background, as I haven't yet gotten around to starting a TTC journal!!!

Basically, to cut a long story short, when I gave birth to Luke almost 9yrs ago, I had to have an emergency c/s after being in unprogressive labour for 56 and a half hrs (yes, it was lovely
Anyway, it was in a small public hospital, my doctor was overseas and I had whoever was on duty do the surgery.
Seemingly, he didn't do a very good job - I was "sewn up the wrong way" (my gyn's words after he came back from being overseas and almost had a heart attack once finding out what happened), and both myself and all of the other women that had c/s that day ended up with a major infection in our c/s wounds.
It was extremely bad, I was on antibiotics for about a month afterward, and had to have a nurse come to our house twice a day for approx 3 weeks after I came home from hospital to attend to the wound.
9 yrs later, I still haven't had any feeling at all in that area (not even the numbness most women have), and all of my docotrs have told me since that the scar will need to be re cut and fixed before I gain feeling back.
I've been told to wait until my next baby to have this done, so as to not make the wall of the womb any weaker than what it is because of all of this.

ANYWAY! Theres some history for you... as soon as I walked into Antonias rooms, she knew exactly what was wrong.
She said that the nerve endings have never met back up in that area, and all of the meridien points (think acupuncture) have been "cut off" in the area, so the whole area at the moment has no life.
She said there is no way that a baby could grow there ATM beacuse that area needs to be warm and "alive".
She said that this can cause the eggs to be of lesser quality, too, because the whole area surrounding it its lazy, and so my ovaries aren't working to their potential. It also explains why the chinese herbs & acupuncture helped with our last IVF cycle, but she said my uterus would never accept the embryos back until everything in the area is restored.
She is confident she can fix it so I can fall pregnant and carry to term, and then once I have a second c/s, the surgeons can fix the scar surgically.
After the consult, I had a session of pulse therapy, where she said I would feel a "buzz" through my body, and she would start to put some life back into the area around my scar.
She left me for about 20 mins and told me when she came back I would have the first signs of feeling back there again...
She had both DH & Luke feel the pulses as well (pretty amazing), and when she came back and felt the area, I had feeling there!!!
Its the first time in 9 yrs that I have felt anything there at all.
She gave both DH & myself a tonic each mixed with specific herbs for each of us, and also some capsules to take (her own formula) for the blocked tubes.
She has asked us not to do any IVF for the time being - She is confident we can fall pregnant naturally, and has asked us to give her 4 months....
I am just so happy, and am extremely confident that this has got to be as good as anything we have tried so far!!!
She also believes I would benefit from a few sessions of hypnotherapy to help my subconcious deal with the trauma of Lukes birth & any negative energy about the failed IVF cycles.
I'm going to look into this in the next few weeks.
Antonia is going to be in Sydney once a month, too, seeing select patients, and has already told me that she'd like to fit me in for her next visit...

So!!!
All is good with us, and am feeling very positive about everything... time will tell now!!

Sorry this is such a self absorbed post - I wanted to share my happiness with you all, and I have SOOO much to catch up on after 3 days of being away!!!

I'll pop back on later tonight for some personals!!!

Love Holly
xxx