Perserverance pays off,12 yrs in the making,BUBBAs on the way!"Our Journey,Our Story"
Hi everyone.
I would love to share my great news with you all, and maybe give some hope and inspiration to others. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this will happen with everyone, but I would like to share this with you all in the hope that others receive this great news one day like we have. I'm so excited and happy :-)
Ok, so a bit of history first. My hubby and I have been trying to conceive for 12 years, having gone through lots of fertility treatments, including IVF and 3 miscarriages. Speaking of my wonderful hubby, he has just been the BEST through all of this. I have told him to leave me soooo many times cause it's me with the infertility problem (I have PCOS). But he has been my tower of strength and has gotten me through some very hard times and has always been there for me. He has always said he would never leave me no matter what, cause I'm the love of his life. With or without kids, he wants to grow old with me. I REALLY couldn't ask for a better hubby. I love him so very much and I am a very lucky girl to have him in my life. We both can see why people split up though, going through such a hard roller coaster of emotions along with any losses of babies or any infertility issues in general. But one good thing has come out of all of this heartache and that is the closer bond we now share together. It's not something I wish anyone would have to go through to get that bond, but for us it has fortunately only made us stronger and our love for each other even more than we thought we could have.
So this year has been a great year! We got married earlier this year (after being together for 13 years) and I have lost a LOT of weight and begun feeling great. After getting married we decided to come off the pill (was on it for PCOS to regulate my cycles and had been having a break for 2 years while trying to conceive) to see what would happen with my cycles as every time I would come off the pill, I would bleed 24/7. After many years of different doctors/specialists/tests (this was in the early days and they didn't realize about the insulin resistant back then) my wonderful IVF doctor (discovered while he was overseas ) found out I was insulin resistant. He put me on Metformin to stop the bleeding and that it did!! Then to discover with much shock for the FIRST time EVER after coming off the pill, that my 1st and 2nd cycles were spot on every 38 days. By my 3rd cycle I started to wonder if I was ovulating by myself for the very 1st time as well. So I started taking my morning temp & recorded it on an online charting graph and got a great reading that led me to believe I had ovulated. So as time went on & having already been pregnant before (even though I had previously miscarried), I knew what embryo embedding felt like and I felt like this was occurring again, so my hubby and I started getting excited. We took a home pregnancy test and we were soooooo shocked and happy that it came up with a faint 2nd line (it was very faint but definitely there). We were that excited that we went around to my Mum and Dad's to show them. This was 11pm at night and they were already in bed asleep after their long days at work, but were more than thrilled we had woken them up with our great news. Anyway, as the days went on I kept doing a test each day and as each day went by it got darker and darker (I was still in disbelief after all this time of trying).
So off we headed to the GP and it wasn't until I got the POSITIVE results off her that I could believe it was true. AFTER 12 LONG years of trying we had FINALLY CONCEIVED NATURALLY!!!!. That was the best news we could have ever heard at that stage of our lives and as you could imagine, the HUGE amount of emotions hubby and I felt at that very moment was just the greatest.
We have had a few early scans with this bubba and with each scan we've been so terrified after seeing our other baby's heart beating away at one scan and then going back again only to see our baby had passed away. It's very hard not to worry at each scan. I wish it wasn't the case, but it is for us. We have now had a few scans and all is going well with this bubba.
I'm 15 weeks pregnant and I feel great. This is the furtherest we have gotten in any pregnancy. We still can't help worrying, but that feeling is subsiding as each day goes by. I'm sooo excited for our up & coming 20 week scan. I have a cute little baby bump happening now and I just, LOVE IT!!!
So all in all, this 12 years of trying to conceive has been a HUGE roller coaster, emotionally, financially and psychically. But not giving up hope and taking time out when we needed, is what has gotten us through and has made us who we are today. And we now have our LONG awaited precious baby on the way.
I now have the confidence to share this news with you all and I hope it may help others out there as well, especially those who might be suffering with PCOS or infertility issues themselves.
Thankyou for reading this, I know it's a long one but our story is one I felt I needed to share.
