I am Melissa G. This blog was created to preserve what is left of my sanity during almost four years of TTC. Unbeknownst to us, our journey began in the summer of ought seven. I say it all old timey like that because it literally feels like that long ago that all this began, and I now refer to that time as an entirely different era.
We were diagnosed with Severe Male Factor Infertility in December, 2008. After MUCH deliberation we chose Donor Insemination over IVF w/ICSI; partially because we were concerned about the implications of the severity of my husbands diagnosis and how they might impact our potential children, and partially because it was the most financially attainable. Our insurance covers NOTHING for Infertility, not even diagnostic testing. (Bastards!). We spent the last half of 2009 completing six dIUI's with nary a second line to show for it. Our RE at the time and the second opinion we got were both dumbfounded, because my charts looked so great... Which brings us to RE#3, whom after a phone consult diagnosed me with Ovulatory PCOS , later confimed with an u/s (different than Classic PCOS), Metformin to the rescue. Additional blood tests later revealed MTHFR and elevated Natural Killer Cells... Fantastic.
After taking a yearlong break we moved forward with IVF (with my husbands sperm!) in January 2011. Our plan was thwarted by a big ugly cyst on my right ovary that developed between the birth control pills and Lupron. The cyst finally ruptured and we were given the green light SEVEN weeks later. And just less than a month after that we would see our very first BFP, EVER. And in late December we welcomed our amazing baby girl.
I'm a Pisces. I love hockey, blogging, and the ALI Community.
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