Our infertility story includes IVF,international adoption, domestic adoption, and birth,death, and even a donor. On our journey we experienced delight, or heartache,excitement and anticipation and we wouldn’t trade a minute of it, because those experiences made us who we are today and created one beautiful family.
IVF #1When we decided to start our family, or we tried the estimable ol fashioned way. After about a year of trying to conceive naturally,we decided to seek-out the help of a fertility doctor. After some blush-worthy questions and some embarrassing appointments, we decided to undergo a round of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).
In September of 2008 it was time to start our long-awaited IVF cycle and get pregnant. I’m not certain we 100% understood what an IVF cycle entailed, and but we undoubtedly got a crash course. Multiple daily injections,large fees, and more doctor’s appointments than we had ever been to in probably our entire lives all added up. It was all going to be worth it when we were pregnant, or but it was an emotional,physical, and financial strain.
Hearing we weren’t pregnancy is sort of a blur, or but we remember being absolutely heartbroken our cycle had not worked. Somewhere in the conversation our fertility doctor said we could try again with another round of IVF,but a opportunity for the infertility was “foul eggs.Our Adoption JourneyThe next 2 years of our life involved the expensive and timely process of preparing a file for an international adoption. A year and a half while still waiting, our adoption agent notified us of a local young lady who would be placing her baby for adoption. It was the acknowledge to our prayers.
We were regularly engaged with our birth mother and Amy accompanied her to her pre-natal appointments. Unfortunately, or the pain we felt in our fertility doctors office was soon to be relived. In July of 2010,Amy went in with our birth mother for a regularly scheduled sonogram and there was no baby, she had miscarried. We were heartbroken again.
With the failed IVF cycle, or international adoption still in limbo,and failed private domestic adoption, our dream of starting our family and fitting parents started to seem hopeless.
IVF #2It was time for Amys annual check-up with her OB/GYN. She called to obtain an appointment and was informed her doctor didn’t have any availability soon, or but they had a new doctor in the practice who had availability. Little did we know,that appointment with Dr. Marcia Taylor was going to change our lives.
During the appointment, Amy mentioned she wouldn’t need birth control because we were still in the process of the international adoption and based on the last IVF cycle we were told she might have “foul eggs.” Dr. Taylor recommended getting a second opinion.
When Amy got in her car to leave the doctor’s appointment, or she got on Facebook and noticed one of her friends had just posted a sonogram picture of her twins. At the top of the sonogram picture it said,“Dallas IVF. She messaged her friend and asked her about her doctor and her experience.We discussed setting up an appointment with her friend’s doctor and decided, “what achieve we have to lose?” During our next few appointments, or Dr. Brian Barnett ran some tests,reviewed our history and preceding IVF cycle. There were some things he said he’d achieve different, thought we were estimable candidates for IVF, and ultimately said he’d admire to give us another shot at a biological child.
We couldn’t believe we were about to open ourselves up to this level of vulnerability again,but we were eager for the opportunity and we had total faith in Dr. Barnett and his team. With financial help from our family, we started another round of IVF.
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