Due to my husband having Cystic Fibrosis we are not able to have children naturally. So from 2009 to 2012 we went through atleast 7 IUI's (Intrauterine Insemination's) at a fertility clinic in Columbus. Every one of those but the very first one failed which turned out to be a chemical pregnancy that ended only a week after we found out we were pregnant. In 2012 we decided to take a break from trying due to the emotional and financial toll it took on us and we just prayed that God would let us know his plan when it was time. In May of 2013 I went to check the mail and there was a package with a card from some of Zack's family who lived out of state. The card said that they were saving of money to help us to try to get pregnant again and so our journey began! With us saving as much as we could and with the help of our family and friends we began the IVF process in February 2014 at Kettering Reproductive Medicine! By that May we had two embryos implanted and became pregnant with twins! We had our two beautiful children in January 2015! The part we didn't really focus on in our blogs before was that we have two frozen embryos left and that takes us up to now!
Back when we started the IVF journey we knew we would have to make a decision as to what to do with any left over embryos. Our options given to us were to either freeze them to be transferred later, adopt them out, donate them to science, or destroy them. I know this is a very personal decision that you make as a couple but for us after having the twins our decision was obvious. These two frozen embryos are just as much our children as our twins are and had the doctors decided differently which two embryos to use first then one of our twins could be a frozen embryo right now. So today we had our consult to begin the frozen embryo transfer!!
It was very surreal to take the kids to where it all began! But it was amazing to take the kids around to meet the doctor and nurses who helped make it all possible!
We met with our same doctor we had before, Dr. Bidwell, and we got to discuss what all the FET process will involve. Basically a frozen embryo transfer (FET) is a cycle where the frozen embryos from our previous IVF cycle are thawed and then transferred back into me. So we will get to skip a lot of what we did last time. It will still involve hormone injections and oral medications but it is still much simpler.
Right now the plan is to call when I began my next cycle at the end of this month and we will begin everything! Once I call I will get my calendar with medications, order bloodwork, and schedule a sonohysterogram (water ultrasound). The ultrasound is to make sure there is no scarring from being pregnant with the twins.
We are very excited to begin this process for our final time! The doctor said we will transfer both embryos but the chance of twins is less likely due to being a frozen cycle. However we will be blessed with what ever God gives us!
We would appreciate everyone's prayers as we begin this process again! You all were such a great support last time and we wanted to continue to keep everyone involved! Thank you all!
